News Stories Media Kit By Mackrena Ramos In 1985, the City of Houston created the Surface Water Transmission Program in response to a mandate issued by the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District to decrease the use of groundwater and increase surface water usage. The...
News Stories Media Kit By Paul Wood Nationally, energy use at water and wastewater utilities accounts for approximately 35 percent of a U.S. municipality’s energy budget. Electricity use generally accounts for 25-40 percent of the operating budgets for wastewater...
News Stories Media Kit $3 billion plan to meet growing demand, lessen groundwater strain Any Houstonian who’s ever stalled out in a rush-hour gully washer, swatted mosquitoes on a humid summer afternoon or hauled soggy carpet to the curb after a neighborhood...
News Stories Media Kit Wayne Swafford joins planning, engineering and program management firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) as executive vice president. In this role, Swafford will be responsible for the direction and operation of the LAN brand. Swafford...
News Stories Media Kit By Jon Jelinek The Port of Galveston has served as a hub for the cruise industry since the early 1990s and ranks as one of the busiest cruise ports in the U.S. Its facilities handle more than one million cruise passengers each year. When the...
News Stories Media Kit By Paul Takahashi Workforce development has traditionally been the purview of community colleges, which partner with local business leaders to prepare students for various vocations. However, high schools across Texas are increasingly looking to...
News Stories Media Kit By Paul Takahashi Construction projects are notorious for their lengthy delays and cost overruns. However, Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District has managed to avoid these pitfalls, so far delivering its four-year, $267 million...
News Stories Media Kit By Kevin Wilcox The new extension to University Boulevard now under construction in Sugar Land, Texas, is only 0.5 mi long, but there are an extraordinary number of engineering challenges in that half a mile, including a new rail crossing at...
News Stories Media Kit By Paul Takahashi Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District plans to break ground on two new school buildings next month. The nearly 24,000-student school district plans to build an agricultural science center and a technology center...
