Contract for second-stage engineering study on planned 462-MW small modular reactor project uses technology of NuScale Power, of which Fluor is a majority investor.
Pioneering civil engineer, whose early focus on megaproject risk management and arbitration made her an asset on global works, had a cancer diagnosis, says her firm Pegasus-Global Holdings Inc.
The two engineering nonprofits will combine infrastructure development and related expertise to generate more impact on resource-poor communities around the world.
Cutting carbon and hardening infrastructure both requires a revolution in how civil engineering is practiced, says veteran engineer and sustainability guru Bill Wallace.
The Federal Highway Administration has released a extensive blueprint for implementing the use of vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, connectivity through 2036.
TranSystems CEO Tim Rock and Gannett Fleming President and CFO Jim Nevada become co-presidents and co-chief operating officers of the combined entity, with a new chief to be named and possible new corporate name.
Forensic engineering has come a long way since Wiss Janney Elstner Associates was featured on the cover of ENR in 1972. For its 150th anniversary, ENR looks back at how problem-solving and investigations by that forensics firm and others have better informed the engineering knowledge base.
A 1972 ENR cover story said of Wiss Janney Elstner Associates in Northbrook, Ill., “It exists largely by looking for trouble, both before and after the fact of structural distress and failure.”
The telescope, part of the next generation of telescopes now under construction or development, will be one of the largest optical telescopes ever built when completed.