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ARTBA: Design and Construct More Forgiving Roadways to Save More Lives and Reduce Injuries

April 10, 2019

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) April 9 called for a fundamental shift in how the nation approaches road safety, emphasizing the need to design and build a transportation network that better compensates for error so that drivers, passengers, workers and other road users don’t pay for behavioral mistakes with their lives. ... Read More...

Transportation

OSHA Provides Compliance Assistance Resources to Protect Workers from Falls

March 27, 2019

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed a collection of compliance assistance resources to address falls in the workplace, the leading cause of worker fatality in the construction industry. ... Read More...

Management FilesSafety

Toward safety, efficiency, and sustainability

March 1, 2019

NYU Tandon School of Engineering establishes Institute of Design and Construction Innovations Hub Committed to maximizing safety, efficiency, and sustainabilit... Read More...

Continuing Education

Three GPS benefits

November 1, 2018

Location and spatial data can improve productivity, safety, and surveying for heavy civil construction. By Joshua Progar Does the phrase “over schedule and ov... Read More...

UAV + Surveying

Construction site safety

November 1, 2018

Five reasons IoT wireless geotechnical monitoring is key to reducing safety risks. By Juan Perez Construction sites are dangerous places. With so much heavy m... Read More...

Software + Tech

Safety by design

November 1, 2018

OSHA guidelines cover workers in the field environment at large but don’t drill down to some of the details of specific standard operating procedures for engine... Read More...

Management Files

AECOM-ARTBA partnership enhances transportation site safety

May 21, 2018

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) announced a formal partnership with AECOM aimed at strengthening the leading global infrastructure firm’s position in the design, construction and management of safer transportation infrastructure projects.... Read More...

Continuing EducationManagement FilesSafety

At least $125 million available to Indiana communities for rail overpass projects

May 14, 2018

The Indiana Department of Transportation will make available at least $125 million for high-priority railroad safety projects on local roads statewide through the agency’s new “Local Trax” matching grant program. ... Read More...

MidwestProject DeliveryStructures + BuildingsTransportation

Video rendering supports city master plan

May 14, 2018

Ennis City Commissioners introduced a video presentation of the new rendering of the future Union Pacific Safety Zone in downtown Ennis. The UPRR Safety Zone project is one of the critical components of the city’s Downtown Master Plan.... Read More...

Structures + BuildingsTransportation

Transportation

Air Travel Consumer Report: February 2019 Numbers

Proposed Updates to FTA’s Joint Development Guidance | Seeking Comments

Grant to study how driver behavior is impacted by autonomous vehicle technology

UAV

raSmith Promotes Sturm to Director, Zodrow to Assistant Director of Survey

Topcon introduces heads-up display for hands-free construction layout

Leica Geosystems introduces entry-level construction layout tool

Continuing Education

PYRAWALL® – THE MOST DURABLE VEGETATED WALL SOLUTION

2019-2020 ACI Foundation Fellowship and Scholarship Recipients Announced

Terracon Foundation Awards $7,500 Grant to the University of Arkansas to Support Graduate Students in Civil Engineering

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A lonely coast

Q&A: Evolution of training and technology

Innovative Columns Support New Orleans Airport

safety

ARTBA: Design and Construct More Forgiving Roadways to Save More Lives and Reduce Injuries

OSHA Provides Compliance Assistance Resources to Protect Workers from Falls

Toward safety, efficiency, and sustainability

Three GPS benefits

Construction site safety

Safety by design

AECOM-ARTBA partnership enhances transportation site safety

At least $125 million available to Indiana communities for rail overpass projects

Video rendering supports city master plan