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HOUSTON, July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Energy Holdings International, Inc. (EHII) through its wholly owned subsidiary Advance Energy has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bangladesh Power development Board (BPDB) to develop a 200 MW single cycle electrical power generation plant with a future expansion of up to a 450 MW combined cycle facility in the country of Bangladesh. Technical expertise for the project is being provided to EHII by Parsons Brinkerhoff, one of the...

MILAN, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction technology firm Aconex has been selected by consortium Eurolink to provide its online project collaboration solution to the euro 6.1 billion Strait of Messina Bridge project in Italy. Aconex will be used to manage information and link the international organizations involved in the infrastructure works of the project. Aconex will provide the entire project team with a common, web-based platform for managing project information such as drawings,...

Research Highlights New Starts Program as One of the Only Performance-Oriented Discretionary Funding Programs WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new research paper released last week highlights features of the New Starts program that are relevant for broader efforts to make transportation policy more performance-oriented. The paper, "New Starts: Lessons Learned from Discretionary Federal Transportation Funding Programs," was prepared for the Bipartisan Policy Center's National...

NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology firm Aconex has been selected by international engineering and design consultancy Arup to provide its online collaboration system to the Hunter's Point South development in Long Island City, Queens. Aconex will be used to manage information and link organizations involved in the infrastructure works of the project, which will be New York's largest affordable housing development for 30 years. Hunter's Point South will be a mixed-use development...

Parsons Brinckerhoff, an engineering and construction management company, has tapped Verizon Business to build and manage a secure internet protocol communications network, under a three-year, $5 million agreement. The agreement covers all communication and IT services, including professional security and managed network services, and technology equipment. The new Verizon Business network will link Parsons Brinckerhoff's (PB's) New York City-based headquarters with more than 150 sites across...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), a leading global infrastructure consulting, planning, engineering and construction management company, has tapped Verizon Business to build and manage a secure, state-of-the-art Internet protocol (IP) communications network, under a three-year, $5 million agreement. The agreement covers all communication and IT services, including professional security and managed network services, and technology equipment. The new...

By CASEY ROSS After repeatedly bashing safety oversight by the Big Dig's top management consultant, the Romney administration quietly tapped the controversial firm to inspect repairs of the Interstate 90 ceiling system that collapsed and killed a woman in July, the Herald has learned. A spokesman for Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff said the firm has been conducting daily field inspections of remedial work inside the I-90 Seaport connector tunnel - essentially the same role it played before the...

BOSTON (Reuters) - The family of a woman killed when slabs of cement fell from the ceiling of Boston's "Big Dig" highway tunnel project filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and contractors. The husband and eldest daughter of Milena Del Valle, 38, who was killed when a 3-ton portion of tunnel ceiling fell on her car on July 10, blamed "reckless" and "negligent" construction in the suit. They did not specify the amount of damages sought....

By Jason Szep BOSTON (Reuters) - The number of suspect areas in Boston's troubled "Big Dig" quadrupled on Thursday as an investigation deepened into a fatal tunnel collapse that shook confidence in America's most expensive public works project. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney asked state lawmakers to give him control over inspecting the $15 billion engineering project that has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal and marred by delays, leaks, cost overruns and scandals. "The...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts' attorney general is demanding that contractors refund $108 million for poor work on Boston's "Big Dig," which is the biggest public works project in U.S. history and has been plagued by leaks and delays. Attorney General Tom Reilly's office plans to sue Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and other companies if the two sides do not reach an agreement over some 200 complaints of shoddy work in putting a major highway running through downtown Boston...