WaterBriefs: New pipeline publication available
In other news below:
-- South Metro Water Supply Authority hires new executive director
-- Celebrating 40 years with Carmody Company Inc.
-- Hatch Mott MacDonald and Hatch consolidate infrastructure businesses in Atlantic Canada
-- Sherwin-Williams wins award for superior service
-- Aqua America announces the appointment of new investor relations director
-- Online registration now open for Emerson Global Users Exchange 2007
-- GE Fanuc announces the addition of Softing as Proficy Process Systems technology partner
-- CH2M HILL expands regional design group in Phoenix
• New pipeline publication available
-- Over 300 projects worldwide assessed in a 400-page book by one of industry's leading authorities
NEW MILFORD, CT, July 4, 2007 -- With more than 30 years of experience, Dr. Jey K. Jeyapalan, P.E., is an expert in the design, construction and management of underground pipeline projects as a civil engineer, lecturer and author. He has recently published Advances in Underground Pipeline Design, Construction and Management, a thorough compilation of Dr. Jeyapalan's projects, lectures and writings on the subject. Written over a 23-year period, during which Dr. Jeyapalan's group performed work, advised and lectured over 5,000 owners, utilities, regulators, pipe manufacturers, trade associations, engineers and contractors on every continent, Advances in Underground Pipeline Design, Construction and Management is intended to be the one source needed to understand the pipeline industry, in all its diversity and complexity...
Among other recent headlines:
• South Metro Water Supply Authority hires new executive director
DOUGLAS and ARAPAHOE COUNTIES, CO, July 3, 2007 -- The South Metro Water Supply Authority (SMWSA), an organization consisting of 13 cooperating water providers in Douglas and Arapahoe Counties, is pleased to announce the addition of Rod Kuharich to its staff. Kuharich will serve as the organization's executive director and is responsible for SMWSA's day-to-day operations. He will also help facilitate the development of long-term and reliable water resources for the collective membership...
• Celebrating 40 years with Carmody Company Inc.
CHESAPEAKE, VA, July 3, 2007 -- Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America (SMA), one of 30 Sumitomo Power Transmission and Controls companies united under the Sumitomo Drive Technologies brand, has been a leader in the United States' Power Transmission market for over 40 years. In June of 1966, Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America began operations in a small 5,000 square feet facility in Carlstadt, New Jersey. The original 6 staff members handled all of the business functions and shipped about 100 units in that first year. Over the next 40 years, SMA grew rapidly to become one of the most dominant power transmission suppliers in the Americas with 9 facilities and over 300 employees. The SMA headquarters, located in Chesapeake, Virginia since 1988, symbolizes the excellent growth of the last 40 years...
• Hatch Mott MacDonald and Hatch consolidate infrastructure businesses in Atlantic Canada
MILLBURN, NJ, July 3, 2007 -- Hatch Mott MacDonald is pleased to announce that the Hatch-Atlantic infrastructure practice will become part of the company through a transaction in which Hatch, a principal owner in Hatch Mott MacDonald, consolidates this infrastructure business into the Hatch Mott MacDonald organization. Hatch-Atlantic's other principal business lines, including their mining, metals, and energy services, will continue to be offered to clients under the Hatch-Atlantic banner...
• Sherwin-Williams wins award for superior service
CLEVELAND, OH, July 3, 2007 -- The Sherwin-Williams Company has been named the "2006 Best Supplier of the Year" by Steel Plus Network's 80 steel fabricator members. Founded in 1995, Steel Plus Network is a group of 80 steel fabricating companies with plants in the United States and Canada. Sherwin-Williams is a preferred member supplier of the Steel Plus Network, along with 35 other suppliers who work collaboratively with its fabricators. Steel Plus Network works to create and strengthen business ties between steel fabricators and preferred suppliers in order to establish long-lasting relationships. It offers programs, training and business development opportunities to its members.
• Aqua America announces the appointment of new investor relations director
BRYN MAWR, PA, July 2, 2007 -- Aqua America Inc. announced the appointment of Kevin Brophy as director, Investor Relations. Brophy takes the place of Christopher Purtill, who resigned to pursue a new role in the equity research field...
• Online registration now open for Emerson Global Users Exchange 2007
-- User-driven conference focuses on application of Emerson's enabling technologies and services
AUSTIN, TX, July 2, 2007 -- Online registration is now open for the 2007 Emerson Global Users Exchange Conference to be held September 10-14 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Registering online by July 30 will save 25 percent in registration fees. The Emerson Global Users Exchange, Engineering Revolution-Are You Ready?, will feature educational and leadership sessions for all levels of process manufacturing professionals. The annual conference is one of the industry's most comprehensive collections of user-driven presentations and workshops on technology selection and application, investment justification and automation strategy...
• GE Fanuc announces the addition of Softing as Proficy Process Systems technology partner
-- Proven technologies provide framework for contemporary solution for hybrid and continuous process control
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, July 2, 2007 -- GE Fanuc Automation, a unit of GE Industrial, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Softing North America of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to provide Foundation fieldbus connectivity to the upcoming release of GE Fanuc's new Proficy® Process Systems solution for Process Control. Proficy Process Systems is GE Fanuc's process control system designed to deliver value to hybrid and continuous customers in industries including Life Sciences, Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods, Ethanol, Oil & Gas, Power & Energy, Milled Products and Water/Wastewater. GE Fanuc currently serves thousands of customers in these process industries today, and Proficy Process Systems represents a significant addition to the company's product offering, officials reported...
• CH2M HILL expands regional design group in Phoenix
PHOENIX, July 2, 2007 -- CH2M HILL, a global full-service engineering, construction and operations firm, is expanding its regional design group in Phoenix to support a growing number of local and regional water, transportation and environmental projects. Additionally, the regional design group will provide services during construction for Phoenix area design-build projects. This local expertise allows for greater project connectivity and responsiveness with the client, and more in-depth knowledge of the local regulations that could impact design.
The group currently delivers small- and medium-size projects and has plans to double in size over the next two years. The group includes Arizona-licensed senior leads for each of the design disciplines. Among the breadth of engineering services offered are the design, specification and commissioning of water/wastewater treatment facilities; storage and conveyance systems; arsenic removal; irrigation pumping; storm water and surface water management; solid waste handling; hazardous site remediation and land restoration; roadways and streets; security systems; power distribution control and transmission systems; supervisory control and data acquisition; local and wide area networks; communications; lighting; solar power; and composting.
The Phoenix group is currently supporting design for projects such as a well conveyance system for the Town of Oro Valley; design of a treatment facility to treat water to be removed from a former underground copper mine, which will allow the mine to be extended to reach new ore deposits; and the Southern Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project for Tucson Water, which will design a canal turnout, flowmeter vaults and a conveyance pipeline to transport water to new recharge basins.
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