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ACEC News / Advocacy
Convention Lobbying Program to Focus on Infrastructure, Energy and Workforce
ACEC’s “citizen lobbyists” will storm Capitol Hill next week with a lobbying agenda addressing timely and front burner issues affecting the industry.
Infrastructure / Member Firms
Guest Blogger: Transportation Resilience: Taking Steps to Address Threats
WSP National Transportation Market Leader Paula Hammond looks at the efforts by state DOTs and other stakeholders to make U.S. transportation infrastructure more resilient.
ACEC News / Convention
Thanks to All of Our Engineering Excellence Awards Sponsors
The Engineering Excellence Awards Gala on May 7 at the 2019 ACEC Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. will be the best attended ever! ACEC would like to thank the Gala sponsors, without whom this wouldn't have been possible.
ACEC News / Advocacy
Montana Gets to ACEC/PAC Goal with a Team Effort
ACEC/Montana met their 2019 ACEC/PAC fundraising goal this week, achieving that milestone for the eighth consecutive year.
ACEC News / Education
Learn How to Become an Expert Witness, Two-Day Seminar, Atlanta, June 26-27
Gain the knowledge you need to become an effective and sought-after engineering expert witness in ACEC’s Applying Expertise as an Engineering Expert Witness course, a 1-1/2 day seminar in Atlanta, Ga., June 26-27.
Boxwood Merger Corp. (Nasdaq: BWMC, BWMCU and BWMCW) (“Boxwood”), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, and Atlas Intermediate Holdings LLC (“Atlas”) (combined together with Boxwood, the “Company”), a leading provider of professional testing, inspection, engineering and consulting services, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Atlas will become a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Boxwood. Immediately following the proposed transaction, Boxwood intends to change its name to Atlas Technical Consultants, Inc. (“Atlas Technical”) and its shares of Class A common stock are expected to continue to be listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “ATCX.”
The joint venture of Gannett Fleming and Dewberry announced that it was awarded one of four five-year engineering/architecture indefinite delivery, indefinitely quantity (IDIQ) contracts issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Jacksonville District.
WEST was awarded a 5-year Indefinite Delivery Architect-Engineer Contract worth up to $4.5 million from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Los Angeles District for AE Hydrologic and Hydraulic Services for Civil Works Projects.
Indicators
ACEC Engineering Business Index (EBI)
62.6 (2Q, 2019)
62.2 (1Q, 2019)
Engineering Employment
1,521,800 (July)
1,517,500 (June)
Construction Spending
$1,286,997,000 (June)
$1,303,427,000 (May)
ACEC Stock Index
38.16 (August 5)
41.90 (July 29)
Dodge Momentum Index
138.9 (July)
145.6 (June)
Morrissey Goodale M&A Index
297 Deals year-over-year (August)
312 Deals year-over-year (July)
AIA Billings Index
49.1 (June)
50.2 (May)
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