Friday, February 4th, 2011
Denmark’s flat landscape will soon no longer prevent people from doing some downhill skiing. Thanks to a clever design, a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the Amager district will also serve as a ski slope, reports Politiken newspaper. Read More
Friday, February 4th, 2011
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are discussing the conditions for expanding Europe’s internal electricity market. In an interview, European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger of Germany discusses his vision for Europe and proposes what might be a surprising method for financing the ambitious project. Read More
Friday, February 4th, 2011
A leading multi-disciplinary geo-environmental and engineering consultancy has expanded its use of an innovative environmental reports service on the emapsite geoportal. GRM, which has a nationwide client base of landowners, developers and agents, is increasingly harnessing the power of GroundSure Insight for Phase 1 desktop and ground investigations.
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Geological information is useful for many purposes in the mining industry and environmental monitoring – improvement programs. Technological innovation is now providing 3D and 4D geodata useful for visualisation. GeoVisionary, a visualisation 3D stereographic software produced by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Virtalis company incorporates spatial data for geological mapping projects.
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, Agritechnica, waiting to open its gates this November, is attracting more manufacturers of tractors, agricultural machinery and equipment from Germany and abroad than ever before. This is evident from the stand bookings received to date, which are about ten per cent up on the last event
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The interface of all programs has been redesigned for a better compatibility and integration with the last releases of Windows and also to bring a better user-friendliness. Panels now display refined information with a better accessibility. The entire icons set has been homogenized to offer more coherence.
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
FMX is Europe’s largest conference on the creation, production and distribution of digital entertainment and interactive visualization in design, industry and research. Every year artists, specialists, scientists, producers and other key people come to FMX to present new projects, developments and opportunities in the Conference, at the Trade Floor, in Workshops or Presentations, in the
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
A new, independent non-profit organization tasked with developing and administering a sustainability rating system for North American infrastructure—the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI)—will hold its first board meeting later this week on February 8 and 9. The organization was founded by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the American Public Works Association (APWA) and
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Ministers are expected to adopt a vision, goals and targets for Europe’s forests and address ways to strengthen cooperation on sustainable forest management in Europe. In this context, they will consider opening negotiations on a legally binding agreement on forests and their management in Europe. Read More
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Currently, centers of space monitoring are up and running at more than 30 universities in Russia. Operating as stand-alone entities these centers face the need to tackle similar problems. In particular, the universities have to address to the Russian Federal Space Agency to get licenses for data reception and processing. Read More
