Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Norwegian architect firm Snøhetta and their Canadian project partner Zeidler Partnership Architects have been commissioned to design the new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, Canada. The 8-storey Learning Centre will cost NOK 636 million to build, and will provide study space for around 2000 students, as well as a new library for the university. Read
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
“I remember the excitement that greeted Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space so well: a mixture of astonishment at the achievement, tinged – in some quarters anyway – with apprehension that Soviet science was ahead of America’s. Certainly in Russia it was a moment of glorious triumph. Alexander Urnov was then a bright young student in
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Autodesk , Inc. announced its 2012 portfolio of software for the AEC industry. The updated portfolio supports the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process by offering comprehensive software solutions to help architects, engineers, planners, contractors, facility managers and owners in the building and infrastructure industries meet today’s business challenges. In addition to new and updated software
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Q-Free has today been informed that the Company will be awarded a contract for delivery of the congestion charging infrastructure in Gothenburg. Closing date for submission of complaints is 10 days, and formal contractual signing can take place after this period at the earliest. The contractual value is 143 MNOK and comprises delivery of road side
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Spanish wind technology leader Gamesa has opened its advanced materials research centre in Singapore. The lab is housed at the Nanyang Technological University and will focus on improving the performance of Gamesa’s giant wind turbines. Wind energy is not harnessed in Singapore, but the Economic Development Board said this research lab will put the Republic on the
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The American Public Transportation Association released a new high-speed rail report (pdf) chock-full of numbers and charts. Though advertised as a “business case” for fast trains, the report functions more as a compilation of the latest statistics and study conclusions that underscore the long-term potential of U.S. passenger rail. Some of the supporting figures. Read More
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The administration and care of British Columbia’s publicly owned forestlands – some 60 million hectares, an area larger than France – is unstable and in deep trouble. The shifting of forest governance among three ministries in less than a year, following a decade of deregulation, has eroded forest stewardship and sustainable forest management in B.C. Signs that
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The figure, unveiled at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, is substantially lower than numbers that have been used for nearly a century. The new research uses a global network of monitoring stations that detect the electromagnetic pulses produced by major bolts of lightning. It confirms that thunderstorms are mainly a tropical phenomenon – and the
Friday, April 8th, 2011
As part of the Onshore Energy Security Program, Geoscience Australia has released two new national-scale maps of the potential for magmatic-related uranium mineral systems. The first map, Potential for magmatic uranium systems in Australia Map 1: Intrusive-related, shows the potential for uranium systems associated with intrusive igneous rocks across the continent.
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The Microsoft UltraCam team is pleased to announce that UltraMap 2.2 and UltraMap/AT 2.2 has been released as of April 5, 2011 and will begin rolling-out to the UltraCam customer base April 6, 2011. UltraMap 2.2 features new improvements to the Framework, the Raw Data Center, the Radiometry and the Viewer. UltraMap/AT 2.2 includes significant
