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SUPPLIER NEWS Autodesk, Inc., and Bentley Sys- venture between Jacobs Engineering tems, Inc., both providers of design and Group Inc. and CH2M Hill, has been seinfrastructure software, reached an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering and construction software. lected to receive a construction management services contract from Sound Transit to connect the three most-densely-populated urban centers in Washington State: downtown Seattle, Capitol Hill/First Hill and the University District. relocated to a larger office in Chicago at 300 South Wacker, Suite 2300. Ansaldo STS appointed Dr. Alan E. Calegari president and ceo of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Union Switch & Signal. Fran Chinnici, vice president of purchasing and materials for CSX Transportation, officially opened Unitrac’s expanded trackwork plant in Knoxville, Tenn., in late June. The plant virtually doubled in size to about 40,000 square feet. Also in attendance were: Randy Bowman, engineer track material, Mike Gowland, engineer of material, and Lee Ann Brooks, manager purchasing maintenance of way, all of Norfolk Southern. Cambridge Systematics, Inc., recently formed a business unit focused exclusively on servicing its clients’ freight transportation needs. Parsons, in conjunction with Kiewit Southwest Co. and Herzog Contracting Corp., has been selected by the Utah Transit Authority to build Salt Lake City’s Mid-Jordan Light Rail Line. As the Engineer of Record, Parsons will be responsible for the $220-million, 11-mile extension, which will run from the Fashion Place West Station on the North/South Line in Murray west through Midvale and West Jordan along the Union Pacific right-of-way, then south to the new Kennecott Daybreak development in South Jordan. DMJM Harris was recognized by the readers of Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology magazine as a 2008 Best Diversity Company. Eco-Vent, a continuous tile-over-ridge vent offered by EcoStar, has been selected as one of the 100 Best New Products by Professional Builder magazine. GE Transportation Simonelli president and ceo. named Lorenzo The Cleveland Regional Transit Authority added $346,000 to the design budget for a new rail station at East 55th Street, bringing the total to $1.3 million for Hatch Mott McDonald. Also, RTA authorized a $1.1-million contract with City Architecture for architectural and engineering services to relocate the East 120th Street Station and rebuild the Mayfield Rail Station and track bridge. The Seattle Tunnel and Rail Team, a joint RailComm, Inc., has provided a wireless switch heater remote control system for the Maryland Transportation Authority’s Baltimore Northwest Yard. Also, RailComm commissioned a Yard Automation System for Transnet’s Ermelo Yard in South Africa. A new monitoring system from Railhead Digital Video Recorders and Wireless Processing Units has been installed on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express that will generate a single synchronized video file that contains event recorder data. Executive search firm URS Corp. has been selected by the Denton County (Texas) Transportation Authority to provide final design services for a $310million, 21-mile regional passenger rail line connecting downtown Denton and Lewisville, Texas, with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail system in nearby Carrolton. URS was also selected by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to provide construction management services for a $140-million project involving relocating UP freight operations onto adjacent property to clear the way for a future transit investment in the corridor. Vossloh Group has signed a sale and purchase agreement regarding the sale of the business unit Vossloh Infrastructure Services to Eurovia S.A., a company of the VINCI-Group. SullivanKreiss has www.rtands.com Railway Track & Structures August 2008 7 http://www.autodesk.com http://www.bentley.com http://www.jacobs.com http://www.jacobs.com http://www.bentley.com http://www.jacobs.com http://www.switch.com http://www.camsys.com http://www.pbworld.com http://www.pbworld.com http://www.unitracrail.com http://www.pbworld.com http://www.herzogcompanies.com http://www.dmjmharris.com http://www.urscorp.com http://www.ecostar.carlisle.com http://www.railcomm.com http://www.ge.com http://www.nmrailrunner.com http://www.hatchmott.com http://www.nmrailrunner.com http://www.nmrailrunner.com http://www.cityarch.com http://www.nmrailrunner.com http://www.vossloh.com http://www.sullivankreiss.com http://www.rtands.com

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