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Engineering News // csengineermag.com Magazine Webinars Advertisers Events Structures + Buildings UC Davis fully opens net zero student housing community with 3,290 beds august 5, 2021 Sustainability measures include massive solar electric arrays and bike parking for each student. READ MORE... Simpson Strong-Tie and STRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGIES Form Strategic Alliance august 5, 2021 Simpson Strong-Tie, a leading provider of tested, code-listed, high-performance products and technical services for construction industry professionals, and Structural Technologies, a renowned provider of state-of-the-art infrastructure strengthening solutions and engineering support services, announced an agreement to form an exclusive strategic alliance within North America. READ MORE... Environment + Sustainability Outstanding results for 8 MW pump august 5, 2021 Sulzer overachieves stringent test criteria for main feedwater pumps in nuclear plant. READ MORE... Exponent Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results august 3, 2021 Exponent, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPO) reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2021 ended July 2, 2021. READ MORE... 56% of firms report a need to hire professionals with 7-10 years of experience.  Job Inquiries Advertiser Inquiries Transportation + Infrastructure Fugro wins multi-year contract to build new pavement management system for Manitoba august 5, 2021 Fugro wins multi-year contract to build new pavement management system for Manitoba. READ MORE... NYSDOT Selects Posillico/El Sol Joint Venture with Dewberry for Van Wyck Expressway Capacity and Access Improvements, Contract 1 Design-Build Project august 4, 2021 Firm to provide access improvements to John F. Kennedy Airport. READ MORE... Water + Stormwater DEWBERRY'S NIMISH DESAI APPOINTED TO ACEC/MD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE august 4, 2021 Desai to serve as a director for a three-year term. READ MORE... LAND & WATER COMPLETES DREDGING WORKS AT PEEL MARINA IN THE ISLE OF MAN august 3, 2021 Leading wet civil engineers Land & Water has completed dredging works on behalf of the Isle of Man Government as part of a wider three-year project which has removed over 22,000m3 of silt from Peel Marina. This has helped to significantly improve the water depths, improving the marina's access and functionality for years to come. READ MORE... Business News 2021 Rising Stars august 1, 2021 Once again, it is one of my favorite times of year. We are seeing some trends from the Best Firms To Work For Survey. This gives us a good pulse of how employees are feeling within the industry. We are getting to see some impressive growth from our Hot Firm Award Winners. READ MORE... Florida is Leading the Way with Private Provider Inspections august 1, 2021 An idle project is never good, and there's one thing that you can always count on to grind progress to a halt: inspections. This essential phase of any project is often one of the most tedious. In many states, delays caused by inspections can stretch on for months – and as cities grow larger and inspection staffs get stretched thin, the problem is getting worse. But this isn't the case everywhere in the United States. In fact, one state has been ahead of the curve for nearly two decades. READ MORE... Software + Technology Buildots announces $30 million Series B as their AI for construction technology reaches 12 countries august 4, 2021 Major building projects in the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Hong Kong and elsewhere are using Buildots' AI computer vision technology to close the construction inefficiency gap. READ MORE... Beyond Level of Detail into AM/FM august 1, 2021 With the advancement of building and information technologies, Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications have expanded from design and construction phases to support the operational stage of the building life cycle. The buzz term "digital twin," has quickly spread throughout the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation (AECO) industry as a way to describe the extension of the digital model as a replica of the physical building for use during the operational phase. While the potential advantages of a digital twin are acknowledged, there is still a lot to investigate and explore in terms of the practical applications and transition from design and construction BIM to the operational digital twin phase. READ MORE... Unmanned Systems NAVAID Calibration Drone by Cursir helped to speed up the flight check of the landing system of the Ulyanovsk airport august 3, 2021 Last year, by order of the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia, a working group was created on the implementation of UAVs to calibrate, check and configure navigation aids at Russian airports. As part of the activities of this working group, Cursir implemented NAVAID Calibration Drone at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny airport. READ MORE... Opener Makes History: First Public Human-Operated eVTOL Fixed-Wing Aircraft Demonstration august 3, 2021 BlackFly aircraft makes momentous debut at EAA AirVenture 2021. READ MORE... Surveying Channel Sponsor: Leica Geosystems Mapping the Smart Path to Happiness august 1, 2021 How one city is using geospatial data to improve the quality of life. READ MORE... North Dakota Department of Transportation Selects GeoCue True View LIDAR/Imaging Technology for UAS Program july 30, 2021 North Dakota Department of Transportation recently acquired a GeoCue True View 640 3D Imaging System (3DIS®) for their UAS program. GeoCue's True View 3D Imaging Sensors allow for both drone LIDAR and imagery to be collected in a single flight on most UAS platforms. The simultaneous data collection, bundled fusion processing software and data management package offers a fully integrated solution giving NDDOT a significant advantage over traditional LIDAR/camera systems as they can single-pass collect, process, and deliver high quality fused 3D data without leaving the True View ecosystem. READ MORE... Continuing Education Foundations for Extremes airing august 19 and 26, 2021 Join CHANCE® for a two-part webinar to learn how extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, storm surges, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters often cause substantial damage to the foundation of existing structures that requires rapid response for repair. In some areas, recurring events produce repeating damage to traditional foundations of lightly loaded residential and commercial structures. Learn why helical piles are an attractive engineered solution that can be used to provide rapid high capacity load bearing characteristics in most geologic settings for both new foundations and remedial repair. register now! Infrastructure Digital Twin Maturity: A Model for Measuring Progress august 3, 2021 If you are leading an infrastructure project you, are probably interested in investigating and applying digital twins. READ MORE... Coming in September's Construction issue! Grady E. Harvell Civil Engineering Research and Education Center Alaskan Cruise Practical BIM Implementation for Facility Management Part 2 The Future of Transportation  FREE digital subscription! Civil + Structural Engineer is a Zweig Group publication. No longer want to receive these emails? Manage Preferences Unsubscribe. Zweig Group Po Box 1528 Fayetteville, AR 72702 ‌