Monday, April 25th, 2011
It takes many people to get a new building up and running. They all have specific information they need to know and they all have information to share with other members of the project team. The importance of accurately sharing such information is one of the many reasons why building information modeling (BIM) is having
Monday, April 25th, 2011
This review will incorporate suggestions made by the council at a meeting in January as well as public comments. The council advises TVA on the operation of its dams and reservoirs; including responsibility for navigation, flood control, reservoir water quality, cultural resources and wildlife protection, and management of public lands and recreation. The 20-member council was
Monday, April 25th, 2011
The Delhi government has decided to set up a separate agency to maintain street furniture, new pavements and green stretch developed in the run up to last year’s Commonwealth Games amid complaints about their inefficient upkeep. The agency, to be set up with an initial corpus of Rs 10 crore, will look after the upkeep of
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Two flowlines linking subsea installations on the Tordis field in the North Sea (Illus.) with the Gullfaks C platform are to be replaced by operator Statoil after scheduled inspections found corrosion. Statoil is joining forces with its licence partners to procure the new links, with replacement of the first planned for the second half of this
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Scotland’s first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. After only two years in operation, it is already showing positive signs for both fishermen and conservationists, according to a study by the University of York and the Community of Arran Seabed
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Abu Dhabi has stepped into space as its first satellite, which would provide military, commercial as well as civilian communication, was successfully launched on Saturday. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying Y1A of Yahsat, a unit of Abu Dhabi’s investment arm the Mubadala Development Company, lifted off from the European Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana,
Monday, April 25th, 2011
The coalition has signalled its intention to direct the Green Investment Bank’s fund towards low-carbon technology (Special report: Green policy, 23 April). But the Institution of Engineering and Technology is arguing that the bank should also support energy-efficiency innovations in manufacturing. The bank’s aims are to deliver economic growth, facilitate the transition to a green
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Nokia and Microsoft today announced the signing of a definitive agreement on a partnership that will result in a new global mobile ecosystem, utilizing the very complementary assets of both companies. Completed ahead of schedule, the definitive agreement is consistent with the joint announcement made on February 11.
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21 and then reads his local comprehensive land-use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land-use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite, one of the world’s foremost remote sensing platforms, inexplicably lost power Friday, likely ending its mission mapping Earth and monitoring natural disasters, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Read More
