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NEW YORK, N.Y. — Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) has announced that Richard A. Schrader has been appointed chairman, succeeding Keith J. Hawksworth, who is retiring after 33 years with the firm.…

SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) has announced a new chairman and the addition of eight new members to its board of directors. John P. Simmet, president…

NORFOLK, VA. — Clark Nexsen has been selected to receive the first-ever Excellence in Construction Information Award (Innovation category) from the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Specifications Consultants in Independent…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One of the nation’s most effective and efficient alternative delivery methods of construction that bridges the public and private sectors in partnership is the topic of a…

Tampa, FLA. — The PBSJ Corporation (PBSJ) has entered into a definitive merger agreement by which WS Atkins plc, the world’s 11th largest design firm, will acquire PBSJ in an…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West, LLC (PLDW), and the Design-Build Institute of America, New England Chapter, held “Navigating Design-Build: Best Practices and Principles from Owner Representatives and…

FORT WAYNE, IND. — Steel Dynamics Inc. has announced it has agreed to acquire from affiliates of Commercial Metals Company (CMC), certain facilities and assets of CMC’s former steel-joist manufacturing…

CHICAGO — The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) Student Education Judging Committee has selected the winners of the Engineering Student Design Competition, also known as the Big Beam Contest. First-place winners…

FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — Technology can be both an enabler and a disabler of effective communication among architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firms. Too much reliance on e-mail and instant…

Tweet TAMPA, FLA. — WS Atkins plc officially completed its acquisition of The PBSJ Corp., parent company of PBS&J and Peter R. Brown Construction, Inc., on Oct. 1, 2010. This…

NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Economist has announced that United States Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, world-renowned architect Frank Gehry and others will participate in its upcoming Ideas Economy: Intelligent…

SWEET BRIAR, VA. — Hurt & Proffitt Inc. (H&P), a Lynchburg, Va.-based civil engineering and surveying firm, is collaborating with Sweet Briar College to expand its cultural resource management services.…