Tag: Virginia
Restoring bird habitats while sustaining ours
By JoAnne Castagna, Ed.D.
This past spring, Dr. Lenore Tedesco was looking out her window at The Wetlands Institute that sits in the middle of...
Landfill or Stormwater Detention?
The Choice is Obvious According to This P. E.
Many times, a site will need to be drastically excavated and sculptured to meet the building...
Transforming Communities Through Brownfields Redevelopment
Three Lessons from a Virginia Town’s Decade of Success
By Deborah K. Flippo and Shawn Utt
The promise of brownfields redevelopment is that once-blighted property seen...
Reinforced Earth Walls Support Northern Virginia’s First Diverging-Diamond Interchange
About 40 miles west of Washington, DC along the I-66 corridor, Prince William County, Virginia has been experiencing rapid growth. In Haymarket, VDOT implemented...
Wagman Heavy Civil, Inc. Breaks Ground on Route 7 and Battlefield Parkway Interchange
(York, Pa.) Wagman Heavy Civil, Inc. broke ground along with officials from VDOT, Loudoun County and the Town of Leesburg on Tuesday, October 15,...
Parsons Relocates Headquarters to Washington, D.C. Area
In late February, Parsons announced the relocation of the company’s corporate headquarters from Pasadena, Calif., to the Washington, D.C., capital region, specifically to the company’s existing facility in Centreville, Va.
Waller, Todd & Sadler Project Wins APWA Project of the Year Award
The Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center was awarded the 2019 American Public Works Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter Project of the Year Award. Waller, Todd & Sadler, a Woolpert Company, designed the $27 million, 63,000-square-foot site.
Dominion Energy grid transformation paves way for new solar and wind development
Dominion Energy is committing to having 3,000 megawatts of new solar and wind — enough to power 750,000 homes — under development or in operation by the beginning of 2022.
VDOT releases draft RFP to deliver new Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) released the draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Interstate 64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project. The draft RFP contains instructions to short-listed firms for developing individual approaches to best deliver the HRBT Expansion Project as a design-build contract.