METRO Board Members, executive leadership, and elected officials, including Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee and Lizzie Fletcher, joined community members to celebrate a major milestone — the completion of 2,500 universally accessible bus stops. Upgrades at these stops include sidewalk, wheelchair ramp, and bus shelter foundation improvements. The enhancements benefit everyone by providing safety and comfort,…
NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight to the International Space Station using American rockets to launch spacecraft from American soil with the second uncrewed test flight of a commercial crew spacecraft. NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is targeting the launch of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a…
The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority met on Tuesday, April 26 for its regular monthly meeting. Port Chairman Ric Campo opened the meeting by announcing multiple outstanding achievements for the Houston Ship Channel and by Port Houston. One of the most notable was a recent agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of…
June 2022
The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) is proud to present the 51st Annual NOMA International Conference Unplugged on October 26–30, 2022. So what does ‘Unplugged’ mean? At the 51st Annual Conference, over 1000 professional designers from across the nation plan to cut loose from our routine of staying indoors by ‘unplugging’ from our ritualistic…
The 10 Most Innovative Architecture Firms in 2022 Explore the full 2022 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 528 organizations whose efforts are reshaping their businesses, industries, and the broader culture. Architects are masters at taking novel ideas and turning them into physical spaces. The firms on this year’s list of the 10 most…
Construction employment increased in three-fourths of U.S. metro areas between March 2021 and March 2022, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new government employment data. Association officials noted that labor shortages likely kept many firms from adding even more workers during the past year. “It is heartening to see…
El Paso’s Veliz Construction was named the 2022 Diverse Business of the Year award winner by the Associated General Contractors of America, association officials announced recently. The association also awarded Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Awards, which are sponsored by WTW, to Austin Commercial, Hensel Phelps, Millstone Weber, LLC, and Central Builders. “These awards recognize firms…
The Associated General Contractors of America and Procore Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: PCOR), a leading global provider of construction management software, announced recently they have met their initial fundraising goal of $500,000 for a new scholarship to support minority students studying construction at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges & Universities, or HBCUs for short. Students will…
The University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as Kansas State University and Boise State University were named the nation’s most outstanding student construction chapters of 2021, the Associated General Contractors of America announced today. The student chapters were each honored for one of three categories: Emerging Student Chapter Award, Community Service Award, and Construction Management…
CenterPoint Energy urges customers to call 811 before beginning projects that require digging to prevent damage to essential underground utilities and keep communities safe. With warmer weather, outdoor projects begin such as gardening, building a fence, installing a mailbox, or installing a pool. Before beginning the work, customers should request that the approximate location of…
By Dana C Sotoodeh, CPS Energy Contributing Writer San Antonio maintained its rank as first in Texas and fifth in the nation for total solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the eighth edition of the Environment Texas Research & Policy Center’s report Shining Cities: The Top U.S. Cities for Solar Energy. The city is home to…
Innodisk, a leading global provider of industrial flash and memory solutions, reflects on its AIoT wins of last year and outlook for 2022. Even now, in 2022, AIoT is still a buzz that’s impossible for business leaders to ignore however many are still not exactly sure how the pieces of the AIoT puzzle fit together…
