AECOM and ORIS sign MOU to collaborate on carbon impact assessments for road designs

Infrastructure consultancy firm AECOM has announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with digital start-up ORIS to collaborate on carbon impact assessments for road designs. The organisations will pursue joint opportunities for their combined approach, with AECOM using the ORIS software to assess the carbon emissions of road projects to enable its engineers to […]

Roads reimagined with people and planet in mind

By Derval Cummins, Director-Transportation, Aecom & Martin Boran, Associate Director-Highways-Ireland, Aecom The Irish government is investing €1.8 billion in cleaner, greener transport in 2022, part of its drive to halve transport carbon emissions by 2030. But so far, the debate on resource allocation and planning has pitted investment in public transport against investment in roads, […]

AECOM wins Greater Manchester air quality monitoring contract

Consultants AECOM has won an eight-year contract to measure air quality across 450 locations across Greater Manchester. The company will collect pollution samples from each monitoring site every month. They will then analyse this data in order to assess the effectiveness of Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Plan.  Tom Stenhouse, technical director at AECOM, said: “Air quality […]

TRL, AECOM and Pavement Testing Services win Highways England pavement testing contract work

TRL, AECOM and Pavement Testing Services have won contracts with Highways England for pavement testing work across the country. Work includes technical and intrusive pavement surveys, split into in six Lots across country. This will see engineers undertake coring of pavements to determine the pavement structure, layer thickness and condition as well as collate the […]

ITS America CEO leaving for AECOM executive role

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America President & CEO Shailen Bhatt has announced he has accepted a new leadership position with AECOM in its global transport business and will leave his ITS America post in late August. “It is bittersweet to leave ITS America after all the important work we have accomplished – and at […]

AECOM to deliver spatial planning services to Highways England

AECOM has started work on a new contract to deliver spatial planning advice to Highways England in the Midlands and East of England, including advice on development proposals affecting the Strategic Road Network (SRN). The company secured two regions under Highways England’s new three-year National Spatial Planning Contract, with work mobilising during April and May. […]

Bam Nuttall to deliver A27 Arundel bypass works

Bam Nuttall is to deliver the main works package on the A27 Arundel bypass project. The company forms part of the Linkconnex consortium, that also includes AECOM and Mace, which has been working on the design and preliminary stage of the project since the end of 2018. Construction News now reports that the consortium will […]

AECOM wins place on TfGM’s Professional Services framework

AECOM has announced it has won a place on Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM’s) Transport Professional Services (TPS) framework. The four-year framework will be used by TfGM and the ten local authorities in Greater Manchester to deliver transport projects and programmes across the region. Projects delivered through the framework will support Greater Manchester’s Right Mix […]

ITS (UK) honours Student and Apprentice Essay Award winners

The UK’s Intelligent Transport Society has recognised creative thinking amongst its early careers professionals, honouring an apprentice and a student member who have won the 2020 ITS (UK) Essay Competition. The competition wanted candidates to imagine the speech they would give at their retirement ceremony.  They were asked what impact and influence on the industry […]

AECOM launches electric vehicle smart charging management system

Global Infrastructure firm AECOM is launching a new smart system for fleet and infrastructure owners which it says allows them to manage charging in the most energy efficient and low carbon way. It’s signed an MoU with EV technology charging company Zapinamo to deliver a solution which enables owners of EV fleets and owners of […]

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