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Western Washington University (WWU) officially broke ground on the first publicly funded zero-energy academic building on a university campus in Washington State on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Named Kaiser Borsari Hall, WWU’s new electrical and computer engineering, energy science, and computer science building will significantly expand capacity within the university’s electrical engineering and computer science programs and some of WWU’s fastest growing degree programs. Elected officials, leaders from the building’s design firm, Perkins&Will, and general contractor and construction manager, Mortenson, joined WWU leadership, alumni and members of the community to celebrate the official start of the new learning facility’s construction. “We are thrilled to see this important project officially break ground. The science and engineering facility that will rise on this site will be a place for collaboration, connection, and innovation, nurturing areas of study which will be critical to t...

H.W. Lochner, Inc. (Lochner), a leading provider of transportation infrastructure planning and engineering services, has been selected by the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NET RMA) as one of two firms to provide General Engineering Consultant (GEC) services through a five year contract to support multimodal transportation improvements in the region. The GEC role involves operating as an extension of, and in complete coordination with, the Authority’s Board of Directors and staff with respect to projects which now or in the future are studied, constructed, or operated by the NET RMA. “Lochner is excited to support the NET RMA in their mission to implement infrastructure solutions that will enhance the quality of life and the economic environment in North East Texas,” said Senior Vice President and South Central Regional Manager Phil Russell. “Our experience with tolling agencies across the country will prove beneficial as we partner to accelerate the development of the...

London, UK –  Wood Thilsted is pleased to announce the establishment of its first presence in the South Korean offshore wind market with the relocation of two of its specialist engineers to support the development of about 10 potential fixed and floating offshore windfarms. Jack Cran and Luke Graydon will be co-located with Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) in Korea from April 2023. Jack will bring his skills in Geotechnical Engineering while Luke will be supporting on Floating Foundation Engineering. Both will be supported by our teams in Taiwan and Europe to ensure that COP can access WT’s full range of expertise. This move comes at a very exciting time for the South Korean offshore wind market with significant partnership announcements in 2023 from installers, fabricators, and developers. The high level of activity in the market is indicative of the scale of opportunity for South Korea due to its large amount of coastline and favourable wind conditions. The South Korean gover...

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (the “Company” or “Bowman”) (NASDAQ: BWMN), today announced the purchase of Hole Montes, Inc. (“Hole Montes”), an engineering services firm offering an extensive portfolio of infrastructure planning services from offices in Naples, FL and Fort Myers, FL. Founded in 1966, the firm has a storied history as one of the most trusted, reliable, and entrenched full-service engineering firms in Southwest Florida. Today, Hole Montes provides comprehensive design, survey, GIS, and construction management expertise to customers focused on environmental engineering, transportation infrastructure, airport facilities, storm water and wastewater systems, land planning, landscape architecture, and more. Hole Montes has a workforce of 65 professionals, all of whom will join Bowman in connection with the acquisition. “Hole Montes is a well-respected firm with a long-established presence in Southwest Florida,” said Gary Bowman, CEO of Bowman. “They possess expertise and clie...

Engineered Rigging  once again demonstrated its heavy lift prowess — this time helping to build the largest aircraft hangar under construction in the United States. The 275,000 square foot hangar, part of the new  United Parcel Service  ( UPS ) Northwest Aircraft Maintenance Complex in Louisville, KY, will house two Boeing 747-8F aircraft, the largest in its fleet. A key component of the new hangar is a 380-foot long box truss weighing 1.7 million pounds. Engineering Rigging’s strand jacks handily positioned this hefty component. The box truss is part of the door side of the hangar, and it needed to be raised 80 feet. Its length (longer than a football field) and massive weight required careful planning. Engineered Rigging, which provided equipment rental and onsite support, joined forces with  Hensel Phelps , general contractor;  Midwest Steel , steel erector; and  Ruby and Associates , lift engineer. “We collaborated closely with lift designer Ruby and ...

Thornton Tomasetti’s New York Transportation team  welcomes Vice President Lisa MacKay. She has more than 30 years of experience in the design, inspection, rehabilitation and management of high-profile transportation and infrastructure projects for the New York City and State Departments of Transportation as well as several railroad, transit and bridge and tunnel authorities. During her career, MacKay has worked on many of metro New York’s busiest highway and railroad bridges, tunnels, and rail hubs. She has served as design manager or lead engineer on several design-build projects and procurements. Most recently, MacKay was an associate vice president at AECOM. She has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Hofstra University and a master’s degree in structural engineering from Columbia University. She is a licensed professional engineer in New York and New Jersey. source https://csengineermag.com/lisa-mackay-joins-thornton-tomasettis-new-york-transportation-group-as-v...

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.  – The Sacramento region can expect to see big changes related to how wastewater is treated and reused with the completion of  Regional San’s  $1.7 billion, decade-long expansion. Named the  EchoWater Project , the immense upgrade was completed in spring 2023—on schedule and under budget. The result is a safe and reliable supply of treated water for discharge to the Sacramento River, which will also be used for recycled water purposes—like irrigating local agriculture and supporting habitat conservation land. The expanded tertiary treatment facility is now the second largest treatment plant of its kind in the nation, and the expansion project was among the largest public works projects in the Sacramento region’s history. Regional San treats an average of 135 million gallons of wastewater each day from 1.6 million people throughout Sacramento County and West Sacramento. “Our upgraded treatment process now removes 99 percent of ammonia and 89 perce...

Drone Nerds is hosting its first-ever UAV industry summit in Miami. Apart from featuring exhibitors from major industry partners like DJI, Sony, Pix4D, Teal, and many more, the ElevateUAV Summit will also have speaker sessions and workshops regarding a wide range of uses, trends, and developments.  Grant Hosticka, the Head of Enterprise Solutions Engineering for DJI, will participate as a guest speaker at ElevateUAV. He has helped many commercial organizations successfully deploy drones. Grant was one of the first people to graduate with a degree in Unmanned Systems and also has his private pilot license. Prior to joining DJI, Grant built his experience and UAV acumen by running his own drone service company, conducting utility field inspections of critical infrastructure. Tom Cerchiara from Pix4D will also be joining in to provide AEC professionals with an overview of how reality capture using both drones and mobile devices saves money, reduces delays, and increases safety. In t...

Swedish design and technology company STILFOLD – the parent company of electromobility startup STILRIDE – has been granted its first patent right for its innovative “industrial origami” manufacturing technology.  STILFOLD’s technology enables designers to produce complex, light and sustainable structures by folding flat sheet metal over curves using computational design and advanced robotics. The Swedish patent covers the core technology that enables STILFOLD to design and build sophisticated products using origami-inspired curve folding. It includes the company’s proprietary computer-guided software (called STILWARE) which enables designers to create folding instructions for flat materials and turn them into three-dimensional shapes.  The idea behind STILFOLD is to design and manufacture products that combine functionality, durability and sustainability, enabling designers to use fewer raw materials and components without sacrificing design complexity. Eventually, the ST...

On May 11, 2023, the Ohio Rail Development Commission (Rail Commission) approved a grant of up to $750,000 to Columbus & Ohio River Rail Road (CUOH) to improve capacity at CUOH’s Newark Yard and mitigate the possibility of blocked railroad crossings in Zanesville. The work consists of the installation of 5,707 feet of track at Newark Yard and the installation of two radio-controlled switch machines in Zanesville.  The total project cost is estimated at $1,752,740. Newark Yard is CUOH’s primary classification yard. Railcars are sorted there for final distribution to area customers or built into trains bound for interchange.  Licking County and the surrounding region are experiencing an influx of development related to Intel.  CUOH anticipates an increase of 4000 carloads in 2023 and 2024 due, in large part, to this development: the construction of the Intel facility itself, supplier facilities, as well as roadway improvements and other required infrastructure. CUOH h...

The winner of the international Swedish Steel Prize 2023 is Green Buffers from Sweden. The prize is awarded for their highly sophisticated use of energy-absorbing high-strength steel to make trains safer for passengers and more economical for operators. “The Green Buffers system uses high-strength steel profiles to dissipate the energy from a train collision in a controlled way. Their new generation coupling technology opens up for sophisticated custom design solutions that will save lives and reduce costs,” says Eva Petursson, chair of the Swedish Steel Prize jury and head of SSAB’s research and innovation. New generation train coupling technology Existing crash management systems for trains are primitive. Safety standards are based on technology from the 1960s or 1970s and even minor accidents result in derailments. This is where Roger Danielsson and his colleagues at Green Buffers saw room for improvement. Inspired by the automotive industry, they have developed an energy dissipa...

DALLAS, TX (May 11, 2023) – Generational Equity, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisor for privately held businesses, is pleased to announce the sale of its client, Carter Associates, Inc. to LJA Engineering, Inc. The acquisition closed April 27, 2023. Carter Associates, Inc. (CAI), located in Vero Beach, Florida, is a diversified, full service civil engineering and land surveying firm. CAI is an icon in the Indian River County and Treasure Coast areas, with its rich history of regional development dating back to 1911 when founder Robert D. Carter designed a canal drainage program near what is now Vero Beach, which changed 55,000 acres of marsh into useful salable land. This still-functioning canal system, now managed by Indian River Farms Water Control District, continues to drain much of Indian River County and the City of Vero Beach. To this day, CAI continues to provide District Engineering services for Indian River Farms Water Control District as well as all the other ...

Pleasanton, Calif. —  Simpson Strong-Tie , the leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, announced today the successful completion of a series of seismic tests on the tallest building yet subjected to earthquake simulations. Tests on the 10-story mass timber structure were conducted as part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) TallWood Project, a research project funded by the National Science Foundation and  building industry partners  to prove the strength and seismic resiliency of mass timber as a low-carbon structural building material. Seismic tests simulating both the 1994 magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake and the 1999 magnitude 7.7 Jiji earthquake were conducted at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), home to North America’s largest outdoor shake table and one of the two biggest earthquake simulators in the world, with a capacity of carrying and shakin...

Asphalt Contractor, the nationally recognized magazine serving asphalt contractors and producers, has named  Command Alkon , and  Dividia Technologies ’ Scale Watcher Cloud a Top 30 Editor’s Choice award winner. Asphalt Contractor’s Top 30 Editor’s Choice award represents the asphalt industry’s best products gaining interest from end-users and asphalt professionals alike. The awarded products, exhibiting innovation and utility, were chosen based on submitted nominations and audience engagement during a 12-month period on ForConstructionPros.com, and narrowed down by the editorial team and advisory board. Scale Watcher provides photo and video verification of a truck’s weighing process, providing proof of vehicle pickup without signatures. An optional Gate/Valve anti-theft module alerts authorized personnel of potential theft of materials.   With Scale Watcher Cloud, on-prem data is shifted to a web-based portal providing visual displays of important site events th...

The UK’s largest ground investigation project to date is to be undertaken this year by RSK/Structural Soils as part of a major National Highways infrastructure contract. The contract started in early March and is programmed to last 22 weeks, drawing on the skills of 14 additional RSK Group companies. The team will contribute to a project that includes eight schemes designed to improve the A66 between M6 junction 40 at Penrith to A1(M) Scotch Corner. If approved by the Secretary of State, the work will involve dualling the remaining single carriageway sections of road and improving junctions. Structural Soils Managing Director Stephen Mackereth said: “I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the A66 site recently and I was able to gain an appreciation of the magnitude of the job we are doing, which is really quite something, even by the standards we have previously set ourselves. We are Principal Contractor for a project that entails something in the order of 1300 exploratory holes,...

What : Bentley experts will be participating in the FIG Working Week 2023 conference in Orlando, Florida, which brings together the international community of surveying and spatial professionals. Bentley colleagues will be featured in presentations at the event, and industry experts will provide insights into Bentley’s iTwin Capture. They will discuss how iTwin Capture can be used to capture, analyze, manage, and share reality data to add real-world insights to digital twins. They will also showcase how iTwin Capture offers the highest-fidelity and most versatile means of capturing reality by creating engineering-ready, high-resolution 3D models of infrastructure assets —whether by digital camera, scanner, or mobile mapping device—to serve as the digital context for design and engineering, construction, and operations workflow. The conference theme, “Protecting Our World – Conquering New Frontiers,” offers an opportunity for geospatial professionals to expand their presence throu...

VHB President and CEO Mike Carragher has been appointed Chair of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Research Institute’s Board of Directors. The ACEC Research Institute was formed in 2020 to expand research and thought leadership capabilities, serving as the premier source for industry trends and analysis. Mike will serve alongside Vice Chairman, Steve Lefton of Kimley-Horn and Associates, Executive Director Daphne Bryant and 12 additional national leaders on the Board. Prior to being named Chair, Mike served as Vice Chair. The ACEC Research Institute’s mission is to deliver knowledge and business strategies that guide and elevate the engineering industry by: Identifying, funding and providing industry wide research, forecasts, and trend analysis. Capitalizing on the rapidly changing nature of technology and society to ensure a sustainable engineering industry. Promoting the engineering profession’s essential value to society. Inspiring future generations to so...

Swansea, IL – TWM, Inc., one of the top engineering and geospatial firms in the greater St. Louis area, is pleased to announce the appointment of Derek Twente, PLS, EI, as its Chief Operating Officer. Derek will be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the company, as well as driving growth and innovation across all areas of the business. Derek brings over 18 years of accomplishments, contributions, and experience in Geospatial/Surveying to his new role. He has a proven track record of investing in new technologies to increase operational efficiency and delivering results in fast-paced, dynamic environments. He also holds senior leadership positions at TWM as Vice President and Director of Geospatial Services. As COO, Derek will work closely with President Robert DeConcini, PE, and the rest of the executive team to set the strategic direction for the company and ensure that it is executed effectively. “The TWM Board of Directors and I couldn’t be more pleased to esta...

A large-diameter microtunnel machine, which installed a 72-inch-diameter steel casing pipe a total distance of 3,156 linear feet, completed its final penetration into the receiving pit at Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, beside Amalie Arena, on April 21. The microtunnel was installed 65-feet deep under the Ybor Turning Basin, Beneficial Drive Bridge, and Garrison Channel, a Tampa Bay channel located between Harbour Island and the Channelside District. The microtunnel is part of a four-year design-build project that is replacing a 72-year-old pipeline system with a new 54-inch and 48-inch force main.  The project is being led by  Kimmins Contracting Corp.  The tunneling machine used to carve out the new tunnel is a major part of the massive construction project that required seven months of exacting operation to complete. One end of the tunnel connects to a 25-foot-diameter receiving vertical shaft at Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, and the other connects to a 40-foot-diame...

ROLLA, Mo. –  Three years ago, Krysta Swartz, of Caseyville, Illinois, graduated from high school and earned an associate degree from her local community college at the same time. Now, she is preparing to walk across the commencement stage again — this time with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. “I always knew I wanted to study engineering, but it wasn’t until I toured S&T that I realized my passion was in civil engineering,” she says. “As a civil engineer, you can see buildings, bridges and infrastructure and know how drastically your work impacts society.” Swartz says that potential to directly affect the world is what drives her passion as an engineer. “This field has a creative element, but it ultimately all relates to problem solving,” she says. “I am excited to get to work. A major goal for me is to eventually design bridges for big river crossings with large spans.” Swartz won’t have to wait long to get to wo...

Wilmington, MA – Ascent AeroSystems, a leading unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solutions provider, is pleased to announce that the Blue UAS-approved Spirit UAV is now available for purchase through the  General Services Administration (GSA) Advantage  website. The Spirit UAV is a high-performance, multi-role aircraft designed and manufactured in the United States for a wide range of applications, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), search and rescue, border patrol, disaster relief and more. The industry-leading Spirit provides operators with an all-weather platform equipped with best-in-class integrated EO/thermal sensor payloads so personnel can reliably dispatch the surveillance asset they need whenever and wherever they need it. The Spirit UAV is available in a range of configurations to meet specific mission requirements and is designed for easy transport and deployment, with a rugged, lightweight airframe that is backpack portable and can be qu...

When an incident occurred for a Finnish construction company during a bridge launch in Umeå, Sweden, in September 2020, experts from Mammoet were called in to save the bridge and help carry out its construction safely. This helped the construction company to avoid pulling down the bridge, and to salvage most of its original structure. The bridge was part of a new highway that bypasses the city of Umeå, at the western link over the Umeå River in northern Sweden. Forming a section of a relief road to alleviate congestion in the city, the bridge is 464 meters long, divided into four spans, and weighs 3,050 tonnes. Its layout is located over a regular bend (800-meter radius) and a downward slope of 2.25%. The bridge was being constructed using an incremental launching process. The first stage begins with the front section, which is placed on a launching pad at one side and then pulled forward over its supporting piers. With each new piece that gets connected to the previously launched ...

A new state-of-the-art teaching centre for health and medical students has opened its doors at the University of Worcester. Named after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in the UK, the building provides outstanding facilities for the University’s health students as well as becoming the home of the University’s new Three Counties Medical School, which will welcome its first cohort of students this September.  Formerly home to the Worcester News and Berrows Journal, the iconic building, nestled on the banks of the River Severn, has undergone a complete transformation over the past 12 months, from drab concrete to a beautiful golden colour which restores its elegant lines. Global multi-disciplinary design practice  BDP ’s civil and structural engineering teams worked on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Building, with BDP’s landscape architects responsible for the campus masterplan and public realm, which includes a ‘wellness trail’...

WSP USA, a leading engineering, environment and professional services consultancy, has advanced its commitment to help organizations become Future Ready® with the release of an essential book that explores how organizations can rethink their climate mitigation and resilience practices for greater impact. Titled “Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience and Sustainability,” the book serves as a guide for business, government and other infrastructure organization leaders to set and implement sustainability and resilience strategies in complex project and operating environments, in addition to other environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. The book, published by Wiley, is co-authored by Alastair MacGregor, executive business line leader for Property and Buildings at WSP; and Tom Lewis, a climate, resilience and sustainability consultant. The book offers bold perspectives from a team of WSP practice leaders and subject matter experts with deep ex...