معلومــة

LEXINGTON, KY-NYSE, TSX:STN Leading global design firm Stantec has named  Tony Hunley , P.E., S.E., Ph.D., its new Bridge Sector Leader. In this role, he will lead the firm’s strategic direction for the Bridge practice to facilitate continued growth, diversify services, drive innovation, and enhance technical excellence. He is taking over for  Dr. Reed Ellis , who will remain part of the Bridge sector leadership team. Currently ranked a Top 10 Bridge Firm by Engineering News-Record (ENR), Stantec’s Bridge team provides its clients services through the full bridge lifecycle, including planning, design, inspection, rehabilitation, and maintenance on structures that span the distances between where we are and where we want to go. In his more than 25-year career, Dr. Hunley has provided project and program management, design, and technical oversight across every phase of complex bridge projects. He is currently serving as program manager for the 22-firm consultant team deliverin...

Groundbreaking Research Reveals Comparable Accuracy to Mob ile Mapping and Enhanced Performance, Driving Greater Flexibility and New Applications for Transportation Projects HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  –  NV5 Geospatial , North America’s largest provider of geospatial data services and solutions, will share ground-breaking research on the use of low altitude drone and rotary wing lidar surveys for transportation applications during the  2021 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting , a virtual event taking place in late January. The presentation – “Detailed Comparison of Three Lidar Captures from Drone and Rotary Platforms, and at Different Altitudes on Oklahoma DOT Roadway” – will be part of the session, “The Continued Evolution of UAS for Transportation Design,” scheduled for 4 p.m. on January 28. During the presentation, Mark Meade, P.E., PLS, CP, senior vice president at NV5 Geospatial and Kyle King, PLS, chief of Surveys for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation...

ATLANTA – Pond, an industry leader in construction management, architecture, engineering and planning is proud to announce the promotion of Julian Ramirez to Vice President of Construction Services, where he will lead Pond’s construction management, estimating, and preconstruction efforts across all markets and geographic locations. “Pond’s Construction Services has experienced exponential growth largely in part to Julian’s strong contributions as a team leader and selfless attention to his client’s needs.” said Bob Williams, PE, Executive Vice President of Pond “I am excited to see how Julian’s passion for building will influence clients and staff over the coming years.“ Ramirez holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Construction Management. With over 20 years of experience in the construction industry, Ramirez’s experience expands across diverse sectors including oil and gas, power generation, air quality control systems and commercial construction. Utilizing a 4D Schedule and Budg...

(HOUSTON) Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District’s (GCCISD) has completed or is nearing completion on several Career and Technical Education (CTE) Academy renovation projects. The biggest CTE renovation project is the Stuart Career Tech High School. Over the course of two bond programs – 2013 and 2019 – Stuart Career Tech High School has undergone several renovations in multiple phases. These renovations have helped the District enroll 300 students to date. The District’s goal is to increase enrollment to 900 over the course of the next few years. “These renovations are critical for students to learn the knowledge and skills required to be successful in the 21 st  century workplace,” said Renea Dillon, GCCISD’s director of career and technical education. “From innovative STEM labs to simulated medical facilities, the District’s vision is to create an industry-driven, real-world environment for its students.” The Stuart Career Tech High School renovations, designed ...

If you have ever experienced problems with AutoCAD or Civil 3D failing to launch properly or operate correctly, you have probably wondered what went wrong and, more importantly, what steps can be taken to fix it. There are many potential causes of these issues. Updates failing to process completely, system crashes, drawing files with significant errors, and a myriad of other sources can impair operation or entirely prevent it. Fortunately, there are a few steps that can easily be performed by most operators, which will resolve most of these issues. The first and easiest step is to restore your settings to default. Since this will undo any customization that you have performed on your work environment and user interface, it is a good idea to save these customizations to a profile. This will allow these settings to be restored after resetting defaults. To restore your settings to default, follow these steps and refer to the image, below: Select the Windows Start Button Find and open ...

LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Commission approved $4,626,938 for water and wastewater projects serving more than 6,054 people in seven Arkansas communities on January 20, 2021. The projects are as follows: The  East End Improvement District No. 1  in Saline County received a $2,650,000 loan from the Arkansas Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund for the construction of a water storage tank, installation of 12” water lines, and rehabilitation of the existing water storage tanks. This project will benefit 2,297 customers. The  Fordyce Rural Water Association  in Dallas County received a $313,643 loan from the Water Sewer & Solid Waste Fund. These project funds will be used to replace outdated residential meters with a new Automatic Meter Reading system. This project will benefit 755 customers. The  Highway 4 & 24 Water Association  in Ouachita County received a $339,418 loan with principal forgive...

Hillman and Landcadia III (Nasdaq: LCY) to Merge CCMP Capital to Remain Largest Shareholder Institutional Investors Led By   Wells Capital Management, Columbia Threadneedle Investments’ Small Cap Growth Strategy Commit to Invest $375 Million at Closing Transaction Values Hillman at Enterprise Value of Approximately $2.64 Billion Hillman Chairman and CEO Doug Cahill to Continue Leading Company CINCINNATI and HOUSTON  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HMAN Group Holdings Inc., the parent company of The Hillman Group, Inc. (“Hillman” or the “Company”), a leader in the hardware and home improvement industry and Landcadia Holdings III, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCY) (“Landcadia III”), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will result in Hillman becoming a publicly listed company. Upon the closing of the transaction, the combined company will be named Hillman Solutions Corp. and remain listed on Nasdaq under t...

LEESBURG, VA. – With President Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Accords, the  American Wood Council  (AWC),  National Alliance of Forest Owners  (NAFO) and  Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association  (SLMA) stand ready to support the administration as it now seeks to reduce carbon emissions. Sustainably managed forests and the wood products they produce can and should be an important component of the overall Build Back Better strategy to reduce the U.S. carbon footprint. Today, U.S. forests and forest products are already annually sequestering and storing nearly 15% of total U.S. carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. With the right policy there is potential to have an even greater impact. Wood is a renewable and sustainable material that stores carbon, both in trees growing in forests and as lumber and engineered wood products in the built environment.  Working forests provide a continuing cycle of growing, harvesting, and replanting th...

Dr. John Bowers to Serve as Acting Executive Director During Nationwide Search for New CEO Albany, NY (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering and Science (NY CREATES) today announced that Dr. John Bowers, AIM Photonics’ Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, will serve as Acting Executive Director beginning February 1. Dr. Bowers will assume the interim role after the current CEO, Dr. Michael J. Cumbo, leaves his position at the end of this month to join Artemis Capital Partners. A nationwide search for a new CEO will commence next week. Additionally, Mr. Cumbo will continue his involvement with AIM, serving as a special advisor to the AIM leadership team. “We thank Michael for his work leading AIM Photonics in 2020, and the business-like approach he established for the institute’s management and operations will have a lasting, positive impact,”  said NY ...

WSP USA plays lead role in delivering two iconic projects that expand transit capacity and improve customer experience. NEW YORK  — Moynihan Train Hall has arrived in Midtown Manhattan as a world-class facility that expands New York Penn Station, the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere, into the landmark James A. Farley Post Office building. A block away, the East End Gateway has also opened, providing a visually stunning and expanded new entrance to the Penn Station Long Island Railroad Concourse on 33 rd Street and 7 th Avenue. The Moynihan Train Hall, which opened on Jan. 1, increases Penn Station’s concourse space by more than 50 percent for the roughly 700,000 passengers who use Penn Station daily. The 255,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility includes 120,000 square feet of retail space. The facility is named for the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who in the early 1990s advocated for the development and proposed an adaptive reuse concept ...

Workers and businesses have never been more aware of the need for positive occupational and industrial hygiene culture than they are as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. A key means of protecting people against Covid-19 exposure in workplaces has been social distancing – remaining a minimum of 6ft apart – something that will prove challenging in workplaces where floor plans are designed to save space, not to keep workers as distanced as possible. Casella , expert manufacturer of smart monitoring technology, has developed an innovative, technology-forward solution to simplify social distancing in the workplace with the launch of the Orbi-Trace smart tag – a flexible social distancing solution that provides simple proximity alerts all the way up to full effective contact tracing. The body-worn Orbi-Trace smart tag is simple to operate, with a stop/start input and single LED power alert. It gives the wearer fully configurable vibration and audible alerts whenever a 6ft safe distance is...

Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  ROHM  recently held an opening ceremony announcing the completion of a new building at their Apollo Chikugo plant, started in February 2019, to enhance the production capacity of  SiC power devices . The new building is a state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly factory that introduces a number of energy-saving technologies to its production facilities, with 100% of its electricity coming from renewable energy sources. In addition, ROHM has strengthened their BCM (Business Continuity Management) system by introducing various disaster countermeasures. In January 2021, the company began installing production equipment and building a manufacturing system to meet the medium- to long-term increases in demand for SiC power devices. Since 2010, ROHM has been mass producing SiC power devices, including SiC SBDs and MOSFETs. The company continues to lead the industry in technological development, such as by introducing the industry...