A young Boston-area start-up, ManufactOn has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Autodesk, which plans to integrate ManufactOn's cloud and mobile software for optimizing materials and prefabrication supply-chain management with Autodesk's BIM 360 construction management platform. The partnership was announced on Sept. 18.
The University of Maine’s Volturnus offshore floating wind-turbine design has passed a two-year review by the American Bureau of Shipping, the university announced in a Sept. 14 statement.
In conjunction with climate week, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority plans to issue $574-million worth of mostly sustainable bonds on Sept. 26, the agency announced in a statement.
The New Hampshire Dept. of Transportation began Rush inspections of 16 red-listed bridges on Sept. 6 after a large piece of concrete fell off the N.H. Route 102 Bridge onto moving traffic on I-93 in Derry, N.H. a week earlier.
Jacobs Engineering Group’s intended purchase of CH2M, announced on Aug. 2, has apparently cost the latter its $57-million construction-management contract for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Green Line extension.
Rhode Island’s subpar infrastructure system has consistently ranked among the worst in the country, but the Ocean State is finally fixing its crumbling roads and bridges.