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MANCHESTER, N.H.  —  Newforma , the leading provider of project information management (PIM) software for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners worldwide, today announced the latest release of Newforma Project Center®. This release strengthens security with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) features for Newforma Info Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint Online. This release also includes a new connector for Autodesk® Construction Cloud® and enhancements for the Microsoft SharePoint Connector. Newforma has proactively addressed cyber security concerns by adding Multi-Factor Authentication to the primary applications used for sharing project information: Project Center Info Exchange and the Microsoft SharePoint Online Connector. Users accessing SharePoint Online through Project Center for the first time will be prompted to authenticate. MFA, also known as Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), adds a second layer of security beyond traditional username and password access whic...

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) launched the End User Guidance CPD (Continuous Professional Development) Course on 7 July 2022  – Global Lifting Awareness Day – as part of the Association’s new Academy 2.0 Platform. This one-day course provides an essential insight to general legal responsibilities for lifting equipment owners and end users. It is suitable for Company Directors, Senior Managers and responsible persons where lifting equipment is used in the business. The course content includes: an introduction to the legislative requirements for owners and end users of lifting equipment that covers standards and best practice; principles for selection of equipment, information to be exchanged between the user and supplier, and the various types of thorough examination; the role of the competent person conducting thorough examinations of equipment. On completion, attendees will gain an underpinning knowledge of the legislative frameworks, standards and best prac...

OMAHA, Neb.  — The National Park Service has selected a joint venture team of HDR and Moffatt & Nichol to repair, rehabilitate, and reconstruct several failing seawalls in the National Capital Area. The multi-year program will address waterfront improvements in National Parks throughout the Washington, D.C. area. The joint venture team will start work under an initial task order of $5.7 million to begin the planning and compliance process. The program includes the rehabilitation of historic seawalls along many shorelines, in many parks in the national capital area, including the Tidal Basin and along the Potomac River, from Memorial Bridge south more than 2.5 miles to Hains Point and then north along the Washington Channel, a total distance of approximately 5.4 miles. The walls protect many of the nation’s iconic sites, including the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the Japanese Pagoda, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the iconic Japanese flowering cherry trees. The rehabilita...

Reston, VA –   Bowman Consulting Group Ltd  (Bowman) (NASDAQ: BWMN), today announced the purchase of Project Design Consultants (“PDC”). Founded in 1976 and headquartered in San Diego, California, PDC and its 65 employees provide civil engineering, surveying, planning and landscape architecture to a variety of public and private clients throughout Southern California. Under the leadership of Greg Shields, the company’s CEO, PDC provides engineering services that manage change and add value to infrastructure projects involving public works for municipal agencies, utility service providers, urban and suburban mixed-use developers, hospitality, and entertainment venue owners, and commercial and healthcare facility operators. “PDC presents a compelling opportunity for Bowman to advance our market expansion and service diversification initiatives,” said Gary Bowman, CEO of Bowman. “California is a new frontier for us, and we are fortunate that Greg and the PDC management team...

Ninety-nine percent of North American capital project and construction professionals are optimistic about their organization’s future. Digital technology is the top driver of growth but change management must improve for successful transformation   SCOTTSDALE, –   InEight Inc ., a global leader in construction project management software, today launches its second annual  Global Capital Projects Outlook . The Outlook draws insights from research conducted with 300 of the world’s largest capital project owners and contractor construction professionals across North America, Europe and APAC. The research reveals that 99% of North American respondents – the highest globally – are either very or fairly optimistic about their organization’s growth prospects for the next year, up from 97% in 2021. Digital technologies (54%) offer the top opportunity for growth, however almost all (95%) North American respondents said that their experience of change management left room fo...

Hawthorne, N.J.:  Registration is open for the 6th International Conference on Grouting and Deep Mixing , being held January 15-18, 2023, in New Orleans, Louisiana . This conference, initially planned for 2022, is being presented by Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the International Conference Organization for Grouting (ICOG), with support from Geo-Institute’s Grouting Committee.  This legacy event celebrates 40 years of grouting technology and practices, focusing on the latest grouting practices, including: Advances in Digital Methods Innovations and Developments in Drilling, Grouting and Deep Mixing Advances in Grout Materials Properties of Grouted Material Grouting and Sustainability Codes, Standards and Specifications Advances in Verification and Monitoring Case Studies in Applications Grouting for Resiliency The conference features 11 preconference short courses, five keynote presentations, parallel tracks of technical sessions, panel discussions, a...

COWI in the UK has won the detailed design package contract for utility works around the proposed HS2 station at Euston with construction partners Mace  Dragados Joint Venture.   This vital design package will facilitate HS2’s works to improve connectivity and capacity for passengers accessing the existing London Underground network in  the area. This includes realigning utilities to create space for a brand-new London Underground ticket hall with direct connections to Euston Square station  and rom the new HS2 Station. For the first time, tube passengers will have  seamless connections between the Northern, Victoria, Circle, Hammersmith and  City and Metropolitan Lines at Euston.   Design scope is due to complete in quarter three of 2023, with utility construction works due to be carried out until the late 2020s.  The detailed design of utility diversions to the southern section of HS2 Euston  Station includes significant, criti...