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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories secures bridge funding
December 17th, 2020
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. has secured $950,000 in bridge financing and simultaneously filed with the SEC to become a mandatory, fully reporting company. The company recently filed a Form 8-A to become a fully reporting issuer. “While being a voluntary filer, Kraig has been committed to meeting all SEC filing and reporting standards. Our election […]
ASCE, MRCTI and U.S. Chamber of Commerce to host press teleconference on infrastructure resilience Dec. 16
December 16th, 2020
Call on president-elect to champion new level of local resilience On Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at 10 a.m. Central, Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI) mayors joined by U.S. Chamber of Commerce and ASCE representatives will urge Congress to pass the bipartisan Resilience Revolving Loan Fund bill, S. 3418, STORM Act. The impact of […]
Registration open for DFI Middle East online conference
December 16th, 2020
Registration is open for the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Middle East conference being held online on Feb. 16–18, 2021. The theme of the fifth DFI Middle East conference is “Geotechnical Engineering for Delivering Sustainable, Cost-Effective Projects.” There are four technical sessions: Deep foundation pilingEffective and sustainable designGround improvementDeep mixing and QC/QA for grouted elements This […]
NCTO welcomes House passage of NDAA
December 16th, 2020
The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), representing the full spectrum of U.S. textiles from fiber through finished sewn products, welcomes House passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of Fiscal Year 2021. “We applaud the House of Representatives for passing the NDAA, a bill that will strengthen the Berry Amendment, which supports tens […]
FGI offers webinar on the Yeager Airport RSS failure
December 15th, 2020
The Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (FGI) will sponsor a webinar, “Yeager Airport RSS Failure: Forensic Limit Equilibrium and FLAC Analyses,” on Jan. 14, 2021, at Noon CST. The webinar is free to industry professionals and students, and 1.0 professional development hour (PDH) is available. This webinar will discuss the forensic limit equilibrium and continuum deformation analyses used […]
Civil engineers to grade Utah’s infrastructure through virtual news conference Dec. 16
December 15th, 2020
The Utah Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will unveil its preliminary findings from the 2020 Report Card for Utah’s Infrastructure tomorrow, Dec. 16, 2020, through a virtual news conference. The full report will be released in early January 2021 and will be accessible on the state’s Report Card page, which currently […]
Presto GEOWEB slope protection with ATRA Tendon Clips
December 15th, 2020
In North Yorkshire, U.K., 20 months of work has been completed by Balfour Beatty on a $21 million (£16 million) scheme to stabilize the cliff between Scarborough Spa and the Esplanade on Scarborough’s South Cliff. Installing the GEOWEB Geocell Soil Retention System The South Cliff Slope Stabilization Scheme involved piling along the rear of the […]
MMI Textiles to expand operations with new production facility
December 15th, 2020
MMI Textiles Inc., a global diversified supplier of industrial and custom fabrics and textile components based in Westlake, Ohio, will open a 30,000-square-foot production facility in North Carolina to begin producing select narrow fabrics during the first quarter of 2021. The new facility in Lenoir, N.C., will focus on manufacturing and printing narrow fabrics, including […]
Rush & Company promotes McFadden
December 15th, 2020
Rush & Company has named Kimber McFadden as Vice President of Nonwovens and Industrial Textiles. Since joining the company in 2012, McFadden has dedicated her work to finding successful candidates for clients in the textiles and nonwovens industry. McFadden transitioned to the recruitment field from a successful career in real estate. Her work creating and […]
ASCE honors Berg
December 14th, 2020
Ryan R. Berg, P.E., D.GE, of Ryan R. Berg & Associates Inc., in Woodbury, Minn., has been honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) with the 2021 Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award “for his expertise in geosynthetic-reinforced earthworks and retaining structures and for his lifelong contributions to the developments and applications of […]