Load, Capacity Calculation Errors, Inadequate Peer Review Led to Pedestrian Bridge Collapse
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board determined, during a public board meeting held Tuesday, that load and capacity calculation errors made by FIGG Bridge Engineers, Inc., are the probable cause of the fatal, March 15, 2018, Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami. Contributing to the collapse was Louis Berger’s inadequate peer review, which failed to detect FIGG’s calculation errors in its design of the main span truss member 11/12 nodal region a...
Hotel PACAI in Vilnius Outranks Hotels Designed by Zaha Hadid, Dayana Lee, Neri & Hu in Prestigious Surface Travel Awards
Hotel PACAI, located in Vilnius, Lithuania, was named the winner of this year’s Surface Travel Awards in the category of large international hotels. The 104-room Hotel PACAI was selected out of seven short-listed hotels, and it was the only one listed that is not located in a traditional tourist destination or a metropolis. Nate Storey, Features Director at Surface Media, highlighted the impression the historical details and modern design left upon the award jury. “The jury was extraordi...
OnScale and SoftMEMS Collaborate with Mentor to Announce a New Integrated Workflow for MEMS Digital Prototyping
Leading MEMS companies are adopting the OnScale and SoftMEMS Digital Prototyping solution to massively reduce risk, cost, and time-to-market for new MEMS and sensor products. San Diego, CA – Today, at the MEMS & Sensors Executive Congress – MSEC 2019, OnScale® and SoftMEMS® announced the first truly integrated workflow for MEMS Digital Prototyping combining Cloud Engineering Simulation and Tanner electronic design automation (EDA) tools from Mentor®, a Siemens business. Enabling MEMS Digital...
McGuireWoods Advises Dominion Energy in $2 Billion Recapitalization of Gas Facility
McGuireWoods advised Dominion Energy in a recapitalization of the company’s Cove Point liquefied natural gas facility in Lusby, Maryland, by an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management. The deal calls for Dominion Energy to transfer a 25 percent, non-controlling equity interest in Cove Point to Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners, a fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management, in exchange for cash consideration of just over $2 billion, excluding working capital. Dominion Energy...
Newark Airport Terminal Redevelopment Reaches Construction Milestone
WSP USA joins Port Authority of NY/NJ to celebrate topping out of Terminal One, the largest design-build project in New Jersey to date. NEWARK, NEW JERSEY — The Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal One Redevelopment Program marked a key milestone today at an event celebrating the steel topping out of the new terminal building. WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, is providing construction management and inspection services to the Port Author...
Class of Your Own Announces School Curriculum Partnership with Bentley Systems
Winners of the 2019 Future Infrastructure Challenge: DEC Hyperloop is the Drummond Community High School Team (Alizah Mughal, Ryan Gordon, Wiktor Rauba, Faye Fulton) with Harj Dhaliwal, Managing Director Middle East & India, Virgin Hyperloop One, who was a member of the judging panel for the event. SINGAPORE – The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference – Class of Your Own, a UK-headquartered provider of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) curriculum and built environ...
Bentley Systems Joins as a Multinational Member – Announces Support of IFC for Digital Twins
London, U.K. - buildingSMART International is delighted to welcome Bentley Systems to the community. Bentley Systems, Incorporated is the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley Systems joins as a multinational member bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the standards and solutions program. At the same time, Bentley announced the availability of iModel...
Mark Fricke rejoins HNTB as project director in Southern California
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Mark Fricke, PE, has re-joined HNTB Corporation as project director in Southern California. He brings more than 35 years of experience in highway design for major urban corridors and is based in the firm’s growing Santa Ana office. His duties include roadway design management of the firm’s work on the XpressWest high-speed rail project from Victorville, California, to Las Vegas. This project impacts Interstate 15 and requires significant design coordination with Caltrans Dist...
Stantec bolsters health sector advancement in the Washington, DC and Mid-Atlantic regions with strategic promotion of Allen Whitaker
WASHINGTON, DC (October 23, 2019) NYSE, TSX:STN: Leading global design firm Stantec has promoted Allen Whitaker to Principal in the firm’s health sector practice. In this new position, Whitaker will work closely with regional and global health sector leadership to implement Stantec’s strategic plan focused on growth in the Washington, DC region and beyond. Whitaker has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare design, with a focus on particle therapy centers, academic medical centers, am...
CEMEX Adopts Delair.ai Cloud-based Visual Intelligence Platform to Enable the Digital Transformation of Aggregate Operations
Global leader in construction industry products implements delair.ai in France to increase operational efficiency and optimize safety at its production sites Industry’s most comprehensive platform for mining and quarrying industry includes 3D modeling, artificial intelligence and cloud-based model Toulouse and Paris, France – Delair, a leading provider of enterprise visual data management solutions, has signed an agreement in France with CEMEX, one of the global leaders for supplyin...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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