Briefs
And the winner is …
Aurora, Colo.’s KACT-TV Channel 8 has received the top award for excellence in government programming from the Vienna, Va.-based National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. The station was singled out among those with operating budgets between $250,000 and $500,000.
If you build it
The West Norriton Township Board of Commissioners has retained Schoor DePalma, Manalapan, N.J., to provide engineering review and inspection services for the RiverView at Valley Forge, a 63.5-acre waterfront economic center.
Huntington Beach, Calif., has chosen Berryman & Henigar, San Diego, to provide program management services for its Civic Center tenant improvement project. The city is configuring 13,000 square feet of office space.
Company news
Littleton, Mass.-based Viisage Technology and Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys have formed a strategic alliance to enhance personal identification solutions with facial recognition technology. Under the agreement, Unisys will integrate Viisage’s face recognition image capture system and other face recognition technologies with its solutions for government, transportation, financial services and other markets.
Malcolm Pirnie, White Plains, N.Y., has formed a strategic alliance with Quebec-based Aqua Data. The alliance allows the company to expand its offerings in water and wastewater system assessment and operations analysis to the U.S. utility market.
Severn Trent Laboratories, the Fort Washington, Pa.-based environmental laboratory company, has acquired Sound Analytical Services, a Seattle-based environmental laboratory.
BETA Group, a Lincoln, R.I.-based engineering firm, has signed a purchase and sales agreement to acquire Bruce Campbell & Associates, a Boston-based transportation engineering firm.
Plugged in
York County, S.C., has partnered with Halifax, Nova Scotia-based NovaLIS Technologies to provide a computer-assisted mass appraisal system and a geographic information system. The systems will assist the county with property reassessment and with tax roll generation.
Prince William County, Va., has partnered with Blacksburg, Va.-based Tele-Works to upgrade the county’s Automated Citizen Information System from a DOS platform to an NT platform. The system provides answers to commonly asked questions about government topics.
Austin, Texas, has selected Storm-CAD stormwater management software from Haestad Methods, Waterbury, Conn., to aid in a citywide initiative to build a disaster-resistant community. The software will be used to address the city’s storm drain improvement needs in an effort to reduce the impact of flooding.