HNTB Shapes Transportation Infrastructure in Greater Kansas City for 105 Years
First HNTB office opened in Kansas City, Mo., in 1914; early history of the company includes bridge, rail and toll projects. KANSAS CITY, Mo. – HNTB Corporation is marking the 105th anniversary of its Kansas City office opening. The firm’s heritage in Kansas City dates back to its founding in 1914. That year, John Harrington, Ernest Howard and Louis Ash formed the civil engineering partnership Harrington, Howard & Ash in Kansas City, which later became HNTB. Today, HNTB occupies a larg...
Melisa Montemayor joins HNTB as group director – engineering in San Antonio, Austin and El Paso
SAN ANTONIO – Melisa Montemayor joined HNTB Corporation as group director and vice president, based in the firm’s San Antonio office. She is responsible for direction and supervision of HNTB’s roadway engineering group, which serves a variety of transportation clients throughout the region. Montemayor has nearly 25 years of transportation programming, design, environmental, planning, construction and maintenance experience. Previously, she spent her career serving the Texas Department of Tr...
Business Development Professional Franco Puentes Joins Cardno's Houston Office
Houston, TX - Cardno is pleased to announce that Franco Puentes has joined the firm as a Business Development Manager in the company’s Houston, TX, USA office. Franco has more than 16 years of experience delivering complex projects across the commercial, residential, healthcare, and oil & gas sectors. He has worked with public agencies, architects, commercial developers, and other engineering disciplines in the Houston, TX, market, including the Harris County Civil Justice Center building....
The American Water Summit 2019, Houston: Leadership for a Sustainable America
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Global Water Intelligence (GWI) has announced the theme for the 2019 American Water Summit, taking place in Houston, on November 12th – 14th. The 10th annual event will hear from keynote speaker Rana Foroohar, FT, and bring together productive networking, with an agenda and speakers that represent and drive action, progress and opportunity. The goal of the 2019 American Water Summit is to explore the ways in which strong leadership will shape the future of sustainability in North...
Ping Flicks Switch on Wind Turbine Listening Devices
The first major roll out of acoustic listening devices to monitor the health of wind turbines will go live in Australia today. South Australian company Ping Services will install 55 of its devices on turbines at a wind farm in the neighbouring state of Victoria as part of a three-month pilot program. The patented device, known as the Ping Monitor, uses acoustic analysis, machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT) to continuously detect wind turbine blade damage. The key piece of...
Brown and Caldwell Appoints New Health and Safety Exec
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, today announced Martha Bixby has joined the firm as vice president of health and safety. Bixby brings a 22-year track record of developing and directing global environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHSS) programs and best-practices across a wide range of sectors including energy, industrial electronics, building materials, and manufacturing. Her expertise includes environmental...
Utility-linked smart thermostats to account for 36% of $75bn automated home market by 2025, says GlobalData
The automated home market exceeded $23bn in 2018 and is expected to reach $75bn by 2025, at an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest theme report, ‘Thematic Research: Automated Home and Utilities’, states that growth will mostly be driven by smart thermostats, which are becoming increasingly common as consumers and governments look to control energy consumption. In fact, over $7bn of the 2018 fi...
Highview Power Appoints Energy Executive Salvatore Minopoli as Vice President of Highview Power USA
NEW YORK CITY and LONDON – Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Salvatore Minopoli as Vice President of Highview Power USA where he will focus on driving the development of projects in the eastern U.S. market. Mr. Minopoli, most recently at Wärtsilä as the General Manager of Power Origination & Project Development, brings over 30 years of U.S. energy industry experience to the Highview Power executive tea...
Trimble Announces New Offline Data Transfer and Post-Processing Workflow for Trimble TerraFlex Software
SUNNYVALE, Calif.— Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today its Trimble® TerraFlex™ field software now supports the transfer of data between the field and office without the use of Trimble cloud services. The new software workflow—called offline data transfer—is possible through the integration of Trimble TerraFlex and the Trimble Positions™ Desktop add-in for Esri® ArcGIS® Desktop. TerraFlex is a field solution that enables mobile workers to easily collect, manage and edit their geospatial featur...
Stantec Assisting City of Kirkland to Improve Fish Passage, Reduce Flooding in Cedar Creek
KIRKLAND, WA - Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm—is helping the City of Kirkland improve fish passage and reduce flooding in Cedar Creek by replacing an aging culvert at 100th Avenue Northeast. The design team recently submitted a 30-percent design to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permitting on the $1 million project. “By working with the City of Kirkland we have an opportunity to restore a key stretch of Cedar Creek,” said Jim McPherson, Stantec projec...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
