FORT SMITH, Arkansas (June 3, 2016)—Baldor Electric Company’s gearbox manufacturing plant located in Belton, South Carolina, recently completed 18 years without a lost-time accident, and the employees have worked one year without any recordable accidents. Recently the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation recognized the facility as a 2016 Palmetto Shining Star recipient for achieving 1 million or more safe work hours without a lost-time injury.

DELFT, The Netherlands (June 3, 2016)—The University of Manchester has received planning permission from Manchester City Council to create a £350 million ($507.7 million) engineering campus designed by Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo. The new engineering campus will be a Manchester landmark, celebrating engineering within the world’s first modern city.

MUNICH, Germany (June 2, 2016)—Team KSB-USA was awarded the gold medal in Munich, Germany, as the overall winner of the third Open German Championship in Wastewater Technology as part of IFAT 2016. The all-star Operations Challenge team competed against 36 teams from six countries as part of the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, which runs from May 30 to June 3.

CALDWELL, Idaho (June 2, 2016)—Xylem has secured a contract worth $1.9 million from the City of Caldwell in Idaho to add an advanced wastewater filtration system to the city’s existing wastewater treatment facility. The inclusion of tertiary filtration technology will enhance the treatment of wastewater effluent being discharged into the Boise River by removing suspended solids and ensuring that the facility can meet stricter regulations.

AUSTIN, Texas (June 1, 2016)—The Texas Water Development Board approved financial assistance totaling $14,815,433 for a new wastewater treatment plant and a reclaimed water system. Of this funding, $2,045,000 was designated for a rural water project.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California (May 31, 2016)—The American Water Works Association’s California-Nevada Section announced the launch of its Water Loss Technical Assistance Program, a $3.2 million program that will run approximately two years to train and assist California’s urban water agencies to produce validated system water audits.

MUNICH, Germany (June 1, 2016)—GE announced that global engineering and construction company M+W group has selected its Jenbacher gas engines and Monsal advanced anaerobic digestion system for Surrey County Council’s new Eco Park waste treatment and biogas-to-energy facility being built by SUEZ Recycling and Recovery U.K. in Shepperton, Surrey, England.