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WESTMINSTER, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 7, 2024 / BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQX:BLGO), a company that creates and commercializes sustainable technologies to solve tough environmental and cleantech challenges, announced that its engineering subsidiary has been awarded a contract to provide air quality services to three New Mexico U.S. Air Force (USAF) bases for up to five years, with a potential annual average revenue of $650,000.

The new contract is in addition to ongoing environmental support work at six Air Force bases and is the company's largest dollar-value Air Force contract to date. These contracts provide regularly monthly flat fee revenue to the company over the life of the contract, which the Air Force may renew each year. BioLargo's work at the New Mexico bases includes air quality regulatory compliance. Bhate Environmental Associates is the prime contractor with the Air Force under the Fence-to-Fence (F2F) support contract.

BioLargo Engineering, Science & Technologies President Randall Moore commented, "Our team has served Air Force bases with fence-to-fence air quality compliance services for years, but this is the largest such contract we've secured to-date. Larger, long-term contracts such as this one are crucial to our strategy of securing steady, reliable income from external clients. This empowers us to focus on commercializing BioLargo's innovative cleantech technologies, including advancements in water treatment, energy storage, and air quality solutions."

About BioLargo, Inc.

BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB:BLGO) is a cleantech and life sciences innovator and engineering services solution provider. Our core products address PFAS contamination, achieve advanced water and wastewater treatment, control odor and VOCs, improve air quality, enable energy-efficiency and safe on-site energy storage, and control infections and infectious disease. Our approach is to invent or acquire novel technologies, develop them into product offerings, and extend their commercial reach through licensing and channel partnerships to maximize their impact. See our website at http://www.BioLargo.com.

About Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc.

Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc. (Bhate) provides a diverse range of technical services in the environmental and infrastructure markets to the federal government and private industry. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Bhate's reach is both national and global. At Bhate, we value high standards of safety, professionalism, ethics, and service to our clients. We foster a collaborative environment that encourages innovative ideas while providing challenges and rewards for our dedicated staff. Through our team's Responsiveness, Integrity, and Teamwork, Bhate delivers professional, quality, cost-effective, and on-time results to our clients. See their website at http://www.Bhate.com.

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Dennis P. Calvert President and CEO, BioLargo, Inc. 888-400-2863

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On May 29, Engineering Technology seniors presented their Senior Design projects. Over the course of their senior year, students worked in teams to engineer a solution to a specific problem. Projects covered multiple industries, including manufacturing, health, education and combating carbon emissions.

The Engineering Technology program began with presenting Haas-sponsored scholarships to five students, selected based on essays submitted about their interest in pursuing a career in manufacturing.

Seniors then stood next to their projects and poster boards. Attendees and faculty walked around to learn about each project and hear how they designed their solution. Seniors then gave presentations detailing their design process and answered questions.

Senior design mimics a product development process and incorporates experiential aspects of our program, which is more applied and hands on, shared Dr. Ertekin, the associate director of engineering technology. Students at the end produce a working prototype while applying theoretical knowledge and learn from their mistakes what not to do in actual industrial settings. They also develop soft skills like project management, communication and teamwork skills.

One group partnered with IFM Electronic to build a machine-vision system to minimize errors in assembly processes. IFM is a global company that specializes in manufacturing and sensors, aiming to improve efficiency and reliability. Through the partnership, IFM sponsored the student project, covering the $30,000 cost.

Their project incorporates two 3D-sensing cameras along with RFID detection for managing the assembly process. Attendees tried out the system and were intuitively able to follow the instructions on screen to assemble a pen. The cameras and RFID detection work together to ensure the operator follows the correct assembly steps to complete the assembly process without mistakes.

I feel accomplished to a degree because I was working with professionals and I got first hand experience Yahya Abdulrasool, one of the team members, shared. Communication is key, especially when working with people youve never worked with before. In total he estimates that it took two and a half months of work on the prototype after nine months of research.

Another group shared that they didnt know what they should do for their project at first. We asked people in other industries what issues they had that we could solve. Since many of my friends are nurses, we looked towards the health industry, shared Pitchapa Inroon. They found that many hospitals are short staffed, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and some tasks are suffering because of it. According to their executive summary, their project is designed to address a labor-intensive aspect of frequent repositioning of bed-bound patients to prevent complications like bed sores our project focuses on developing a bed system utilizing individually inflatable air cells with pressure-sensing capabilities.

Currently, repositioning requires two nurses to use a trendelenburg bed to tilt the bed downward, then slide the patient down. The team shared that this process is both time consuming and dangerous as patients may hit their head on the headboard. Their design automates the patient repositioning process and allows for pressure management.

Another senior project focused on making robotic education more accessible to schools. Modern manufacturing and iteration tools are large and expensive, so they can be cost prohibitive for schools, shared Aaron Kane. We wanted to build an open source project that can teach the same manufacturing and coding concepts at an affordable price.

Kane and his team built an Educational Automated Manufacturing Workcell for students to experiment with robotics programming, and use the hands-on work cell to learn key concepts. Im glad to have been part of a team taking the initiative to help make automation training more accessible to Engineering Students around the world, said Kane.

The students start with a dream, and we [advisors and I] help them scope the dream to become reality without clipping their wings. They dream big and they should do so every day, shared Dr. Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, associate clinical professor, engineering technology program director and senior design coordinator. It is not an easy task, I wouldnt trade it for another course. I cant wait to see whats in store for next year.

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Officials in Gooding said this week that an employee sent a payment of $1,092,519 meant for contractors working on a wastewater project, but it went to scammers instead.

According to a city press release, the scammers impersonated representatives ofa contractor hired by city officials, using a tactic called social engineering to gain the employee's trust.

In the Idaho case, after the scammers gained the trust of the employee, they told the employee the bank information needed updating before sending payment.

"In this case, the request to change payment information was done with legitimate appearing documentation," city officials said. "The conspirators then waited for the city to transfer the vendor payment. After the funds were unknowingly deposited in the scammers' account, they were diverted to a different account."

The city's bank says it hasn't recovered the funds yet.

It's notoriously difficult for banks and law enforcement to recover money lost to scammers. Police in Florida said they were only able to recover about $40,000 after an older woman lost over $400,000 in a fake sweepstakes scam in April.

"You go obtain subpoenas and then the bank takes their time about getting data back, the money is gone, long gone," the local sheriff said during a press conference at the time.

If you lose money to a scammer, the Federal Trade Commission recommends asking whatever payment service credit card, bank, or transaction app you sent the money through to help recover the funds.

The Gooding Sheriff's Office and the FBI are investigating the incident, the city said.

The FBI Salt Lake City office which oversees investigations in Idaho did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider.

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In a significant leap forward in the fight against antibiotic resistance, an international research team has harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover almost a million new potential antibiotic sources in the natural world.

Led by Associate Professor Luis Pedro Coelho, a computational biologist from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the research team utilized machine learning to analyze over 60,000 metagenomesvast collections of genetic material from diverse environments, including soil, oceans, and the human gut.

We used datasets that were publicly available. They had generally been collected for other purposes, Professor Coelho told Interesting Engineering when asked about the collection and utilization of metagenomic data from diverse environments.

The innovative AI-powered approach allowed the team to identify a staggering 863,498 promising antimicrobial peptides, small molecules with the potential to kill or inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria.

To validate their findings, the researchers tested 100 laboratory-made peptides against clinically significant pathogens.

We tested some peptides that were particularly promising, but, importantly, we also tested some peptides chosen completely at random from our dataset (to provide an unbiased estimate of how good our dataset is), Professor Coelho told IE.

The test results revealed that 79 peptides could disrupt bacterial membranes and 63 specifically targeted antibiotic-resistant bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.

These results are particularly encouraging, as they suggest that these peptides could be effective against some of the most dangerous and difficult-to-treat infections.

Further preclinical trials in mice showed that two of the peptides were remarkably potent, reducing bacteria by up to four orders of magnitude.

The effects were comparable to those of polymyxin B, a commonly used antibiotic, demonstrating the potential of these newly discovered peptides for therapeutic applications.

What we are measuring is the decrease in bacterial load after topical application of the candidate peptides and comparing to a positive control (which is a clinically-used antibiotic), stated Professor Coelho.

He highlighted the peptides potential for a much more targeted spectrum of activity.

For conventional antibiotics, even narrow spectrum antibiotics still target a large number of organisms, while peptides potentially be much more specific, Coelho stated.

He also explained how these peptides are much better than traditional antibiotics.

The fact that antibiotics disrupt the normal gut microbiome should be seen as a negative side effect of taking them. Thus, potentially reducing this side effect could be a large benefit, asserted Professor Coelho while explaining the benefits of the peptides.

To facilitate further research and development, the team has created the AMPSphere, a publicly accessible database containing all the identified peptides.

This valuable resource is expected to accelerate the discovery of new antibiotics and contribute to the ongoing battle against antimicrobial resistance.

At the moment, we are continuing to explore the basic scientific aspects. What wed really like to be able to do better is predict and potentially tune the specificity of the peptides, Coelho concluded.

We are also trying to develop approaches to be able to screen candidates faster.

By harnessing the power of AI to explore the vast genetic diversity of the natural world, researchers have opened up a wealth of possibilities for developing life-saving drugs.

The findings of the study come with a renewed focus on combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as humanity deals with the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs.

AMR is a global health crisis, with the World Health Organization warning that it could lead to 10 million deaths annually by 2050 if left unchecked.

The development of new antibiotics is crucial to combat this threat, as many existing drugs are becoming increasingly ineffective against resistant bacteria.

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The request for qualifications from architectural and engineering designs firms opened May 20 and will close June 14.

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The project team behind the first component of the nearly $3 billion rebuild of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is seeking design and engineering services.

The request for qualifications from architectural and engineering designs firms opened May 20 and will close June 14. The first component of the convention center redevelopment involves expanding the convention space and integrating technology for enhanced event hosting. Dallas City Council in September awarded the project management services contract for the component to Inspire Dallas LLC, an entity tied to real estate development firm Matthews Southwest.

The overall expansion of the center will nearly triple its meeting room space, double the ballroom space and expand exhibition halls by 76,000 square feet.

The project manager has already held sessions with more than 160 participants and has about six declared leads, Inspire Dallas CEO Carlos Aguilar said May 30 at a Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce morning event. The firm is also starting a pre-construction phase to finalize the scope and budget of the rebuild and then do a construction management at risk process that will "come to the streets" in the next two to three weeks, he said.

"Again, there are some self-identified leads already. Those are more architecture, engineering geotechnical, structural disciplines," Aguilar said. "Then we go to pre-construction evolving into construction management at risk, that's a big contract of course. Then from that comes construction and all the subcontracts that come associated with that. That is where you'll see a lot of opportunity. The scopes will be everything from project management to traffic management to construction to almost any discipline."

In February, Council awarded two Black women-led firms contracts worth about $17 million combined for two other components of the convention center reconstruction.

Washington-headquartered architecture, engineering and construction management firm McKissack & McKissack received a roughly three-year contract worth about $8 million to manage the renovations of the Dallas Memorial Arena. Upgrades to the nearly 10,000-seat arena will include modernizing seating, acoustics and lighting and improving accessibility of the facility. The WNBA's Dallas Wings are slated to move into the arena in 2026.

Dallas-headquartered engineering and consulting firm Dikita Enterprises Inc. was awarded a four-year, $9.2 million contract to lead the reconstruction and upgrades of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The renovations of the site will also feature facility modernizations, increasing accessibility and expanding space for cultural exhibitions and educational programs. Work could be completed in 2027.

The rebuild of the Hutchison Convention Center will have seven components total and aims to elevate Dallas as a top destination for conventions, said Reginald Williams, assistant director of convention and event services for the City of Dallas. Ahead of its scheduled 2028 completion,41 conventions have already signed lease agreements to host events at the facility starting in in 2029 and could create an estimated $658 million in direct spending and $1 billion in economic impact.

Williams said the facilitys current amount of ballroom space causes it to lose events to competitors such as Las Vegas, Chicago, Nashville and Orlando. The redevelopment should change that, city leaders hope.

"We're not just looking to create a building. The goal is to activate and connect downtown with southern neighborhoods," Williams said. "Our master plan consultants estimates that the economic benefits are large [including] over $6 billion in direct development spending, over 50,000 jobs, 30,000 of which that are going to be recurring full-time, and billions of new taxes over a 30-year period for the city."

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