Pasadena engineering and data analysis consulting company Tetra Tech Inc. has won a slice of an $800 million federal architectural and engineering services contract. The contract from the Agency for International Development began in July. It has a base period of five years with an option to continue for another two years. Tetra Tech was one of 13 companies selected by USAID to be on call for work under the agency’s third Global Architect-Engineer Services contract. The work ceiling for...
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From Pasadena to India: Local Company Aims to Disrupt $16 Billion Auto-Rickshaw Market With Cost-Saving Swappable Battery
A Northwest Pasadena energy supplier company situated thousands of miles away from the busy crowded streets of India is promising to bring a host of economic and social benefits to the Asian country. With its new swappable battery designed for use by auto-rickshaws, Pasadena-based Power Global vows to bring clean and affordable battery technology to India’s massive three-wheeler market valued at $16 billion. The company this week introduced its first mass market product, the eZee ™ swappable battery, which powers two to three-wheeled vehicles including auto-rickshaws. ...
25 Most Popular Large Cities to Relocate
Major urban hubs like San Francisco, Chicago, and Philadelphia are dominate when it comes to the volume of people moving in and out on a regular basis. But, large, “2nd tier” cities are starting to make a comeback in popularity, especially among millennials. But exactly which large cities are people moving to? To measure the most popular large cities in the US, we looked at data from our move cost calculator and best interstate moving companies list to determine which large cities were most searched as destinations for...
Pasadena Office Complex Sells for $72.5 Million
Lincoln Property Co.’s West Coast arm, LPC West, and New York-based alternative asset firm Angelo Gordon have purchased an office campus in Pasadena for $72.5 million. Read more...
15 Best Things To Do in Pasadena
Pasadena is a city of more than 140,000 residents located about ten miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It may be most well-known for its annual Tournament of Roses parade and the Rose Bowl football game that features high-profile Midwest and West Coast teams, but it’s also a center for technology, industry, and the arts. Pasadena is chock-full of significant historical and cultural attractions. It’s close to a number of undisturbed natural areas that offer visitors easy access to a...
Cal Tech Confirms Successful Touchdown of NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles. Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA, at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST). Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020. The Perseverance rover mission marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth....
Deep 6 AI of Pasadena Announces Release of Trial
Deep 6 AI today announced the addition of Trial Recommender to its industry-leading artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical trial acceleration platform. Addressing a major gap in traditional patient recruitment, Trial Recommender lets physicians and their patients easily discover and participate in clinical research. Leveraging the Deep 6 AI and NLP platform, Trial Recommender offers precision-matched clinical trial opportunities for patients, during their visit with a treating physician, based on real-time structured and unstructured clinical data. Starting inside their EMR or the Trial...
The Opening of Pasadena’s Only International Boarding School is Pushed Back
The anticipated opening of a 975-student international boarding school in Pasadena has been delayed until September of 2022, after previously being pushed back to 2021 in July, representatives announced Friday. EF Academy had originally planned to open a new campus on the former site of the William Carey International University at 1539 E. Howard Street this year. But the project remained in construction when the pandemic struck in force. The school, which is being built by Swiss company Education First,...
Caltech Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Testifies on Innovation to U.S. House Committee
Frances Arnold, Caltech’s Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on April 15 about the need for the nation to invest more in science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Arnold, recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, gave her testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology as part of its “Reimagining Our Innovation Future” hearings. She was joined by...
Pasadena Bio Science Collaborative Nurtures Local Bioscience Startups
Incubators have long been viewed as crucial to jump-start the development of tech, life science and other companies. But until 2004, Los Angeles County had only one bioscience incubator with lab space, a small facility in Chatsworth that recently went defunct. Universities had lab facilities, but those were mostly reserved for students and faculty researchers. Outside companies were generally not invited. Then in 2004, the Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative, now known as the Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator, opened its doors, backed...