Briefs

And the winner is…

Bristol, Va., has received the 2001 Landfill Management Excellence and Engineering Innovation Award from the Silver Spring, Md.-based Solid Waste Association of North America. The city was recognized for environmental compliance, program efficiency and effectiveness, and safety and innovation.

Cedarburg, Wis.-based Wagner Komurka Geotechnical Group has received the 2001 Outstanding Project Award from the Englewood Cliffs, N.J.-based Deep Foundations Institute. The award was given for value engineering and design of the Miller Park Stadium, the new home of the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has received the Roger H. Corbetta Award for Quality Service from the New York-based Concrete Industry Board. The award recognizes the design of the AirTrain project, an 8.1-mile light rail system that will link John F. Kennedy International Airport’s nine passenger terminals.

The Kissimmee (Fla.) Public Information Office has received three Crystal Awards from the Florida Government Communicators Association. The first place awards recognize the School of Government Program, which teaches residents about city government; the Got Good Government? campaign, in which city staff promote Kissimmee’s services, programs and commitment to the community; and the Access Osceola promotional video, which was produced to promote the city’s government cable channel.

The Maine Department of Transportation and Tallahassee, Fla.-based Figg Engineering Group have received an award of merit from the Chicago-based National Council of Structural Engineering Associations for the design of the Sagadahoc Bridge. They also received an excellence award from the Washington, D.C.-based Design Build Institute of America. The 420-foot main span, cantilever concrete segmental bridge is designed to resolve traffic delays created by the former lift span bridge.

Company News

Carson, Calif.-based Multiquip has purchased the Stow Manufacturing operations from Conklin, N.Y.-based Bomag’s Compaction America Division. The acquisition expands Multiquip’s offering of light and medium construction equipment. Stow now will be known as Stow Construction Equipment Division of Multiquip.

New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff and New York-based Weidlinger Associates have formed an alliance to provide blast analysis and counter-terrorism mitigation services for public transportation systems, airports, bridges, buildings and other infrastructure.

Richmond, Va.-based Tridium has partnered with Mequon, Wis.-based Eagle Technology to develop an interface between Tridium’s Vykon Building Automation Suite and Eagle’s ProTeus II Computerized Maintenance Management System. The interface will provide Web-based interoperability between building automation systems and client/server maintenance software.

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The Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has switched its entire 1,443 diesel bus fleet to ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel (ULSD). The move to use USLD will reduce particulate matter emissions by about 25 percent, which translates to 16.9 tons per year at a cost of $85,207 per ton. The city will save nearly 20 percent on achieving clean air goals by using the ULSD rather than natural gas-powered buses.

Getting there

Fontana, Calif., has contracted with San Diego-based Berryman & Henigar to design two street widening and rehabilitation projects for the city. Besides design, the company will provide utility relocation, landscaping, surveying and construction support.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has selected San Francisco-based URS to upgrade the I-694 and I-35E Interchange in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The existing interchange consists of two “Y” intersections separated by a one-mile common section with three lanes in each direction. The company will improve the traffic congestion and weaving by modifying the two “Y” interchanges and upgrading the common section to provide six lanes in each direction.

If you build it…

St. Charles, Mo., has chosen West St. Louis-based Paric to build the $15.2 million St. Charles Criminal Justice Center. The 63,000-square-foot facility will include a police headquarters, a 14-cell detention area, a courtroom with judges’ chambers, a multi-purpose community meeting room with seating for about 50 people, a police vehicle maintenance facility and a basement. It is scheduled for completion in spring 2003.

Albany, N.Y., has contracted with Clifton Park, N.Y.-based Bast Hatfield to build a $4.5 million pedestrian bridge for the new Albany railroad station in Rensselaer, N.Y. The 34-foot-wide-by-125-foot-long bridge is environmentally controlled and provides enclosed escalator, stair and elevator access to platforms. The project is expected to be complete by mid-2002.

Denver, Pa.-based High Concrete Structures has been awarded three parking garage contracts. The company will build one project in New Jersey and two in Pennsylvania. The Riverview Corporate Park project in Trenton, N.J., will feature four levels and 215,000 square feet of parking space. The 208,700-square-foot Wyeth Ayerst parking garage in Collegeville, Pa., will feature three levels. The 401 Plymouth Road parking garage in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., at 186,000 square feet, will provide space for 700 cars.

Plugged in

Las Vegas has purchased [email protected] ClearPath Plus CS7101 servers from Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys. The servers will allow the city to put many of its municipal systems — e.g., business licensing, building and safety inspections, parking and citations, labor distribution, maintenance, inventory, engineering and municipal court records — online.

Roswell, Ga., has contracted with Blacksburg, Va.-based Tele-Works and Bethlehem, Pa.-based Sunguard Pentamation to develop electronic government services for the city. The project will use e-AccessGOV, which encompasses Sunguard Pentamation’s back-end database applications and Tele-Works’ phone and Web front-end e-government technologies. The city also will offer residents an informational kiosk to access answers to commonly asked questions about local topics.

San Diego has hired Edison, N.J.-based RCG Information Technology to streamline the city’s information technology projects. The company will establish formal project management policies for the city and will be responsible for a training curriculum, training materials and a certification process to help city officials learn the new policies.

Westchester County, N.Y., has selected Redwood City, Calif.-based CoSine Communications’ IP Service Delivery Platforms for deployment throughout its fiber optic network. The company will provide secure dial support and DSL aggregation services for the network, which serves municipalities, government offices, schools and libraries throughout the county.

Smooth operating

Crystal River, Fla., has renewed a contract with Palm Desert, Calif.-based USFilter Operating Services for five years. The $3 million contract calls for the company to continue operating the city’s 1.5 mgd wastewater treatment plant, as well as the associated collection system and pump stations, two water treatment plants with 1.2 mgd and 0.75 mgd capacities, and the associated distribution system.

East Hampton, N.Y., has contracted with Fort Washington, Pa.-based Severn Trent Services to operate the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The company will be responsible for operations at the Scavenger Waste Treatment Facility and the Camp Hero Wastewater Facility.

Provincetown, Mass., has selected Wakefield, Mass.-based Metcalf & Eddy to design, build and operate a wastewater treatment plant and collection system. The $15 million, 20-year service agreement will provide the city with a 500,000 gpd expandable sequencing batch reactor plant, effluent disposal beds and a collection system.

Water, water, everywhere…

Cranston, R.I., has selected North Springfield, Vt.-based Dufresne-Henry to investigate the city’s 260 miles of sewers and 22 pumping stations. The company will identify sources of non-wastewater flow that burden the collection system’s capacity and increase the wastewater treatment facility’s operation costs. The study will locate areas where the sources of extraneous flow, primarily stormwater related, are entering the system.

Chelsea, Mass., has selected Chesterfield, Mo.-based Insituform Technologies to restore 9,300 feet of the city’s deteriorated sewers. The company will use its cured-in-place method to produce a hard, dense pipe within the sewer pipes, which range in diameter from 30 to 54 inches.

Ottawa, Ill., has selected Minnetonka, Minn.-based Osmonics to build four reverse osmosis systems. Valued at $1.65 million, the systems will treat four million gallons of water per day and serve 18,500 residents.