The Wild for Autodesk’s BIM 360® Allows AEC Teams to Collaborate on BIM Content in VR/AR from Anywhere
Portland, OR – October 22, 2019 – VR/AR collaboration platform The Wild released an integration with Autodesk BIM 360®, which will allow architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams to coordinate and collaborate on their BIM 360-hosted models, in an immersive virtual or augmented reality workspace.Working in disparate solutions, AEC teams often lose significant amounts of time searching for the right information, communicating across various channels, and addressing issues arising fro...
Highview Power to Develop Multiple Cryogenic Energy Storage Facilities in the UK and to Build Europe’s Largest Storage System
Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, today announced plans to construct the UK’s first commercial cryogenic energy storage facility (also referred to as liquid air) at large scale, which will be located at a decommissioned thermal power station in North of England. The 50 MW/250 MWh project is a clean large-scale energy storage facility that can help the UK achieve its goal of decarbonising industry, power, heat, and transport. The project being developed wa...
HNTB’s Jim Barbaresso elected to ITS World Congress Hall of Fame—2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Jim Barbaresso, HNTB national practice leader ITS and emerging mobility solutions, senior vice president and HNTB Fellow, has been elected to the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame as the 2019 Americas winner of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award.’ He received the award at the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame ceremony at the 26th ITS World Congress in Singapore on Oct. 21. The ITS World Congress Hall of Fame was created in 2010 to recognize luminaries and true thought leaders in t...
Sempra Energy’s divesture of assets in Chile positive step to focus on core North American market, says GlobalData
Sempra Energy, one of the largest utilities by consumer base in the US, with reported revenues of $11.6bn in 2018, has sold its 100% stake in Chilquinta Energía, 100% stake in Tecnored S.A. and its 50% stake in Eletrans S.A. to State Grid International Development Limited (SGID) for $2.23bn, influenced by realizable business opportunities, progressive market regulations, and attractive market dynamics, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. In 2018 following a review of its o...
Bentley Systems Bolsters Digital Cities Offerings with Acquisitions of Citilabs and Orbit Geospatial Technologies
Advancing mobility digital twins through Orbit GT’s automated mobile mapping workflows (digital context) and Citilabs’ CUBE simulations (digital components) for predictive transportation scenarios (digital chronology) SINGAPORE - The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the acquisit...
Bentley Systems and Topcon Positioning Systems Launch their Digital Construction Works Joint Venture, to Close the Constructioneering Advancement Gap
New global company introduces digital integration services, advancing constructors’ innovative digital workflows SINGAPORE — The Year in Infrastructure Conference — Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, and Topcon Positioning Systems, a world leader in positioning technology for the survey and construction industries, today announced that its new, joi...
Charles Beauvoir joins HNTB in Houston as senior program manager
Significant transit leadership and project experience on complex transit projects in California will help advance programs in greater Houston HOUSTON – Charles Beauvoir, PE, SE, joined HNTB Corporation as senior program manager and vice president, based in the firm’s Houston office. Beauvoir brings more than 35 years of notable experience in the transit industry, working in the public and private sectors. Most recently, he served as an executive officer in the Project Management Divisi...
Engineers Put Leonardo da Vinci’s Bridge Design to the Test
Recent graduate student Karly Bast shows off the scale model of a bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci that she and her co-workers used to prove the design’s feasibility. Image: Gretchen Ertl Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked. In 1502 A.D., Sultan Bayezid II sent out the Renaissance equivalent of a government RFP (request for proposals), seeking a design for a bridge to connect Istanbul with its neighbor city Galat...
Moving Architecture: Unveiling the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2020
The Pavilion, officially unveiled in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.A.E., is made out of three boats, which will embark on a figurative journey to Dubai and will be converted into the roofscape of the structure before moving on after Expo 2020 – as an exploration into recycling, circularity and digitally reconfigurable architecture Exactly one year before the opening of the World Fair in Dubai (Expo 2020), Italy unveils the final design for its natio...
Jack Buckingham joins HNTB as vice president, program delivery, in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C – Accomplished industry veteran Jack Buckingham joined HNTB Corporation’s growing transit and rail practice as vice president, program delivery, based in the firm’s District office. Buckingham oversees delivery of the full suite of transit and rail projects and programs HNTB is implementing in the Washington, D.C., metro area. With more than four decades of experience overseeing planning, budgeting and delivery of some of the nation’s largest and most complex transit and rail...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
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