Tag: civil engineering

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ACPA presents 2017 excellence awards for concrete paving

The American Concrete Paving Association has presented its Excellence in Concrete Pavements Awards and selected Michael I. Darter for its 2017 Hartmann-Hirschman-Egan Award.   HHE Award Darter is principal engineer with Applied Research Associates and professor emeritus of the University of Illinois and has spent more than 40 years consulting, researching and teaching in the […]

December 13, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA presents Northwestern’s Schofer with research & education award

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has presented its S.S. Steinberg Award to Dr. Joseph L. Schofer, associate dean and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. Schofer received the award during ARTBA’s recent Research & Education Division (RED) meeting in Washington, D.C. The honor, named after […]

January 24, 2017

Roadbuilding

Former Iowa DOT head Trombino named president of McClure Engineering

Paul Trombino, the former Iowa Department of Transportation director who resigned from that position unexpectedly in November, will take over as president of McClure Engineering Company effective Jan. 3. The company, which was founded in 1956, reports that roughly 80 percent of its civil engineering services last year were in the public sector. Forty percent […]

December 27, 2016

Roadbuilding

PacTrans receives $14 million from USDOT for mobility research

The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) has received a $14 million grant over five years from the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of the department’s recent University Transportation Centers (UTC) grants program recipients. PacTrans is one of 10 regional UTCs in the U.S. and covers Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The University of Washington […]

December 8, 2016

Roadbuilding

Stronger, longer bridge girders the aim of research collaboration between University of Alabama, ALDOT

More durable and longer bridge girders could spell cheaper construction costs among other benefits, and a few engineering researchers at the University of Alabama are trying to make that a reality. According to a UA news release, researchers are testing longer, stronger giant concrete bridge girders in a lab at the University of Alabama. The […]

September 18, 2015

Roadbuilding

Cal Poly Pomona engineering students get real-world road building experience from Caltrans

If you want to be a transportation engineer in Southern California, your chances improve dramatically when you have Xudong Jia as your professor.  At California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), Jia teaches in the Civil Engineering department with classes of students who want to build the roadways of the future. Several years ago, […]

March 14, 2014

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January 1, 2013

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HLR opens new office in Chicago suburbs

Hampton, Lenzini and Renwick, Inc. (HLR), a provider of civil engineering, environmental services and surveying services to public agencies across Illinois, has opened an office in Romeoville, Ill., to better serve its growing client base in the greater Chicago area. With this new addition, the firm now has offices in three cities in Illinois: Elgin, […]

January 10, 2012

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HLR opens new office in Chicago suburbs

Hampton, Lenzini and Renwick, Inc. (HLR), a provider of civil engineering, Erica Spolar Erica Spolar of HLR is leading the firm's new Romeoville, Ill., office environmental services and surveying services to public agencies across Illinois, has opened an office in Romeoville, Ill., to better serve its growing client base in the greater Chicago area. With this new addition, the firm now has offices in three cities in Illinois: Elgin, Romeoville and Springfield.

January 10, 2012