WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced the appointment of two new Federal representatives, each with considerable transportation and infrastructure expertise, to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)…
Panel Sends USDOT Bill to House With Cuts, After Challenge on Infrastructure
The full House Appropriations Committee on July 17 approved a fiscal 2018 transportation funding bill that would make cuts in transit assistance…
August Solar Eclipse Has State DOTs Preparing for What May Be Widespread Traffic Disruptions
Many state departments of transportation are launching intensive communications efforts and planning how their operations teams will handle a potentially…
HNTB Shares Expertise at P3 Airport Summit in San Diego
SAN DIEGO – HNTB Corporation continued its aviation industry leadership at the P3 Airport Summit held recently in San Diego. The conference focused on public-private partnership development, project management and networking for airport owners, operators…
Droughts and Blackouts: How Water Shortages Cost India Enough Energy to Power Sri Lanka
India is making great strides to aggressively expand its renewable energy capacity. But the country's power sector remains highly reliant on thermoelectric plants, with high demand for water for cooling. That means that droughts, like the one caused last year…
I-4 Ultimate P3 Improvement Project Earns National Envision Platinum Award from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
Orlando, FL – July 25, 2017 - The I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project, a roadway reconstruction project in Central Florida and one of the most complex and extensive infrastructure projects in the United States, has received the prestigious Envision® Platinum…
Congress Deciding on Future Federal Spending in Infrastructure and Science
The House Appropriations Committee had a busy week, passing the remaining five (out of 12) appropriations bills this week, part of the process Congress goes through to create the federal budget. Here are the highlights of the bills affecting infrastructure…
FLIR Releases FLIR Blackfly S GigE Machine Vision Camera Family
WILSONVILLE, Ore. – FLIR Systems Inc. (NASDAQ) today released a new Gigabit Ethernet-based (GigE) machine vision camera, the FLIR Blackfly S. Ideal for a range of applications including display and PCB inspection, microscopy, robotics, 3D scanning,…
Oldcastle Precast Folsom Receives Overall Winner American Concrete Pipe Assn. (ACPA) Chairman’s Safety Award
FOLSOM, N.J. (JULY 2017) – Oldcastle Precast Folsom, New Jersey received the Overall American Concrete Pipe Assn. (ACPA) Chairman’s Safety Award and Individual Plant Safety Award for its innovative wire roller machine safety upgrades. Safety permeates…
Video: Crews Disassemble Drill from Inside Tunnel
As the front section of the giant SR 99 tunneling machine Bertha is cut and lifted from a disassembly pit, crews are hard at work disassembling the back end of the machine through the new tunnel. This short time lapse condenses more than a month’s work into…
