Ashley Booth Named Office Leader for HNTB’s Wisconsin Offices
MILWAUKEE – Ashley Booth has been named HNTB Corporation’s office leader for the firm’s Wisconsin offices in Milwaukee and Madison. An associate vice president, Booth has 16 years of experience, including recently serving as HNTB’s national streetcar practice leader and group director for planning and technical services in Wisconsin. He leads nearly 100 multidisciplinary professionals committed to advancing mobility improvements in the state. HNTB’s clients in the region include Wisconsin Dep...
Brejnik to Lead WSP USA Transit and Rail Technical Excellence Center
New senior vice president brings more than three decades of transportation engineering experience to his new role in the Western U.S. region. LOS ANGELES (October 22, 2019) — Rex Brejnik has been named the west regional market lead for the Transit and Rail Technical Excellence Center (TEC) at WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. As a senior vice president for the firm, Brejnik will lead, expand and drive growth for the transit and rail practice in the...
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...
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...
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...
Engineering Video: What I Wish I Knew Freshman Year
Kyle Gillis is an engineering student, YouTuber and the co-founder of two active startups. He’s completing his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at West Virginia University and will graduate in December 2019. A year after dropping out as a sophomore he returned to continue his education, and also began a YouTube channel educating students on engineering. He went on to co-found a drone STEM kit company called “Iconic EDU,” and later co-founded an environmental intelligence company ca...
AKF’s Caitlyn Angelini to Chair Prominent Tall Buildings Award Panel
NEW YORK - AKF, a global engineering, technology, design, consulting and commissioning firm, is proud to announce that Caitlyn Angelini, PE, a leader in their Architectural Code Consulting practice, has been appointed by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) to serve as Jury Chair for the 2020 Tall Building Fire & Risk Engineering Award Panel at CTBUH’s World Congress later this month in Chicago, Illinois. A registered Fire Protection Engineer and certified International Cod...
Trey Hamilton Joins ACI Staff
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (October 16, 2019) – The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is pleased to announce that Trey Hamilton joined the staff as Senior Engineer on October 1, 2019. In this new position, Hamilton will provide technical and administrative support to ACI's technical committees and assist with the development of technical resources, educational programs, and the adoption of ACI’s consensus-based standards. Hamilton has 35 years of experience in structural engineering research...
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Kristopher Clemson as First Entertainment Winner of Richard Diehl Award
Columbia, MD (October 16, 2019)—Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. continues to support the next generation of designers, naming Kristopher Clemson winner of the 2019 Richard Diehl Award, the grand prize for the Vectorworks Design Scholarship. With over 1,600 submissions, scholarships were awarded to 20 student projects from the architecture, entertainment, landscape and interior design industries. Winners included both individual and group submissions. The winning proj...
American Concrete Institute to Offer Rebates to U.S. Military Veterans Who Become Certified
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – The American Concrete Institute (ACI) is pleased to announce the launch of a new program for U.S. military veterans who obtain an ACI certification. Funded through a generous contribution of $50,000 from CMEC Holdings, Inc., to the ACI Foundation, the program provides rebates of $250 to help ease the financial burden of earning an ACI certification in concrete field testing, concrete construction inspection, flatwork finishing, or one of ACI’s other 20+ certification...