Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The newly published third edition of the ASHRAE GreenGuide: The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings is an updated version of this easy-to-use reference that covers the need-to-know information on what to do, where to turn, what to suggest and how to interact with other members of the design team in a productive way. The book
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
China launched a new orbiter from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province on Saturday. The newly launched satellite joins six other satellites already in orbit to form a network. The Navigation System is called BeiDou after the Big Dipper constellation. Beidou is designed to provide navigation, time and short message services in the Asia
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
EchoStorm, founded in 2003, provides a suite of secure, net-centric commercial products that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate full-motion video in near real time as well as address the common issues involved with system interoperability and bandwidth.
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
TECTERRA announced today the opening of a new Call For Proposals (CFP) providing an ongoing opportunity of geomatics commercialization funding for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Canada. There will be several application review dates announced throughout the coming year, with the first being January 20, 2011. TECTERRA’s industry funding program enables and supports the development
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network has announced a $3-million pilot project to allow private businesses to access its blazingly fast 100-gigabit optical network. The network, which was first announced in October, has been offered only to Canadian researchers so far. It offers Internet connection speeds thousands of times faster than today’s consumers have access to.
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The city of Genoa, Italy, established the Urban Lab in 2007 to create a sustainable development plan for the Mediterranean port city. Designed by 1998 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Renzo Piano, the lab convenes a monthly roundtable called the Table of Ideas to tap the expertise of top design and urban planning professionals from around
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
PUNCH – The satellite was manufactured by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, a British satellite manufacturing firm, and it is scheduled to be launched into space in Yansy, Russia by Dnper, a Russian company specialising in satellite launch services. Abubakar said before the satellite, known as NigeriaSat-2, was moved to Russia in preparation for its journey into space,
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
ILOVEINDIA.COM – Hydroelectricity simply means electricity generated by water. Gravitational force of falling water is used to generate electricity from it. It is renewable and eco- friendly in nature. The best thing about the procedure is that the amount of water remains the same as before, even after the whole process. In the process, the gravitational
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
REPUBLICA – The government has decided to develop two storage-type hydropower projects in the near future in a bid to cope with the extended power cuts, which have paralyzed every sectors in the country. It has decided to expedite construction works of Upper Seti (127 MW) and Budhi Gandaki (600 MW) that have long been awaiting construction.
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
BBC – State regulators passed a “cap-and-trade” framework to let companies buy and sell permits, giving them an incentive to emit fewer gases. The aim is to create the second-largest market in the field, after Europe’s. Read More
