ADOT Uses New Technique to ‘Slide’ New I-40 Bellemont Bridges into Place
PHOENIX – A new technique that basically slides precast bridges into place has greatly reduced delays for the Bellemont community with an Arizona Department of Transportation project replacing spans over Interstate 40 at Transwestern Road west of Flagstaff. Using this technique, which the contractor proposed, allowed crews to replace the bridges during a nine-day closure of Transwestern Road over I-40 rather than having the six to eight months of restrictions required for a traditional bridge...
South Dakota Program To Reduce Roadway Departure Crashes In Winter Weather Wins National Roadway Safety Award
PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) was honored last week in a ceremony on Capitol Hill with a National Roadway Safety Award for the success of its “High Friction Surface Treatment” (HFST) program to address road departure crashes in winter weather. “Safety is always our number one priority, so I’m thrilled that DOT’s innovative approach to reduce crashes during the winter has been recognized at the national level,” said Governor Kristi Noem. “We will continue...
Peapod Co-Founders and Bay Area Investors Headline Coaster Cycles’ Financing
BOSTON, MA- Today, Coaster Cycles announced personal investments from the co-founders of Peapod, Andrew Parkinson and Thomas Parkinson, as well as Bay Area investors John Lyman and Katherine Kennedy and Grant Allen (SE Ventures) in recent financing. As an already profitable company, the investment will support the expansion of Coaster’s Montana based manufacturing facility as well as the growth of Coaster’s existing rental fleets in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco. The funds will also a...
Thompson Named Director of Project Delivery at WSP USA
Industry veteran brings three decades of engineering expertise and leadership to new role managing transportation project delivery and risk management across the U.S. HERNDON, VIRGINIA — Mark Thompson has been named director of project delivery and risk management for transportation and infrastructure at WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. Thompson brings more than 35 years of civil engineering experience to his new role, where he will oversee project...
ACEC Leaders to Represent America’s Engineers on Official Trade Mission to Asia
Washington, DC - Two U.S. engineering industry leaders will accompany Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on a business development mission to Southeast Asia next week. American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) current Board Chair, Mitch Simpler, and Former Board Chair, Manish Kothari, will meet with heads of state, ministry officials, and industry leaders during the week-long tour (November 3-8) of Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. ACEC’s participation in the overseas mission complements t...
Bob Hicks Joins Stantec’s Education Practice
BOSTON, MA: NYSE, TSX:STN: Bob Hicks has joined leading global design firm Stantec as a Senior Project Manager in the education practice. Located in the firm’s Boston office, he will be responsible for growing the higher education portfolio in the US Northeast. Hicks brings more than 30 years of professional experience, helping colleges, universities, and other institutional clients understand, plan, and bring to life their project aspirations. He has been involved in numerous high profile pr...
Autodesk BIM 360 Design Now Offers Anytime, Anywhere, Cloud Collaboration On Projects With Both Infrastructure And Building Features
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announces the expansion of Autodesk BIM 360 Design, Autodesk’s fastest-growing cloud solution, to include Autodesk Civil 3D. With this announcement, Autodesk now offers one of the most comprehensive solutions enabling teams to collaborate on complex projects with horizontal and vertical structures, nearly anytime, anywhere in a single connected cloud platform. Collaboration for Civil 3D, now included with a BIM 360 Design subscriptio...
Rinker Materials™ Goes Deep for LakePoint Sporting Community
EMERSON, Ga. – About 35 miles north of Atlanta along Interstate 75, LakePoint Sporting Community serves as one of the largest and most popular youth travel sports destinations in the country. LakePoint Sporting Community recently partnered with Bartow County and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to construct a two-mile parkway as the complex’s primary transportation corridor with adjacent land for future hotels, restaurants and other amenities. Rinker Materials™ produced more than...
Experts Say Rooftop Solar Energy Can Help Poland Triple PV Output
According to the latest analysis, a quarter of Europe’s electricity needs could be covered by rooftop solar energy. This may be a suitable solution for Poland, which is still the largest consumer of coal in the EU. Initiatives to implement such projects already exist in the country. The report claims that many EU countries can produce levelized solar electricity at a lower cost than retail electricity prices by tapping into rooftops of the already existing real estate, making it a possible so...
American Concrete Institute Announces Winners of FRP Composites Student Competition
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., USA – The American Concrete Institute announces the winners of its Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites Student Competition, held recently at the Concrete Convention and Exposition in Cincinnati, OH, USA. The competition objectives were for students to design, construct, and test a concrete structure reinforced with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) to achieve the optimal load-to-cost ratio, predict the ultimate load, and predict the load that will result in a pisto...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
