tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747766596944877152024-03-14T01:36:45.203-04:00Progressive Engineer Magazine NewsThe latest developments in engineering, as part of Progressive Engineer, the online magazine and information source with a sustainability slant.Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-21023548520699961112019-06-20T17:50:00.000-04:002019-06-20T17:50:48.645-04:00Oldcastle Infrastructure's BioPod biofilter system approved by Portland, Oregon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Oldcastle Infrastructure, part of the Building Products division of CRH, has announced that its BioPod Biofilter System with StormMix Media has been reviewed and approved by the City of Portland, Oregon, Bureau of Environmental Services.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As such, the BioPod is now included on the city's list of approved manufactured stormwater treatment technologies (MSTTs). The City of Portland joins a group of jurisdictions, including the states of Washington, New Jersey, and Virginia, that have granted regulatory approval to the BioPod. Engineers now have the opportunity to design any of BioPod's four configurations into stormwater management systems for projects within the city's jurisdiction.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Now that the BioPod has received approval, designers in Portland will
have a state-of-the-art, engineered, high-flow-rate bioretention option
for stormwater treatment and green infrastructure solutions," says
Joanna Ogintz, Oldcastle Infrastructure's regulatory engineer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></div>
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BioPod systems use a biofiltration design for filtration, sorption, and biological uptake to remove total suspended solids (TSS), metals, nutrients, gross solids, trash and debris as well as petroleum hydrocarbons from stormwater runoff. With its StormMix media, BioPod has a high flowrate, enabling a smaller footprint, with or without vegetation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Offering flexibility of design and construction for a storm drain system, the BioPod system comes as an all-in-one, single-piece unit composed of precast concrete for ease of installation and a long service life. The BioPod system offers an optional integrated high-flow bypass that eliminates the need for a separate bypass structure, reducing costs and simplifying the design.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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For more information on BioPod, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=GPq3n7ls-2F3iZ4zj6PPpcFvYZirR-2BzV-2BQ3VeXsuQsYxPyk6E58Qs9XxSSOLlpl23hBYhm8R2dTYMdlbQQ2jyklw-3D-3D_MjZzEuEoAvMbtAZ3RUeioZzfSAtrbG7kbXkZSWcbLi1vdp4PsRuXr0SoxyLSfJ-2B6CQe7R-2FLIQURzmfoW5wx5YKvqg8OLO3JE1Fn9cecsJW-2FSWEo653B4i0dVbycSMUalQg0lgBknbX1t-2Bnn7BPH6OZcUnSOHrAU9GjftHh2-2FMHHviCQY0zNqpGXR8aTtJ8YvsbJfi5TEqXayy4j53TqBZgpk18hmGbLCMcoftVNPlDHQQsirfD3ixTOp21aeXXkg-2BuJwPXCns4gzUzt5QrvcP9L8Q5IEWxoUrZvT-2FLWNxjvBxSKRiSKmSDTx2LVed3qXjiweilxmKZqQf-2FSgZE2L5tGNJYm47e58k0ViQ9s1f9nbq-2B-2B8iyw04nHDgPMQ9BV-2B" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" target="_blank">https://oldcastleinfrastructure.com/biopod</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For Portland's official approval letter, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=7VDqtAz2AW-2FeY7XnbvsasePFeUnrWyxzsdRf7XwUTZg-2FtSh1ampUFrQutKSPRxTbpdLGKe-2FyAesY8Z07OVysxw-3D-3D_MjZzEuEoAvMbtAZ3RUeioZzfSAtrbG7kbXkZSWcbLi1vdp4PsRuXr0SoxyLSfJ-2B6CQe7R-2FLIQURzmfoW5wx5YKvqg8OLO3JE1Fn9cecsJW-2FSWEo653B4i0dVbycSMUalQg0lgBknbX1t-2Bnn7BPH6OZcUnSOHrAU9GjftHh2-2FMHHviCQY0zNqpGXR8aTtJ8YvsbJfi5TEqXayy4j53TqBZgpk18hmGbLCMcoftVNPlDHhSk1-2F3RgDfLQH-2BqmR5r0dthlYH5jBpSlMvvcyRP6CppSz04HcMGvZBuaEjqkibOeYL4p9n-2FzHbRflpu24zL0Wo5AegHoH7x3247CCN9jD5R1-2FQWwr-2FWFoeKYCor8iB4WMm4WwH7KOc-2FrX5MarMgeB" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/article/713477</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" />Oldcastle Infrastructure provides building materials, products and services for infrastructure projects to several market sectors nationwide, including building structures, communications, energy, transportation and water. The company is part of CRH's Building Products division. CRH is a global diversified building materials group, employing 85,000 people at 3,600 operating locations in 32 countries.</div>
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James W. Sewall Company announces that it has recruited three new engineers and a surveyor. The four new hires join Charles Nadeau, who was announced last week as the company’s new CFO, as the latest additions to the Old Town, Maine-based engineering firm. The new employees come on board less than a year after Sewall was purchased by Treadwell Franklin Infrastructure, which is working to grow the nearly 140-year old company under new ownership.</div>
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Matthew Dieterich has joined the firm as executive vice president, bringing over 27 years of experience in program, asset, and development management. With a Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he specializes in construction management and private management development and also oversees the geospatial operations division of Sewall. His previous experience includes providing capital program support for the Trust for the National Mall in Washington, DC and overseeing construction management services for the National Park Service including the rehabilitation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the repair of earthquake damage to the Washington Monument.</div>
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Lynn Frazier, PE, PTOE, is a Certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer licensed in six states. She joined the Sewall team as senior traffic engineer with 12 years of experience in intersection and roadway operational analysis, roadway design, striping, signing, and safety analysis. Her areas of specialization include traffic signal phasing and timing, traffic impact evaluation, roadway and intersection design, and 3D traffic modeling. Previously, Frazier worked as the New England regional traffic group manager at the Louis Berger Group and as a transportation engineer at HNTB. She has also served as the Maine president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).</div>
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Heather Hayes, PE, joined Sewall as a structural engineer specializing in bridge and pier design, adaptive signal control technology design, and preparation of design-build specifications. Before joining Sewall, she worked for five years as a structural engineer at the Louis Berger Group in Portland, Maine. Projects included field verification and rating of 12 concrete bridges and 20 steel superstructures statewide for the Maine Department of Transportation. Previously, as a graduate research assistant at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, she worked with Dr. Habib Dagher and used specifications to design and test connections for concrete filled FRP tubes, known as Bridge in a Backpack. Using her research, Heather designed a splice that allows for doubling the bridge span.</div>
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Winston Sinclair has joined Sewall’s survey team as a field technician. He has over 20 years of surveying experience in Maine, and rejoins colleague John Allen, PLS, director of survey, with whom he worked in years past. Winston holds a BS degree in forestry from the University of Maine. Most recently, he acted as crew chief and performed survey tech work for Sacket & Brake, and before that time, as the principal assistant/survey technician for Ken Muir & Associates, and survey technician for The Ames Corporation. He also brings a perspective gleaned from several years’ experience in the earthwork and utility construction industry, both as the foreman/superintendent at Haley Construction and as a grade foreman at Vaughn Thibodeau & Sons.</div>
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Sewall President George Campbell, says, “This team of extraordinary individuals will augment the strength of Sewall’s engineering division led by Brett Hart, PE, who has recently been promoted to Vice President of Engineering. In addition to serving our existing clients, the engineering team will contribute its skills to new owner Treadwell Franklin Infrastructure Capital’s (TFIC’s) projects as it sponsors and develops US commercial infrastructure for the transportation, municipal, state, university, and health care sectors.“</div>
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James W. Sewall Company (Sewall) is a multi-disciplined consulting firm providing services to government, energy and utilities, and the forest industry. Founded in 1880, Sewall consists of professional engineers, surveyors, natural resource consultants, and geospatial and information consultants and technologists. Sewall’s owner, Treadwell Franklin Infrastructure Capital LLC (TFIC), is an integrated infrastructure business that focuses on developing and sponsoring the commercial infrastructure of the United States.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f7f8e7; caret-color: rgb(3, 17, 17); color: #031111; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Here's an entry from <i>Reinventing Green Building</i>, the newsletter published by Jerry Yudelson, president of green building firm Yudelson Associates in Carlsbad, CA. Yudelson has a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech, an M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from Harvard, and an MBA from the University of Oregon.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f7f8e7; caret-color: rgb(3, 17, 17); color: #031111; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Two weeks ago,<span style="background-color: white;"><span></span></span> Washington Governor Jay Inslee introduced a plan to address the Climate Crisis with an “</span><a href="https://jayinslee.com/issues/evergreen-economy" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #166704; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Evergreen Economy Plan</a><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f7f8e7; caret-color: rgb(3, 17, 17); color: #031111; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">.” The plan proposes to “catalyze” about $9 trillion of investment over ten years — with at least $300 billion in average annual federal spending leveraging approximately $600 billion more each year. Inslee’s plan is detailed, thorough and feasible, but has received little public attention. He might have the best plan to offer whoever is the next president; could it be him?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #f7f8e7; caret-color: rgb(3, 17, 17); color: #031111; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span>The projected 8 million new “good jobs” is not likely to materialize, but that’s OK because America doesn’t need more jobs programs, with unemployment below 4% and 10,000 Baby Boomers retiring EACH DAY for the foreseeable future (that 1 million fewer people in the workforce every 3+ months). Automation and AI will reduce our job requirements, and that’s OK.<br /><br />One thing I especially like is his focus on developing the electric car infrastructure. We should transition within ten years to a system that supports 100% EVs. With 250 million vehicles on the road in the US, we have a golden opportunity to revive the auto and electric power industries with “good jobs” if we commit to moving quickly to install EV charging stations nationwide. I’d like to see plug and play systems in every garage and carport.Over the next few months, we’re going to see lots of presidential candidates mouth platitudes about confronting the climate crisis, but only Beto (see my <a href="https://www.reinventinggreenbuilding.com/news/2019/4/30/beto-ups-the-ante-zero-net-carbon-by-2050" style="color: #166704; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">blog</a> from April 30th) and Inslee have plans on the table. The Green New Deal might be a framework, but it’s not a plan.<br /><br />If we’re serious about confronting the Climate Crisis, we need to demand specific and workable plans from all presidential candidates, something that they not only support but have thought long and hard about. Otherwise, it’s back to the streets on September 20th for the Global Strike for Climate.</div>
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Facing a Democratic governor and General Assembly, a major Springfield, Illinois business group has decided to go on the offense by pushing an issue with broad bipartisan appeal: filling tens of thousands of well-paying but vacant factory jobs.</div>
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In his first major legislative initiative, new Illinois Manufacturing Association President Mark Denzler says his top legislative priority is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black;"><a class="omnitrack inline-paragraph-link" data-omnilink="editorial-link" data-omnilocation="articlebody" href="http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1930&GAID=15&GA=101&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=119802&SessionID=108" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, helvetica; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 500 !important; text-decoration: none;">bill that would waive tuition and other fees</a></span> (including on-campus housing) at the University of Illinois and other state colleges and universities for students studying science, technology, engineering, or math who agree to teach in a state high school for at least three years after graduation or a state institute of higher education for at least five years.</div>
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A related bill would provide a partial tax credit for educational expenses for employers who sponsor apprenticeship programs, many them high-tech manufacturers or companies with complex technologies or logistics.</div>
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Denzler says the goal of both of the bills is the same: to better fill numerous middle-class industrial jobs that are or will be vacant soon but for which the pipeline of job applicants has run pretty dry.</div>
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“With nearly 300,000 workers set to retire in the next decade, Illinois manufacturers will need to find nearly 20,000 production workers and 3000 engineering workers annually“ if those jobs are to remain in Illinois, Denzler says. And that’s on top of current vacancies.</div>
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"If you talk to people in community colleges, they’ll tell you they have plenty of classrooms available. What they lack is qualified staff,” instructors capable of teaching in the so-called STEM disciplines, he adds.</div>
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The bill passed the Senate last year but stalled in the House. It is sponsored again this year by Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill. Denzler say's he’s been discussing the proposal with House leaders and officials in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration and is hopeful of getting them to go along.</div>
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School labor unions have not yet signed on to the bill, but the measure comes amid the rising number of Illinois high school graduates who end up attending college out of state, with many never returning. The estimated first-year cost is about $1.5 million, Denzler says, though that figure could multiply quickly in the future if the program works.</div>
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“I know we’re going to be playing a lot of defense this year,” Denzler says, referring to the proposed graduated income-tax and an already enacted new law to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. “We wanted to offer some things that have bipartisan appeal.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Officials representing Virginia Commonwealth University and the government of Ivory Coast have signed an agreement to train researchers in the West African country to develop high-quality pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities. VCU and its College of Engineering is home to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://medicines4all.vcu.edu/&source=gmail&ust=1541795517387000&usg=AFQjCNF57bNYNqlu5nANjYz_69Uj2UdNjg" href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=btYXC68syxnIlVIaW0qBweEUHWPFwuN5EgnqFgPj0oiC1OMl9zi1Rma1tKVf9wV3tLpv2va5aZiuQAoBVBDYB7Ku10Nq0yNMzHvvBRWvwuFTw5kQm7m%2FEzMzCukDbx8x%2B%2BMkcIG5ENg%3D&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fmedicines4all.vcu.edu%2F&I=20181108204122.000000082d49%40mail6-113-ussnn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZTQ5ZjU0NjRkMTgwOWYyODA2YWZkYzs%3D&S=4ESn8mhgWteE8NxHNwpVxTnX-oOuwqsHUmgjWBqEnMM" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Medicines for All Institute</a></span>, which is dedicated to improving access to lifesaving medications for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases around the world. Under the three-year agreement, the university will help Ivorian chemists and engineers gain the necessary expertise to produce medicines in their home country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., VCU vice president for research and innovation;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Barbara Boyan, Ph.D., </span>the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin Jr. Dean of the College of Engineering; and Abdallah Albert Toikeusse Mabri, M.D., the minister of higher education and scientific research of Ivory Coast, signed the agreement. “Students will come from Ivory Coast to our school and learn the techniques ... and take them back to Africa to improve the production of these drugs in a place where they really are needed,” Boyan said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The university will also provide research and planning expertise to help the government create a new research institute on the campus of the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Ivory Coast, and consult in the development of a drug research facility. The initiative seeks to reduce global dependence on a few manufacturers while empowering countries such as Ivory Coast to be self-sufficient in providing high-quality health care to their own citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mabri says the impact of the program with VCU would ripple far beyond the nation’s borders to greater Western Africa and beyond. Patients with malaria take up half of the hospital beds in Cote D’Ivoire, he says, and HIV is also a major problem because of the high local cost of medication. “We are working together to build a better world,” he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Schnabel Engineering’s commitment to the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) continues, as three employees will serve in key leadership positions in the mid-Atlantic region. The DBIA Mid-Atlantic Region covers the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, offering activities and events for those interested in learning more about design-build project delivery or advancing its use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Recently elected as DBIA-MAR board president, Mary Anderson, F. SAME, serves as the primary liaison between the regional and chapter leadership and serves on the board of directors for the region. She represents the chapter at regional DBIA meetings and workshops, schedules and presides over meetings and events, and presents chapter issues in regional DBIA forums. Anderson, a 30-year industry veteran, senior associate, and senior vice president at Schnabel, leads business development efforts for the firm’s federal government market. Anderson has also served in numerous leadership roles with the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), including regional vice president for the Middle Atlantic Region and post president for the Northern Virginia Post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Anderson comments, “This is an exciting time to fully engage with DBIA, as we are moving into the next era, following our 25th anniversary. All of our construction industry market sectors are reporting growth, and all states in the Mid-Atlantic Region are touting major economic development announcements. Within the DBIA-MAR, we are fortunate to have a wealth of opportunities and examples of ‘Design-Build Done Right.’ I look forward to supporting DBIA-MAR and working with my design and construction colleagues.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sherry Miller, office manager to Schnabel Engineering’s Sterling, VA office since 2001, joins Mary as an executive member of the DBIA Mid-Atlantic Region’s board of directors, serving as secretary for the chapter. Miller maintains the chapter’s formal documentation, prepares and issues minutes, and maintains documentation of board and chapter meetings and other events, including approved decisions and actions. She is also responsible for coordination with the region on administrative matters affecting the chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As chair of the DBIA Central Virginia Chapter Membership Committee, Muriel Rodriguez-Franqui, associate and vice president at Schnabel, works to recruit new members and retain existing members of the chapter. A key business development professional for Schnabel since 1988, Rodriguez-Franqui has held numerous leadership and committee positions with industry organizations and now brings that experience to DBIA Central Virginia. “I am very excited to help grow this multi-discipline, newly formed DBIA Central Virginia Chapter,” she says. “We are already off to a great start with programs and sponsorship opportunities for 2019.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Newly established in 2018, DBIA’s Central Virginia Chapter provides programming, networking, and educational programs related to the fast growing design-build project delivery method and advancing its use in the Commonwealth. The Central Virginia Chapter joins the Hampton Roads and Maryland Chapters as part of the DBIA-MAR.</span></div>
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Here are nine storylines that caught my attention this past year and help illustrate the unstoppable advancement of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">renewable energy</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and other modern grid technologies.</span><br />
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1. California Goes All-In for Carbon-Free Electricity</h3>
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In late August, California—the world's 5th largest economy—committed to the target of fully decarbonizing its power sector by 2045. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/california_cements_climate_leadership" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">landmark legislation</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>also strengthens the state's renewable portfolio standard (also known as a renewable energy standard, or RES) from 50 to 60 percent by 2030. What's more, at the bill signing, Governor Jerry Brown signed an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/adrienne-alvord/even-more-than-100-clean-californias-audacious-net-zero-carbon-challenge" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">executive order</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that establishes a goal of achieving carbon-neutrality across all sectors of California's sprawling economy by 2045, cementing the state's place as a global leader in climate action.</div>
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2. Several States Strengthen Their RES Requirements</h3>
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State-level renewable electricity standards continued to be a primary driver of new renewable energy development in 2018. In addition to California, legislatures in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/nyregion/new-jersey-renewable-energy.html" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New Jersey</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(50 percent by 2030),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ct.gov/deep/cwp/view.asp?Q=603448&A=4965" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Connecticut</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(40 percent by 2030) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/john-rogers/massachusetts-2018-clean-energy-bill" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(35 percent by 2030) all adopted stronger targets for renewable energy, accelerating their states' transitions away from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fossil-fuels" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">fossil fuels</a>. In addition, voters in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.renewableenergyoutlook.com/2018/11/15/nevada-voters-approve-50-renewable-portfolio-standard-by-2030/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nevada</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>overwhelmingly approved a measure to increase their state's RES to 50 percent by 2030 (the measure must be approved again in 2020 to officially become law).</div>
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3. Clean Energy Champions Win Gubernatorial Races</h3>
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One of the bright spots in November's election results was the number newly elected governors who campaigned on aggressive clean energy and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/climate-change" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">climate change</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>agendas. Newly elected governors in at least 10 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Wisconsin, have pledged to accelerate clean energy and carbon reductions in their states by supporting U.S. commitments to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/paris-agreement" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Paris agreement</a>, joining the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.usclimatealliance.org/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">U.S. Climate Alliance</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and/or calling for renewable energy targets of 80 to 100 percent. These election results demonstrate the widespread support for greater investments in renewable energy and signal the push for even stronger clean energy policies in the coming year.</div>
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4. Record Low Prices for Renewables</h3>
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Innovation, growing economies of scale and attractive financing continued to drive the costs down for renewables in 2018. Power purchase agreements for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wind" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">wind</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/solar" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">solar</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>projects in states like Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas have reportedly ranged between $20 to $30 per megawatt-hour, well below the cost of natural gas generation—and the technologies are positioned for further cost reductions to continue to be low-cost options even as federal tax incentives change. What's even more exciting is that the many of these low-priced projects also include energy storage components, increasing their value to the grid.</div>
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5. Major Utilities Commit to Low-Carbon Portfolios</h3>
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Earlier this month,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/joseph-daniel/xcel-commits-to-100-carbon-free-energy" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xcel Energy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>became the first major utility to commit to a completely carbon-free electricity supply across the eight states it operates in. In doing so, it joins a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/jeremy-richardson/utilities-look-toward-a-clean-energy-future-yet-the-administration-keeps-looking-back" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">growing number of utilities</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that are committing to phasing out their use of coal and transitioning to substantially lower carbon energy portfolios. Also this year, both<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.apnews.com/f876e5b74bc941fcadea30a99760aa59" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Consumers Energy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Michigan and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nawindpower.com/indianas-nipsco-plots-coal-phaseout-transition-to-renewables" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NIPSCO</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in northern Indiana announced plans to phase out coal generation and utility giant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.powermag.com/aep-american-power-giant-sets-goal-to-slash-carbon-emissions-80-by-2050/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">American Electric Power</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>announced a goal of reducing its carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050. What's especially exciting about these utility actions is that they are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/sam-gomberg/trump-clean-energy" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">driven primarily by economics</a>, clearly demonstrating the competitiveness of clean energy technologies.</div>
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6. Corporate Renewable Energy Purchases Keep Growing</h3>
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Low renewable energy prices continue to attract major corporations looking to save money and achieve ambitious<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/sustainability" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">sustainability</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>goals. As a result, direct corporate purchases of renewable energy have become a major driver of renewable energy deployment. In 2018, the Rocky Mountain Institute<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://rmi.org/press-release/corporate-renewable-energy-procurement-continues-to-break-records-in-2018/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports,</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>corporate renewable energy purchases—led by companies like Facebook, Walmart, ATT and Microsoft—reached more than 6.4 gigawatts (GW). The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.rmi.org/our-work/electricity/brc-business-renewables-center/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">number of corporations</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>investing in renewables expanded at a record pace this year as well, with nearly two-thirds of Fortune 100 and nearly half of Fortune 500 companies now having set ambitious renewable energy goals.</div>
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7. Offshore Wind Moves Forward</h3>
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While no new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/offshore-wind" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">offshore wind</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>projects came online in the U.S. this year (the next project—off the Virginia coast—is scheduled for 2020), the industry did take some big leaps toward becoming a major player in the nation's power supply. For example, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/john-rogers/low-price-offshore-wind-massachusetts" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">winning bid</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for Massachusetts' first request for offshore wind proposals to help meet the state's offshore wind requirements passed in 2016 went to an 800-megawatt project from Vineyard Wind at a shockingly low price of about 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. In addition, the latest U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/derrick-jackson/auction-sets-america-on-course-for-offshore-wind" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">auction</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for leasing parcels of water for future projects resulted in 11 bidders and $405.1 million in winning bids, both smashing previous records. And strong state policies, including<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/john-rogers/offshore-wind-massachusetts-rhode-island-new-jersey" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">new offshore wind requirements in New Jersey</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and elsewhere, mean that there's a lot more action to come.</div>
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8. Storage Steps Into the Spotlight</h3>
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Once a fringe player in the electric power sector, the energy storage industry is quickly emerging as a game changer in the transition to a clean energy economy as a tool for integrating much higher levels of renewable energy. In 2018, the pipeline for new storage projects doubled to nearly 33 GW as more utilities are investing in the technology thanks largely<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-and-levelized-cost-of-storage-2018/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">rapidly falling prices</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and growing support from state policies. While California has led the nation in storage deployment to date,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-york-psc-sets-states-energy-storage-target-at-3-gw-by-2030/544371/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New York</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>recently established the strongest storage requirement in the country at 3,000 MW by 2030. Earlier this year,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-jersey-sets-aggressive-target-2-gw-by-2030-for-energy-storage/524422/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New Jersey</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>set an ambitious storage target of 2,000 MW by 2030 and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/john-rogers/massachusetts-2018-clean-energy-bill" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>significantly increased its storage requirement to 1,000 megawatt-hours by 2025. At the federal level, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-order-opens-floodgates-for-energy-storage-in-wholesale-markets/517326/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Order 841</a>, which directs regional grid operators to set market rules that allow energy storage to participate on a level playing field in the wholesale energy, capacity and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.logicenergy.com/what-are-ancillary-services-and-why-do-power-grids-need-them/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ancillary services</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>markets.</div>
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9. PG&E Turns Down the Gas With Storage and Renewables</h3>
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In one particular sign of what's to come in 2019 and beyond in terms of how these technologies fit together to displace fossil fuels, one of the most exciting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/storage-will-replace-3-california-gas-plants-as-pge-nabs-approval-for-worl/541870/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">regulatory decisions</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I saw this year was the California Public Utility Commission's approval of PG&E's plan to use energy storage to replace retiring gas generators. One of the key barriers to fully transitioning to a carbon-free economy is replacing natural gas generation and the ancillary services they provide to the power grid. This decision, which marks the first time a utility will directly replace power plants with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/battery-storage/" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">battery storage</a>, should spur<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/ca-and-western-states/turning-down-gas" style="color: #262626; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">many more similar projects</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to move forward in California and across the country and open the door for integrating much higher levels of renewable energy onto the power grid.</div>
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These nine stories are just a sampling of what occurred in 2018 to further the clean energy transition. As the year comes to a close, UCS will continue to work hard to keep up the clean energy momentum in 2019.</div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-58775010994055392442019-04-23T21:28:00.000-04:002019-04-23T21:28:31.503-04:00Why we need more STEM students to study abroad<div class="speakable-paragraph" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: tabular-numbers, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1.2rem 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
Contributed by Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College</div>
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Students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are much less likely to participate in study abroad programs during their college years than students in other majors.</div>
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According to Open Doors 2018, the Institute of International Education’s most recent survey of U.S. study abroad, less than 2 percent of all college students studied abroad in 2016-17, and of that small number of participants, only 5.3 percent were engineering majors and 2.8 percent were math or computer science majors. The report highlights that while the number STEM majors in programs has increased over the past decade, STEM fields continue to be the most underrepresented fields in study abroad.</div>
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Yet international experience is vital for STEM students, who will be creating technologies that may impact the entire world. U.S. scientists and engineers also must be able to collaborate on multicultural, international teams to be successful in their careers and tackle global challenges together.</div>
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What holds STEM students back from studying abroad? STEM students often have a harder time fitting a semester abroad into a tightly sequenced required program of study, according to IIE’s 2009 white paper, Promoting Study Abroad in Science and Technology Fields. Other reasons named in the report include a lack of encouragement from academic advisors, difficulty in obtaining credit at the home institution for STEM courses taken abroad, and fewer science- and engineering-related study abroad programs overall. Yet another hurdle is language. Because STEM students often have to take more courses in their major, they don’t have as much opportunity to take a series of language courses, and that often limits their study abroad options.</div>
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Recognizing the challenges, many colleges and universities have been working to expand study abroad opportunities for STEM students such as making STEM curricula more flexible, weaving opportunities into the curriculum, and creating new programs.</div>
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At Harvey Mudd, where we only offer STEM majors, we’ve worked hard to increase participation in study abroad. We were sending on average only 5 percent percent of our junior class on study abroad programs in the early 2000s; now we send 15-18 percent of our juniors abroad.</div>
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I spoke with Harvey Mudd director of study abroad Rhonda Chiles about the challenges and benefits of study abroad and with engineering major Rikki Walters, a student who recently returned from a semester abroad.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Maria Klawe:</strong> Rhonda, what are some of the initiatives that have helped us increase participation in study abroad?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Rhonda Chiles: </strong> We’ve been partnering more closely with our study abroad program providers, meeting with them and telling them our STEM-related needs. They work with schools from around the world to create a portfolio of programs, and we can choose which ones work best for our students. Over the past decade, our providers have worked hard to create more opportunities for STEM majors. It’s still going to be more challenging for STEM majors, but that challenge is less than it was before. Students can say, hey, I want to do this, I can do this, it’s really possible.</div>
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We’ve also started to do our own course matching. We work with program providers to get course descriptions and syllabi from the programs and then have our departments look at which ones will match up. That makes a huge difference.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Klawe:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rikki, why did you want to study abroad?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Rikki Walters:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I spent last semester in Nepal, living with a host family and taking classes from Nepali teachers, including intensive Nepali language. Studying abroad was something I always knew I needed to do and wanted to do. You become a more global citizen, you understand different perspectives—it’s invaluable.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Klawe:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Was it difficult to fit a semester abroad into your engineering major requirements?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Walters:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I knew when I started college that I wanted to be an engineer and I wanted to study abroad. So, I started planning from the day I got here. It's totally possible to do, but it took a lot of planning. The Nepal semester program is run by Pitzer College, and they have been working over the past few years to make it possible for Harvey Mudd students to participate by bringing in professors from the local universities to teach STEM courses. Since I was the only student that semester taking an engineering class, I was able to provide the professor with Harvey Mudd’s textbook so that he could cover all my required material. It also helped that I took summer math courses and went on a summer engineering program to China, which helped me add credits towards my graduation requirements and gave me some room in my schedule.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Walters:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think nowadays, STEM workers probably have the largest effect on society. We enable so many different ways to manipulate the things in this world. As the designers and creators rather than the salesmen and businessmen, we don’t always see how the technology we create affects the world, and we’re not always the ones choosing how that technology is applied. Even if we read about the impact of technology from international news, we can’t fully understand it without physically going to another country, experiencing the society for ourselves and talking with the people there. With the tendency to believe more technologically advanced correlates to a better, more knowledgeable and wise society, we lose the ability to listen. It’s essential to listen because otherwise we don’t really know what people in other countries need—we’re just trying to make their society look more like ours. If we really want to help people, then we need to listen to them.</div>
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Good neighbors often share resources: a cup of sugar, extra lawn chairs, a set of jumper cables. Researchers across campus at the University of Arizona will soon be able to share a less common but far more valuable resource to help them further their research: entangled photons, or interlinked pairs of light particles.</div>
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With approximately $1.4 million in funding – $999,999 from the National Science Foundation and about $400,000 from the UA – professor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Zheshen Zhang<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is leading the construction of the Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Research and Engineering instrument, known as Inquire, at UA. Inquire is the world's first shared research and training instrument to help researchers in diverse fields benefit from quantum resources, including those with no expertise in quantum information science.</div>
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Zhang is an assistant professor of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fmse.engineering.arizona.edu%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=4vn2-_K4P7pA0dYP52o0JIv4IG6WGwtecP0OgIuVuZI">materials science and engineering</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.optics.arizona.edu%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=4vxLCveRPW-HoTQAHae69DuIT4GXdkYA--MiGsTgd7U">optical sciences</a> and the leader of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fquantum.lab.arizona.edu%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=_6ZapsikeChJQ_otBCYxsCIpQ08sTrS-NG_FMi-QZBE">Quantum Information and Materials Group</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at UA. Co-investigators of the Inquire project include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ivan Djordjevic, professor of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fece.engineering.arizona.edu%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=-QJQjdu3zBsirUdTZFCNt-9CKBsSBU9NXJHYYRVY19I">electrical and computer engineering</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and optical sciences;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jennifer Barton, director of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bio5.org%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=mh9aiwARyDiUth4Hy0HK5-_xeuwfVBQdkOLsZ_YwknE">BIO5 Institute</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and professor of biomedical engineering,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fabe.arizona.edu%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=JNyCMWvIRn-WkgLLvIXRGCQsWe1GgjOhxsfTB-3_1-4">biosystems engineering</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fece.engineering.arizona.edu%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=-QJQjdu3zBsirUdTZFCNt-9CKBsSBU9NXJHYYRVY19I">electrical and computer engineering</a>, and optical sciences;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nasser Peyghambarian, professor of optical sciences; and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Marek Romanowski, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and materials science and engineering. </div>
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A network of fiber-optic cables will connect an automated quantum information hub in the basement of the Electrical and Computer Engineering building to four other buildings on campus: Biosciences Research Labs, Mines and Metallurgy, Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, and Meinel Optical Sciences.</div>
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Barton comments. "It seems like science fiction, but Zheshen is building a facility that will create quantum-entangled photons, then deliver them via fiber optics halfway across campus, right into the Translational Bioimaging Resource in the Biosciences Research Labs building."</div>
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"This is an exciting project that perfectly represents some of the key themes underlying our strategic plan," says UA President<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Robert Robbins. "To be a leader in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we must leverage collaboration, stay ahead of the technology curve and provide a high-powered environment where researchers have the tools they need to solve the world's grand challenges. I look forward to seeing the new opportunities this facility brings once it is completed." Construction on the project already has begun with an expected completion date of September 2021.</div>
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<b>Seeing Individual Photons</b></div>
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Much like an atom is the smallest unit of matter, a photon is the smallest unit of light. So while we can see the light of tens of billions of photons in a room lit by a lamp or a courtyard lit by the sun, the human eye – and most microscopes – can't see individual photons. But sometimes this too-small-to-see information can be important. For example, a biomedical engineering lab might be doing an imaging study on a protein or an organic molecule that's emitting a signal too weak for traditional cameras to see. "You can send your photons to the core facility, which is equipped with an array of ultrasensitive cameras that can see things at the single photon level," Zhang said.</div>
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Traditionally, researchers used high-powered lasers to illuminate these biological samples, which were sometimes damaged in the process. Using entangled photons as an illumination source provides higher sensitivity, less illuminating power, and the same – or even higher – resolution. "Two entangled photons can be worth a million of their classical brethren, potentially allowing us to image deeper without harming tissue," Barton said.</div>
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<b>High-Precision Probing</b></div>
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These fiber-optic cables are a two-way street. Researchers can send their photons into the central hub to be imaged by the high-tech microscopes, but the center can also share entangled photons with labs across campus.</div>
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Entangled photons are interlinked pairs. Even when they're separated by large distances, anything that happens to one photon in an entangled pair will be transferred to the other one as well.</div>
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This relationship has several uses. For example, researchers can use photons as probes to help determine the nature of unidentified materials. The changes a material introduces to a photon, such as a change in color, provide clues to the material's identity. When one entangled photon in a pair is used as a probe, the material introduces changes to both photons in the entangled pair. "Now you can perform a measurement on both photons to learn about the sample being probed," Zhang said. "You can have twice as much information about the way the material is affecting the photon."</div>
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Entangled photons can also be used in quantum communication, a secure method of sending and receiving data that's designed to preclude eavesdropping. Before Party A shares any sensitive information with Party B, Party A sends a "quantum key," a series of entangled photons that serves as the code for decrypting future transmissions. Quantum keys are designed so that the very act of decrypting or reading their contents changes their contents.</div>
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If the quantum key arrives with any parts decrypted, the communicating parties know not to use that part of the key to encrypt future transmissions, because it has been "read" by hackers. The communicating parties can simply cut out that part of the key and use a new, shorter quantum key they know is secure.</div>
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Party A and Party B in the above example don't need to be quantum information scientists. Researchers across all kinds of disciplines can benefit from the unique features of entangled photons, and Inquire's aim is to allow for just that.</div>
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"This is a key area the National Science Foundation identifies as one of its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYcnq4iIs09%2BB1qxPn%2Fo6nH1ACYucMZlzUGevWcP6RSvZUEroahHAR8pUubiSh0hKj%2FFV24UtKHOO&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.gov%2Fnews%2Fspecial_reports%2Fbig_ideas%2F&I=20190124192332.000000d1cc4b%40mail6-43-usnbn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjNGExMDg3ZDcxZTA4NTBkMjczZDRlMzs%3D&S=Z8nUevoLzbfHKyYapmHxlRdDvMPngEDilOGqvSx8k8o">10 Big Ideas</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and really wants to push forward because it is so interdisciplinary," Zhang says. "It involves researchers across the boundaries of science, engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, math, optics – everywhere. The key question is 'How can everybody speak the same language, and how can they benefit from the progress made in other areas?'"</div>
Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-88477452326764850422019-04-11T11:15:00.000-04:002019-04-11T11:15:36.409-04:00Cardno’s Matt Herman earns Professional Engineer license in California<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cardno has announced that Matt Herman has earned his licensure as a Professional Engineer in the state of California. He has more than 15 years of experience providing engineering support for a variety of environmental<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">assessment and remediation</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>projects throughout California and the western United States.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Herman specializes in remediation system design and installation that includes feasibility testing, regulatory permitting and compliance, and operation and maintenance. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the California Maritime Academy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> and</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">works out of the firm’s Petaluma, CA office.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia and with offices throughout the Americas and Asia Pacific, Cardno</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a professional infrastructure and environmental services company with specialized expertise in the development and improvement of physical and social infrastructure for communities around the world.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cardno’s</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>team includes professionals who plan, design, manage, and deliver sustainable projects and community programs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">For more information, visit </span></span><a href="http://click.deliveryengine.agilitypr.com/wf/click?upn=QPw76JdlkxRfmRlwFs8pVoNGtUCAOXuNImvpvvL9kkM-3D_MjZzEuEoAvMbtAZ3RUeioZzfSAtrbG7kbXkZSWcbLi1vdp4PsRuXr0SoxyLSfJ-2B6S6l36qMVCE55Dfvb6i-2BxVbcvHfh0gFtx0x93xaGcC-2BG4F7x9wN2TrpRpx5khyadk075Oa4oxF-2BjBpcJfpQsrlGzoE9L8i-2BEB3V6NLs5dO-2FCxTS-2FcitXlxLn-2BwpIuS-2BGqngOL8gV1e-2FZB7AdEPoMz62OAeBsLQWPDjP11jVJZwUfvhc8lddaAHEW0Iw7EtSJQyXYdAcVrkH3LfrmzRavd6QmVZ2GECmPvF-2B7g4u0-2FD62NSav9X2SoNFo8tDOkZkV-2B5CGwgCA-2BEODy1xorMHOF1W6C8tkljfPKsQO7ie88we-2BkG9glSvC66adonLBoyeNvBT5SR0f2WuW0F7x7LBX9cRhlzVK6Rce5P71Z35BSH0Y-3D" style="color: #477f80;"><span style="color: #477f80; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline;">www.cardno.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></span>Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-47207936594906699292019-04-02T22:19:00.000-04:002019-04-02T22:19:25.627-04:00University of Massachusetts Boston facility attains LEED Gold certification<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The UMass Boston Residence Hall achieved LEED Gold certification for implementing practical and measurable strategies and solutions aimed at achieving high performance in sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. Some of the sustainable strategies and project attributes that helped the project achieve this level of certification include:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Water savings of 34% achieved by using low-flow showers, faucets, toilets, and urinals.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">An energy cost savings of 26.8% achieved through the implementation of a high-performance building envelope, energy recovery units, hot water efficiency, and 100% LEED lighting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
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A team of engineering firms did the engineering work required. Nitsch Engineering, with offices in eastern Massachusetts and Washington, DC, handled civil engineering. AHA Consulting Engineers, with offices in Lexington, MA and Arlington, VA, did the electrical engineering. And WSP, based in Montreal and with offices worldwide, handled mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering.</div>
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"As the first residence hall on our campus, this development created the opportunity for our students to have a traditional residential college experience," says Katherine Newman, interim chancellor, University of Massachusetts Boston. "We are especially pleased that it has achieved LEED Gold certification, as it aptly reflects our commitment to and our students' interest in sustainable development."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" />Capstone Development Partners, LLC develops student housing in the on-campus and university-affiliated student housing market. The company is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information please visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=TwIh0OIjG8BOSB67uKqqj1sO4S4EHfYLc-2BBy9IM25lvFnJonuZ8piSGyctLMlT2-2B_MjZzEuEoAvMbtAZ3RUeioZzfSAtrbG7kbXkZSWcbLi1vdp4PsRuXr0SoxyLSfJ-2B6mLsrbmZWIDxLbH8xJnFgwt-2FRj0EUzIzsHBj-2BCdGjof5ygzW2rbX4mRqEAEeZkt0c8NNbhy3DmAuyfzTZGQJAOZC9ifkUlHeyv1OPHvsVRvP8UmwZ5HZCOqGQrxVr9vq5zECD1-2FjeYNac0AvKMnTpirMgr2DxD3YYNsYc0KiF07lkDK6a4hecmKEV5Lj7ZBhujwPwUj4S-2B5q7Rk181CO7LQSQp-2F8qkl55z4jqxWb18KipID3m-2FRxrn0aik4u07QWgXqMTdlWXU-2B90gqS7b3VBNHt3XBra3WVmmy9Z225O2XsnzVBzllR-2B9HvIOtdTxNX2" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.capdevpartners.com.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SmithGroup, an integrated design firm, has elevated<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space">Tom Faucette </span>to lead its Science & Technology studio in Washington, DC. Adding Faucette to this role strengthens the company’s position as a designer of cutting-edge research environments in the Mid-Atlantic, across North America and internationally. Faucette, a principal, will be responsible for growing the firm’s share of the federal research, academic research, corporate R&D, and mission critical markets in the region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Faucette has nearly 20 years of experience in the planning and design of high-performance building systems and has been with SmithGroup for 17 years. His clients, including AstraZeneca, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the Internal Revenue Service, Old Dominion University, University of Delaware, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, among others, have benefitted from Faucette’s ability to develop resilient and sustainable critical building systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“Tom understands that the operational success of any research institution is core to its ability to fulfill its mission,” says Ed Burton, SmithGroup Science & Technology Practice director. “He is uniquely suited for the role of guiding our clients in their journeys of scientific discovery.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SmithGroup’s Science & Technology Practice<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>encompasses a spectrum of specialty expertise, including planning, programming, and design of academic research, corporate and governmental research and development, forensics, mission critical, and research parks and innovation districts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Faucette joins the practice’s leadership team to grow its position in the federal research, corporate R&D, academic research, forensics and mission critical markets, where clients include Lawrence Berkeley <span class="Apple-converted-space">National Laboratory,National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Data Center, National Institute of Standards & Technology </span> California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of California San Francisco, New York Police Department (NYPD), Promega Corporation, Caris Life Sciences, General Electric, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions, and Wanxiang Group Corporation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Faucette’s expertise ranges from project leadership to programming and design of systems for corporate and federal workplace and research facilities, higher education campuses, federal service contracts, cultural campuses and facilities, international embassies and large-scale resorts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Faucette earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland College Park and holds both a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a registered professional engineer in 11 states and a LEED accredited professional. A cycling enthusiast, Faucette rides with the Squadra Coppi, a DC metro area bicycle club and supports various bike advocacy groups. Faucette is a native of Mebane, North Carolina and currently resides in Kensington, Maryland.</span></div>
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Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-48061166496667456112019-03-19T14:31:00.000-04:002019-03-19T14:31:30.547-04:00Husson University holds its first Green Jobs Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Husson University held its inaugural Green Jobs Fair recently on its Bangor, Maine campus. Organized by AmeriCorps, the job fair provided students and other individuals interested in internships or employment the opportunity to meet with representatives from a variety of environmentally friendly organizations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Events like the Green Jobs Fair not only promote the sustainability industry, they also increase awareness of high paying, fulfilling jobs,” says Johanna Holman with AmeriCorps. “Like the Green New Deal, we’re hoping to help people become employed and combat climate change at the same time.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This was the first time Husson University hosted a Green Jobs Fair.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All of its students, regardless of major, were encouraged to participate. A variety of business and volunteer organizations had booths at the event. Representatives from renewable energy, farming, government, environmental monitoring, engineering, management, and other environmental and sustainability-related organizations were present.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There was no cost to attend and no need to register in advance, and the event was open to students, veterans, and members of the public.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">According to projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), occupations related to helping the environment or conserving natural resources will experience some of the strongest job growth over the next decade.<a href="x-webdoc://DC55316E-DB51-4492-8ADF-4AA9FEB8CBE0#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span style="vertical-align: super;"> </span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Two occupations that the BLS believes will have the fastest employment growth from 2016 to 2026 are solar photovoltaic installers (105-percent increase) and wind turbine service technicians (96-percent increase).<a href="x-webdoc://DC55316E-DB51-4492-8ADF-4AA9FEB8CBE0#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" title=""><span style="vertical-align: super;"><br /></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“Companies that incorporate environmental stewardship into their business model need to find qualified job applicants, just like other companies," says Dr. Tom Stone, an associate professor who co-directs the Environmental Science program at Husson. “Our Green Jobs Fair was focused on connecting these companies with job applicants who share the same environmental values."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">For more than 120 years,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Husson University<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has offered undergraduate and graduate degrees with a commitment to delivering affordable classroom, online, and experiential learning opportunities, Husson's Bangor campus and off-campus satellite education centers in Southern Maine, Wells, and Northern Maine, provide programs in business, health and education, pharmacy studies, science humanities, and communication. In addition, the university has an adult learning program. For more information, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://icm-tracking.meltwater.com/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=btYXC68syxnIlVIaW0qBweEUHWPFwuN5EgnqFgPj0oiC1OMl9zi1RnlIiMy67MuNPmIHmjq3qm0HqcJHdjAW%2BTQofw66mECBCAFQkcV9YNE%2F6l%2FOVpsiROtZ2ULsqaRhL4w74Tsv9eA%3D&G=0&R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.husson.edu%2F&I=20190308120005.0000004920db%40mail6-113-ussnn1&X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVjODFhNDU0ZDIyYzBhNzQ4YTY2N2VkZDs%3D&S=XTaVzfUbx17VdVyLjNTEC0RRSH7aCOaQskt70SNSuP8" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Husson.edu</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div>
Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-68436576898989115072019-03-10T21:41:00.001-04:002019-03-10T22:03:58.073-04:00Brown & Caldwell begins environmental work at Iron Creek cobalt mine<div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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First Cobalt Corporation has announced that it has engaged Brown and Caldwell at the Iron Creek Project in Idaho to provide guidance on permitting and to develop an environmental baseline study strategy. Trent Mell, First Cobalt President and Chief Executive Officer, comments: “Our strategy in 2019 is to advance and de-risk our two key assets: the Iron Creek Project and the First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario, Canada. Environmental and permitting work are critical next steps to progressing Iron Creek towards development. We are pleased to have the experience of Brown and Caldwell as we drive the project forward. On the heels of the maiden resource estimate announced in the fall, this is one of a series of technical programs initiated to help us determine the optimal mining and mineral processing design at Iron Creek. Baseline environmental data is critical to advancing the timeline toward production as we work towards developing an environmentally responsible source of cobalt in North America.”</div>
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Mell goes on to say,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>“Cobalt is essential for the growing electric vehicle market as it is used in lithium-ion batteries, and cobalt assets outside China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo remain exceedingly rare. There is no primary cobalt mining or refining in North America today, and the potential for First Cobalt to produce ethical cobalt in a safe jurisdiction allows us to stand apart.”</div>
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Brown and Caldwell's services will be provided from its Boise, Idaho office, which has extensive experience in project permitting, water management, environmental monitoring, and reclamation. The firm will provide permitting guidance and oversee the collection of environmental baseline data at the Iron Creek Project. Water quality data collection commenced in 2017 and is ongoing.</div>
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Responding to ongoing growth and a robust U.S. transportation market, HNTB Corporation added a new region and operating division and named these presidents to its leadership structure:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">James Thomson, PE, Northwest Division, a newly created division<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Keith Hinkebein, PE, Design Build, providing alternative delivery services nationally</li>
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"To respond to rapid growth and expanding market opportunities, we have prepared organizationally for an exciting future. These leadership moves help us open new opportunities to better serve our clients, grow office locations, and increase opportunities for our existing employees while continuing to add many new employees," says Rob Slimp, PE, HNTB chairman and CEO. "It also allows us to better leverage our leadership capacity to focus on the most critical geographies and opportunities."</div>
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As an engineering consultant to departments of transportation, transit agencies, airports and tolling authorities, and other public- and private-sector owners, HNTB is advancing on a strong growth trajectory. The firm currently is No. 16 on "The Top 500 Design Firms" list as ranked by revenue in Engineering News-Record, up three spots from last year.</div>
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Inabinet leads the Central Region, which encompasses the firm's Great Lakes and Central Divisions. Most recently serving as HNTB's Western Region president, Inabinet began his career with HNTB in 2005 in Austin, Texas, as a project manager. Inabinet has progressed through a number of leadership and operational roles in the firm's Austin, San Antonio and Arlington, Virginia, offices, as well as the Western Region.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Friel leads the Western Region, which includes the firm's Northwest and West Divisions. Friel has served in many significant roles of responsibility in his 25 years with HNTB. During the last five years, he successfully led the firm's Design Build unit, coordinating with offices and project teams throughout the firm, establishing strong relationships with contractor clients, and establishing firmwide processes while successfully delivering over $9 billion in constructed design-build and public-private partnership projects.</div>
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As president of HNTB's new Northwest Division, Thomson oversees Washington, Utah, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Alaska. Leader of the Northwest District since 2011, Thomson is credited for serving key clients, and offering expertise and guidance on large-scale programs to enhance and modernize multimodal transportation networks </div>
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Hinkebein leads the firm's Design Build national practice where he is responsible for the delivery of design-build projects on behalf of public sector owners or private sector contractors/concessionaires. He has served as president of two divisions, chief operating officer, chief sales officer, and chief delivery officer, among several other leadership roles at HNTB. Hinkebein works closely with regional and division presidents and office leaders to continue to elevate design-build so that it becomes an even larger contributor to HNTB's success.</div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" />HNTB Corporation is an employee-owned infrastructure firm serving public and private owners and contractors. Professionals nationwide deliver a full range of infrastructure-related services, including planning, design, and program and construction management. For more information, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=TwIh0OIjG8BOSB67uKqqj4nMYqcrR9UPXzZ18qr2Gr8-3D_MjZzEuEoAvMbtAZ3RUeioZzfSAtrbG7kbXkZSWcbLi1vdp4PsRuXr0SoxyLSfJ-2B6-2FO9cu7FjgAzohaGDmfCZHrwaSgzsv0FL5xMqt-2B1ZaNN-2FWgE2gspcxpCuDrabCngua8l1WFGwng9oWrtYlRdGsH9AQp-2FHDADgau-2FL-2FX18FUGkqdofI-2FuiEJodH-2BOjyVpBRXMj5T9R2V-2Bp3ZLfHD3jZQyMJ8Vyq2yY4dtJ6BAWszaQUtgRe8c8l-2BOvlXcS1IJz4X0lO6tqHhxh85h5LZufMZZrdpZPJ4ULe4Xnrnosj2VBowNJfiEvNpuDqOOrdyPNOZOyLWHGUWj87A0K4jPETUd-2FZd85dbjRg9F-2BFD1PORrWUS2NCsReiyP8YxatFgmL" style="color: blue; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;" target="_blank">www.hntb.com</a>.</div>
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Class One freight railroads and projects for transportation agencies such as
Metra (Chicago), the Chicago Transit Authority, SunRail (Florida), the Utah
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track record defining and executing strategy, managing programs and projects,
improving process, and engaging stakeholders,” says Julie D’Orazio, senior vice
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experience with all forms of mass transit—heavy and light rail, streetcars and
people movers, and bus rapid transit. The firm combines knowledge in
engineering design and construction-phase services with strategic consulting,
land use planning, and program management to provide clients with comprehensive
support from inception through operations, with a strong emphasis on making
transportation infrastructure truly sustainable. The firm’s experience in
transit-oriented development aids clients in fostering the creation of vibrant,
livable communities centered on transit. </span>The firm is rail delivery
partner to the <a href="https://www.wsp.com/en-US/projects/california-high-speed-rail">California
High-Speed Rail Authority</a> for a statewide high-speed rail system and is
providing engineering support for the <a href="https://www.wsp.com/en-US/projects/texas-bullet-train"><span style="color: black;">Texas Bullet Train</span></a> between Houston and Dallas. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1e252b; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The firm is also contributing to the
advancement of rail systems in Seattle; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Salt Lake
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engineering and professional services firms consisting of engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors,
and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs
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</style>Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-67038078727866658202019-01-18T23:05:00.000-05:002019-01-19T23:05:23.029-05:00Parfait Masungi escapes the Congo to find opportunity<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">Parfait
Masungi is one of the lucky ones. At the age of 15, he won a green card lottery
visa and with it, a ticket to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This was his chance to escape the country embroiled in “Africa’s World War,” the
Rwandan Genocide civil war where more than six million people were killed. His
home is the same place that became synonymous for the use of children as
soldiers and where thousands of kids work deep in the mines with bare hands to dig
for cobalt, the mineral that makes mobile phones possible. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">“The
future is death,” says Masungi about what youth in the DRC feel. “I couldn’t
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">The road
that led out of the DRC for Masungi started with walking seven miles each day
just to get to school. And on Saturdays, when kids usually play, he went
back to school to learn English instead. His daily life was made even
more dangerous as he had to be wary of guerrilla violence from the
encroaching war into the capital Kinshasa, where he lived. Many times,
curfews were the norm.<br />
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Then in November 2010, after a year of going through extensive interviews
with the American consulate, Masungi, with the rest of his family, landed in
Dallas, Texas. He knew his parents didn’t have the means to pay for a higher
education. Athletics became the path to excel and get into college as he
played football and track and field; however, he was diagnosed with a heart
condition that required emergency open heart surgery, cutting short any hopes
of athletic stardom.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Masungi leads middle school students on a tour of UTSA's downtown campus</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";"><br />Masungi learned about the University of Texas at San Antonio's engineering
program and applied to it. Four years later, he walked the commencement stage
with cum laude distinction in civil engineering. This year, he won “best
presenter in civil engineering” at the SACNAS (Society for Advancing
Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) convention and competed
against students from the nation’s most competitive schools including MIT and
UC Berkeley.<br />
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During his time at UTSA, Masungi worked on testing high-strength
reinforcement steel bars, a building component that promises to save energy
and money in new construction. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">The 80-ksi bars
are designed with spiral patterns that focus on flexure and anchorage
behavior. They are fabricated by cold working, long a method of producing
high-strength reinforcement below the recrystallization temperature.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">“In our study, we investigated the
mechanical properties and performance of the spiral steel in concrete slabs
by conducting monotonic tension tests. Current building codes in the United States
limit the use of high-strength reinforcing steel,” Masungi explains. “These
limitations are mainly due to a lack of profound research and understanding
and limited test data on the performance and effects of high-strength steel
in concrete structures.”</span></div>
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reinforced concrete has the potential to improve design methods in concrete
members and significantly reduce the quantity of steel used in construction.
This would reduce energy consumption related to fabricating, manufacturing,
and transporting the steel.</span></div>
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graduation, Masungi has an offer to start a PhD program at the
University of Florida, where he previously interned and assisted in the
development of a pilot program to work on algorithms that guide driverless
buses. Right now, he’s hoping to win a fellowship from the National Science
Foundation and perhaps pursue more training at UTSA so he can be close to his
sister, who currently attends the institution.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">As Masungi relates, “If I
receive the NSF Fellowship, I would like to pursue more training in
structural and transportation engineering. This would focus on high-strength
materials and sustainable design of reinforced concrete and structural steel
members and frames.” The top schools where he would like to pursue his
advanced graduate studies include Stanford, UTSA, Princeton, University of
Florida, or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";"><br />
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Although he’s only 22 years old, Masungi is mature beyond his age. Yes, he
has some unpleasant memories of the Congo, but he also feels a responsibility
to give back to other Congolese youth so they no longer envision a bleak
future. He wants to have his own engineering firm, set up educational
exchange programs, and export infrastructure technologies back home.<br />
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“I want to give Congo students the opportunity to come to the U.S. and get
that education. I don’t take being here for granted,” Masungi says.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This phase of Lifesaver testing at WETS has two primary aims: first, to improve device reliability and power performance, through alterations to the device mooring strategy, and second, to demonstrate an alternative means of powering oceanographic instrumentation without using utility-supplied electrical grid power or single-use batteries. The instrumentation, known as the Wave-powered Adaptable Monitoring Package (WAMP), is being tested on BOLT Lifesaver and was designed, assembled, and integrated with the WEC by the Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC), University of Washington, leveraging the capabilities of the Applied Physics Laboratory (a U.S. Navy University Affiliated Research Center) and the department of Mechanical Engineering. Receiving its power from the Lifesaver, the WAMP provides persistent underwater sensing, and supports unmanned, undersea vehicle (UUV) re-charge using a wireless power transfer system developed by Seattle startup Wibotic, Inc. The WAMP is the latest in a series of demonstrations of the core AMP technology and is being used in this application to better understand the marine environment around an operational WEC buoy.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The joint Lifesaver-WAMP test is funded by NAVFAC, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Science Foundation. The overall effort is part of a larger joint U.S. Navy, DOE, academic (University of Hawaii, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, and University of Washington PMEC), and industry research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) project. This is the world's first demonstration of the potentially transformative capability for WECs to enable persistent oceanographic observation and UUV re-charge without a cable to shore.</span>
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Daikin America has partnered with TOPS Friendly Markets to complete the first refrigeration conversion of a U.S. supermarket from R-22 to Creard R-407H refrigerant. At the TOPS store in Alden, NY, 1200 pounds of Creard R-407H has been used to provide more than 25 cooling tons in medium-temperature refrigerated cases and displays <br />
<br />Daikin's new Creard R-407H refrigerant is a low global-warming-potential (GWP) blend designed for new refrigeration systems and as a replacement for R-22, R-404A and R-507 in existing systems. Creard R-407H has a GWP of 1380, one of the lowest GWP options for refrigeration systems, providing a combination of performance while being economical relative to the products it is replacing. This comes in response to regulations to phase out ozone-depleting substances resulting from the Montreal Protocol.<br />
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Daikin engineers worked closely with TOPS to address key requirements:<br />
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<li>A GWP of less than 1500 to position TOPS with a sustainable solution for the useful life of the equipment in the event of any future climate related regulatory policies.</li>
<li>Equivalent or better energy efficiency and refrigeration capacity across the entire operating range.</li>
<li>A close match in temperature, pressure, and volumetric flow rate properties to R-22, to use the same expansion devices, distribution system, and piping.</li>
<li>Traditional chemistry, with proven material compatibility with legacy R-22 equipment.</li>
<li>Cost-effectiveness in long-term operation.</li>
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After the conversion from R-22 to Creard R-407H, the system was monitored for three months. Throughout the test, data was collected on operating pressures, temperatures, and energy consumption of the system. The power consumption during the test months when compared to R-22 was 2 percent higher after the first fill and system shakedown and then improved to 0.5 percent lower after the controller was tuned. The cooling capacity remained the same between R-22 and R-407H.<br />
<br />Tim Bowen, TOPS Markets maintenance manager, states, "Creard R-407H is a great help to TOPS Markets' bottom line due to its energy efficiency, cost, and requiring minimal changes to our equipment. Since Creard R-407H has demonstrated to be a low-GWP match with R-22, this really becomes a great solution for TOPS Markets as we move forward with our conversion program this year."<br />
<br />Daikin America provides refrigerant gases, fluoroplastic and fluoroelastomer polymers, and coating materials designed to support a diverse set of industries. It is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries of Osaka, Japan, a manufacturer of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment and fluorochemical products.<br />Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-53793182331541827592018-12-23T21:22:00.000-05:002018-12-23T21:22:12.695-05:00Sarah Wilson elected board chair at McMillen Jacobs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The McMillen Jacobs Associates board of directors has elected Sarah Wilson as board chair. Wilson is a vice president at McMillen Jacobs, where she has worked in tunnel design
and construction management for more than 19 years, and she has spent the past five
years in board service for the firm.</span></span><br />
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the appointment of women to board-of-director positions is hitting an all-time
high in 2018. But a recent ENR study found that to be strategic on current and
emerging issues, engineering and construction boards must better
embrace a diversity of experience and perspectives.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=774776659694487715#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked to comment on her appointment,
Wilson said, “I’m proud that McMillen Jacobs is on the cutting edge of the
industry with a woman board chair. My 8-year-old daughter is so aware of girls
and women as powerful forces in the world, and I hope to set a good example for
my 1-year-old son. We also have two outside directors that enrich our
collective experience on a very active board. I see the board chair’s
responsibility as driving communication between the board and company
management, and I’m lucky to be working with some extremely talented people.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Wilson’s leadership experience and
technical expertise stem from final design roles on transit, dam and water
conveyance facilities, and construction management experience on numerous
underground contracts in both soft ground and rock. Wilson received her B.S.
in Civil Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia and
was featured on the school’s “40 under 40” list in 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She earned her M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering
from the University of California at Berkeley. She has authored numerous
professional papers and articles on geotechnical and construction management
topics and is a past president of the American Rock Mechanics Association. She
is a CMAA certified construction manager and a registered professional civil
engineer in California.</span><br />
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engineering, and construction company providing
technical services to the heavy civil, underground, and water resources
markets. The firm has offices around the country and in Canada, Australia, and New England. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.mcmjac.com/">www.mcmjac.com</a>.</span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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By Brad Anderson<br />
Editor-in-chief of <a href="https://readwrite.com/">ReadWrite</a><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><br />It’s obvious: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are integral parts of everyone’s life. Since 2009, STEM has accounted for more than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertreiss/2018/07/22/chemours-ceo-shares-stem-education-holds-key-to-jobs-of-the-future/#120da9f860fe" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">800,000 new jobs</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the United States, more than double the number of new jobs in non-STEM sectors.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">That growth should be exciting, especially considering the boom of innovation that’s sure to follow. However, for companies that operate in STEM fields, the unprecedented growth is a little staggering. According to the Smithsonian Science Education Center, nearly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ssec.si.edu/stem-imperative" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">2.4 million STEM jobs</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will go unfilled by the end of this year.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Traditionally, a shortage of employees in a certain field most likely indicates a general lack of interest in that field, but that isn’t the case this time. The shortage is the result of the demand for STEM jobs growing at three times the rate of non-STEM jobs for about a decade, according to the SSEC.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">The scope of STEM is so broad that there’s bound to be a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.idtech.com/blog/futuristic-stem-jobs-and-career-list-for-students" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">related career path</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>no matter what students are interested in. Developing a workforce of more STEM-qualified individuals is a matter of introducing people to the possibilities and providing opportunities for training.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">New Ways to Teach STEM</b></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">In the most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, conducted in 2015, U.S. students ranked<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">38th and 24th</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>out of 71 countries in math and science, respectively. The National Math & Science Initiative reports that only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.idtech.com/blog/stem-education-statistics" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">36 percent</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of U.S. high school graduates are ready to take college-level STEM courses.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Knowing that STEM will soon dominate major aspects of virtually every industry, many stakeholders are aiding in efforts to focus on STEM education and encourage students to get excited about developing these skills. Here are just a few key things being done to boost STEM education to ensure that tomorrow’s workers will have the skills they need.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">1. Programs are taking learning outside the classroom.</b></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">While schools at all levels are making their STEM curricula more robust, there are also learning opportunities happening outside the classroom that are aiding in skill development, including after-school programs, summer camps, and tutoring. And the demand for STEM jobs nationwide is increasing interest in local programs to address the need.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">A</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://success.varsitytutors.com/stem-in-the-midwest/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">STEM growth report</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by Varsity Tutors, which provides concierge-level STEM tutoring and support, shows that STEM tutoring has boomed in the Midwest, especially in cities like St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati. The organization credits this increase in STEM learning to the number of companies offering flexible working conditions that allow employees to work remotely, which means Midwesterners can refine their skill sets to be competitive for these jobs wherever they’re located.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">2. Business leaders and educators are building bridges.</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"> </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Students aren’t the only ones with STEM skills learning on their minds. The educational institutions responsible for teaching them and the companies that will soon need to hire them are also expanding their reach by partnering. The Business-Higher Education Forum was created specifically for building such bridges, and in the face of the STEM skills shortage, those bridges are an even more vital resource.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Through BHEF, universities that offer undergraduate STEM programs can share their curricula with the local business community. Businesses can offer feedback and potentially chip in to expand the programs. For instance, Northrup Grumman Corporation and the University of Maryland, College Park joined forces to establish the first undergraduate residential</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bhef.com/our-work/build-partnerships" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">honors program in cybersecurity</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"> in an effort to better meet the demand for cybersecurity professionals in the state.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">3. Resources help parents and teachers make STEM relatable to their kids.</b></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">While businesses, universities, and community organizations work to connect STEM students with their futures, there are plenty of resources available for parents and teachers to make STEM more relatable and appealing to upcoming generations. Younger children may not fully realize the importance of STEM, but they can enjoy it when it’s fun.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Through informal educational activities, they can also prepare themselves to pursue an education that focuses on the STEM skills they’ll likely need. Programs such as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.engineeringforkids.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Engineering for Kids</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://stemminds.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">STEM Minds</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>offer a wide range of resources for parents and educators to make STEM learning exciting for children. These and other programs are designed to empower young minds by connecting the principles of science, technology, engineering, and math to fun projects and team exercises.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">It’s worrisome that current figures predict a potentially devastating shortage of STEM-related innovators in the U.S. economy very soon. However, it’s encouraging to see schools, companies, organizations, and parents working together to help students gain interest and knowledge in STEM fields.</span></div>
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Countless hours spent hunched over petri dishes, using needles to pluck tiny samples from bacteria colonies and place them in test tubes, are not the most exciting experiences for researchers in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/mbi/facultyandstaff/SethWalk.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">Seth Walk</a>'s lab at Montana State University. Walk, who studies the complex microbial communities in the human gut, had considered paying $70,000 for a robot to perform the time-intensive routine. But then he learned that MSU engineering students could make one for him.</div>
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His satisfaction with the MSU-made device was evident as he took a close look during the biannual Design Fair recently, when roughly 30 teams of engineering students displayed their senior capstone projects in the Strand Union Building ballroom. "They did a great job," said Walk, an associate professor in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/mbi/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">Department of Microbiology and Immunology</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in MSU's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://agriculture.montana.edu/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">College of Agriculture</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/lettersandscience/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">College of Letters and Science</a>.</div>
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The desk-sized research apparatus came to life with a few computer commands, its needle sliding into place above a petri dish. An optical sensor stood ready to scan the petri dish's contents, detecting dots that represented distinct bacteria colonies ready to be sampled. "With this, we'll grow the bacteria and then let the machine do the work, which frees up time to focus on our research," Walk said, noting that the device also sterilizes the needle in between each sampling.</div>
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Over the course of two semesters, the four-person capstone team — likely the first-ever all-female team in mechanical engineering — took Walk's request and created a product that needs only some software tweaks to be fully operational. "The students came up with the entire design," says team adviser<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/mie/directory/1524232/ronald-june" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">Ron June</a>, associate professor in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/mie/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering</a>.</div>
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"It was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it," recalls team member Tayler Fortner, a mechanical engineering major from Winnett, MT. Along with teammates Katelyn Kalberer and Anna Teintze, Fortner focused on designing the complex mechanical system that precisely moves the needle to sample the bacteria. "It was a very involved project," Fortner said. "It was an application of everything we've been doing in school."</div>
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"There was a big learning curve," said fourth team member Sandra Zmeu, who focused on the electrical and computer parts of the machine. To program the code that guides the machine's motions and controls the optical sensor, she had to learn two computer languages, she says. "It was a real learning experience," says Zmeu, who is heading to a job at Boeing in Seattle following<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/news/18225/msu-sets-2018-fall-commencement-on-dec-15" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">graduation</a>.</div>
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Mechanical engineering technology major Teintze, from Bozeman, MT, said she enjoyed the collaboration on the project. "Working with an enthusiastic team was really cool," she remarks. Kalberer agreed: "An important part of being an engineer is being able to work with other engineers," she says.</div>
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All seniors in MSU’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.coe.montana.edu/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>complete capstone projects as a requirement for earning their degrees. Working in teams and advised by MSU faculty — and sometimes sponsors from private industry — the students find solutions to engineering problems. Other projects at the Design Fair included solar-powered car components, a snowplow radar system, and self-activated ergonomic seating. "Several faculty members have had research equipment built by capstone teams," June says. "The teams are a major contributor to our research at MSU."</div>
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According to capstone coordinator<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.montana.edu/mie/directory/1524404/david-miller" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003f7f; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.7em; text-decoration: underline;">David Miller</a>, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, there is always a need for capstone sponsors. That presents an opportunity for MSU faculty who need any manner of customized equipment. He states, "The capstone projects solve real problems while providing an opportunity for students to learn."</div>
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Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-39597339943358803922018-11-26T21:40:00.000-05:002018-11-26T21:40:24.401-05:00USGBC announces LEED initiatives and updates at Greenbuild <br />
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The Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, presented by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), concluded recently in Chicago, where thousands of members of the global green building community gathered. The theme for this year’s Greenbuild was Human X Nature, representing how the green building movement embraces all of humanity by making sustainable buildings and environments accessible to everyone while benefitting the natural environment all around us.<br /><br />During the opening plenary, human rights lawyer and humanitarian Amal Clooney delivered a keynote that discussed her work and reminded attendees the role the green building community plays in addressing today’s challenges: “Despite challenges, I am optimistic. Because all around the world I see that even where governments fall behind, individuals and companies can make a difference,” said Clooney.<br /><br />USGBC President and CEO Mahesh Ramanujam also gave remarks highlighting plans for the future and USGBC’s role in creating a new living standard for all people: “In the past, we have delivered on our promises of certifications, signifying high quality spaces in which we can live and work,” said Ramanujam. “Now, by harnessing the power of our partnerships with companies and organizations the world over, we will explore creating a new campaign – a Living Standard that indicates that an environment is healthy and safe for all who inhabit it – from buildings, to communities, to cities, to entire nations. Because a higher Living Standard is what every person on the planet deserves.”<br /><br />Several programmatic updates to the LEED green building rating system were announced throughout the week including:<br /><br />LEED Transit Rating System – USGBC released LEED green building certification standards for new transit stations, which were also announced during Greenbuild India, taking place simultaneously. LEED Transit was developed with input from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation in India (DMRC), Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co. Ltd. for China (Shentong), and Shanghai Green City Architectural Technology Co., Ltd. With LEED Transit, transit owners can reduce their environmental footprint while engaging riders on the importance of sustainability and the opportunity the public transportation sector has in minimizing greenhouse gas emissions.<br /><br />LEED Zero Certification – USGBC officially introduced a new LEED Zero certification offering. The new program recognizes buildings or spaces operating with net zero carbon emissions from energy consumption and occupant transportation to carbon emissions avoided or offset over a period of 12 months. LEED projects can achieve LEED Zero certification when they demonstrate net zero carbon emissions, energy use, water use, or waste.<br /><br />Integration of STAR and LEED for Cities and LEED for Communities – It was announced that the STAR Community Rating System, which offers certification for sustainable communities, has been fully integrated into USGBC’s LEED for Cities and LEED for Communities programs to help advance sustainable cities and communities worldwide. Some 75 cities and communities have achieved STAR certification, and 20 additional cities and communities are seeking STAR certification. All of these localities will transfer into the family of LEED for Cities and LEED for Communities.<br /><br />LEED Recertification – All LEED projects – past, present, and future – are now eligible for recertification by providing 12 months of data, powered by Arc, that shows consistent or improved performance, using the most recent version of the LEED rating system. This recertification will be valid for three years and is an important step in ensuring that a green building is operating the way it was intended.<br />
<br />The week of Greenbuild also included green building tours around Chicago; three day-long immersive summits; the sold-out Women in Green luncheon; recognition of sustainability all-stars at the Leadership Awards Reception, including the announcement of 25 new LEED Fellows and this year’s USGBC Leadership Award recipients; a 600-vendor expo hall that featured a Net Zero Zone; and dozens of inspiring signature events and education sessions. Greenbuild concluded with San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel, who was recognized by USGBC for the City of Chicago’s LEED Platinum certification.Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-10062186301499161292018-10-29T09:48:00.000-04:002018-10-29T09:49:52.693-04:00TKDA names Andy Wagstrom vice president of its Rail Division<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TKDA, an employee-owned provider of engineering, architecture, and planning services, has named Andy Wagstrom, PE, as vice president of the firm’s Rail Division. A TKDA employee for several years, he has extensive experience serving the rail industry across the United States and Canada.<br />
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Wagstrom has worked on a wide variety of projects, including mainline, bridge, automotive, yard and industrial track. He has experience with the design and construction of fueling facilities, bulk storage containment, yard air, industrial waste systems, and other railroad support facilities. He also has been involved with intermodal and automotive facility expansion projects, helping railroads increase capacity to meet growing business needs.<br />
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“Andy has a strong background of rail projects that have spanned the country, and that experience will serve him well as he heads up our growing and diverse Rail Division,” says Tom Stoneburner, TKDA president and CEO. “He is a natural leader, and he knows the rail industry and our clients well.”<br />
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Wagstrom has a civil and environmental engineering degree from South Dakota State University at Brookings. He is a member of American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association and is registered in several states and Canadian provinces.<br />
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TKDA serves the rail industry from offices in St. Paul and Duluth, MN and Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. “TKDA has been serving rail clients for our entire 108-year history. I am honored to have this opportunity,” Wagstrom says.<br />
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Headquartered in St. Paul, TKDA serves a broad range of public and private markets. For more information, visit tkda.com. Tom Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348358434604371659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774776659694487715.post-64755831113086254302018-10-18T23:51:00.001-04:002018-10-19T22:13:14.475-04:00Matt Cole starts new electrical engineering firm in Chattanooga, TN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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launching </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 Phase Associates,</span> a new electrical engineering consulting firm in Chattanooga, TN.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Cole finally said “life
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Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. degree in engineering management</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is a licensed engineer in eight
states in the Southeast. Cole’s
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engineering consulting business serves utilities in substation modifications or
architecture-engineering firms for electric facility modifications.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>The company offers
substation design, construction, testing, commissioning, and project management.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> They focus on
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expertise include power substation modifications for protection and controls,
relaying, SCADA, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and more. The firm
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cole says, “It’s more
than just another engineering and design company. 3 Phase focuses on
performing the design and engineering drawing packages required for
construction and then helps with the install, implementation and
commissioning.”</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It has always been a
dream of Cole’s to own his own firm.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I am very
proud and excited to be using my engineering background along with my 22-plus
years of experience to grow 3 Phase Associates into a solid, reputable, and
sustainable company while striving to keep engineering consultant rates low
and competitive," </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cole says. </span></span></div>
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