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Black & Veatch receives full notice to proceed on conversion of Golar FLNG Vessel for BP field development work

Publish date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Black & Veatch, a global leader in floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) topside solutions, has received a full notice to proceed on work to jointly outfit a Golar LNG owned LNG carrier, Gimi, with Black & Veatch’s patented PRICO® liquefaction technology.

The full notice to proceed (FNTP), following a limited notice in December 2018, enables Black & Veatch to team with Keppel Shipyard Limited to convert the Gimi into an FLNG vessel supporting the development of Phase 1 of BP’s Greater Tortue / Ahmeyim field, located offshore Mauritania and Senegal.

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Black & Veatch consortium advances Prayagraj wastewater programme to design-and-build phase

Publish date: Monday, April 15, 2019   |   Location Mumbai, India

Namami Gange is the Indian government’s ambitious programme to restore water quality in the Ganga and its tributaries. Completion, by a Black & Veatch consortium, of a project at Prayagraj – also known as Allahabad - has brought enhanced water quality at one of the most venerated sites a step closer.

“We are honored and happy to be associated with Namami Gange Programme for paving the way for modern integrated wastewater management in Prayagraj,” according to Rajiv Menon, Managing Director, Black & Veatch India.

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Black & Veatch unveils Cleantech Accelerator, powered by LaunchKC

Publish date: Wednesday, April 10, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Engineering and construction company Black & Veatch cemented its place in the Kansas City startup ecosystem Wednesday by introducing its IgniteX Cleantech Accelerator, powered by LaunchKC at a kickoff announcement event at Boulevard Beer Hall.

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Black & Veatch’s leading-edge platform gives managers instant access to workers’ credentials at job sites, proactively enhancing safety

Publish date: Monday, April 8, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

For Black & Veatch safety managers at job sites, keeping tabs on whether employees and contractors had the proper training, certification and licenses for the work required thumbing through inches-thick binders of the crew’s credentials. While helping ensure compliance with safety requirements, little about the logs were quick or efficient, considering that hundreds of people could be on a job site.

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Black & Veatch wins stake of $249M U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract in Europe

Publish date: Thursday, April 4, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Black & Veatch, a global leader in critical infrastructure development and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, announces its winning of a share of a five-year, $248.6 million contract for Architect and Engineering Services to support the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) growing missions in five European countries.

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Black & Veatch CEO’s signature cements commitment to workplace diversity and inclusion

Publish date: Monday, April 1, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Diverse and inclusive workplaces promote better decision making, economic growth and professional development. That’s why Black & Veatch announced today that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Edwards has joined the largest CEO-driven business commitmentto advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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Hong Kong Expands Use of Cavern Service Reservoirs to Free Up Land

Publish date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019   |   Location Hong Kond SAR

The Water Supplies Department (WSD) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is considering to relocate the Diamond Hill Fresh Water and Salt Water Service Reservoirs (DHSRs) to caverns.

WSD has appointed Black & Veatch to investigate, design and supervise the construction of the caverns and the new DHSRs.

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Combination of conventional and clean energy adds to diverse portfolio to meet energy demand in Alabama and northwest Florida

Publish date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Black & Veatch, a global leader in the design and construction of natural gas power generation projects, announced today it has been selected by PowerSouth Energy Cooperative to engineer and manage construction of a combined cycle gas turbine facility that will deliver clean and efficient energy to customers across Alabama and northwest Florida.

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New film set for screenings tour touts surging experiential learning that jump-starts students’ careers

Publish date: Monday, March 18, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Growing numbers of U.S. school districts are adopting an educational model partnering them with community and business interests, giving students real-world experience and a big leap toward their career. And now, that decade-old push to remake education using experiential learning is headed to the big screen.

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New Black & Veatch Water and Wastewater Report Provides Insight into Water Rates in Top 50 U.S. Cities

Publish date: Thursday, March 7, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas Across the U.S., water and wastewater management is gaining greater attention as cities and utilities grapple with rising rates for water and sewer services, the direct result of aging infrastructure, rising operational costs, evolving capital funding mechanisms and regulatory requirements. Read more

New Black & Veatch Leadership Roles to Help Serve Federal and Military Needs, Position Business for Growth

Publish date: Thursday, March 7, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Black & Veatch, a global leader in critical infrastructure development, is working to expand service to federal and military clients by naming four new leadership positions to its federal business. Steve Scott, Mohan Singh, John Somerville and Rod Staponski have each been named Vice President, Federal Programs, and will play specific roles in helping Black & Veatch deliver quality service to new and existing clients.

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Black & Veatch: With their surging populaces more technologically savvy, cities must start planning digitally connected communities

Publish date: Monday, March 4, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Urban centers are growing more congested. Digitalization takes deepening root in the American experience. Connected devices number into the billions, stoking the influence of consumers at the epicenter of this new on-demand, data-driven economy. And now to no one’s surprise, they’re pushing their civic leaders for innovations that enhance service delivery and quality of life.

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Black & Veatch launches new UK Smart Maintenance business

Publish date: Monday, March 4, 2019   |   Location Redhill, Surrey

Black & Veatch has launched a Smart Maintenance business to support utility clients in the UK. The new offering builds upon the company’s technology led asset management consulting experience - and its programme management, logistics and delivery expertise - to create digitally enabled onsite maintenance teams.

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Black & Veatch Wins Innovation Award for Missouri 'Hyperloop' Study

Publish date: Thursday, February 28, 2019   |   Location OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS

As part of a coalition exploring a way to transform travel, Black & Veatch embraced the challenge to assess the viability of something seemingly ripped from a sci-fi novel: Zipping people and cargo at hundreds of miles an hour across Missouri – in pods, through a tube. Black & Veatch spent months on that feasibility study – the first examining a “hyperloop” system in the U.S.

The conclusion: That concept by transportation technology company Virgin Hyperloop One will work.

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Morlais tidal energy project appoints Black & Veatch as design consultant

Publish date: Thursday, February 28, 2019   |   Location Redhill Surrey

The UK’s tidal stream power resource is estimated to be 15 gigawatts (GW), 25 per cent of the country’s typical peak need. Through projects like the Morlais Demonstration Zone Black & Veatch is helping the tidal energy sector realise this potential.

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Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme Receives Water Science and Technology Medal

Publish date: Tuesday, February 26, 2019   |   Location Hong Kong SAR

Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme (HVUSSS) has been awarded the 2018 Dai Yu Science & Technology Medal of the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society (“中國水利學會「大禹水利科學技術獎」”) for outstanding achievement in the areas of innovation and technology development.

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Black & Veatch and EMAGIN team-up to provide UK water companies with the next generation of asset analytics and artificial intelligence

Publish date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019   |   Location Redhill Surrey

Black & Veatch has teamed-up with EMAGIN to support UK water companies with advanced operational intelligence, allied to hands-on asset management and engineering expertise. The partnership will deliver the unparalleled asset performance water companies need to ensure quality and service are undiminished in the face of falling revenues and intense regulatory scrutiny.

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Award recognizes Black & Veatch combination of advanced technology, EPC capability to address Northeast power demand

Publish date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019   |   Location Overland Park, Kansas

Black & Veatch’s work on a high-efficiency power generation station that uses the latest gas turbine and water-cooling technology to deliver clean power to more than 900,000 homes across the northeast U.S. has been awarded the Industrial Project of the Year by the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania.

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Black & Veatch: Renewable Energy, Technology Spur Utility Modernization Push

Publish date: Monday, January 28, 2019   |   Location OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS

Faced with the rapid evolution of generation, transmission and distribution technology, utilities are poised to undergo their most visible transformation in more than a century. By actively pursuing grid modernization efforts now — deploying smart devices, predictive analytics and active network management strategies — they can overcome the pitfalls of aging infrastructure assets and meet rising customer demand for clean energy, reliability and a lowered carbon footprint.

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Hong Kong International Airport’s Trenchless Pipeline Installation Wins International Award

Publish date: Monday, January 28, 2019   |   Location HONG KONG SAR

The International Society for Trenchless Technology has selected the Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Installation at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) to receive the 2018 No-Dig Award in the Project Award category. 

Black & Veatch served as the contractor’s designer for the non-dredged installation.

HKIA selected a project team with international, Mainland China and Hong Kong experience to excel in the science and technology innovation.

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