Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Just days after announcing that it has been trialling innovative smart grid technology in one of its stores, supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has confirmed that it has installed dynamic demand management technology in 200 outlets. The retailer had conducted trials of the technology in three stores in the South East and, following a successful pilot period, the
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Such space centers are already operating in 8 Russian regions, including Tatarstan, Kaluga, Yaroslavl, Krasnoyarsk, as well as in the suburban town of Odintsovo outside Moscow. Space Service Centers are used for satellite monitoring of land, natural resources, real estate, providing security of bridges and power plants. In addition, the center accumulates information about the location of
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
NASA’s Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus XL launch vehicle led to the scrub of the original Feb. 23 launch attempt. Those issues have been resolved. Data from the Glory mission will allow scientists to better understand how the sun and tiny
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
While the government announces a new underwater highway it says will relieve traffic on the Bosphorus bridges and in the city center, professional chambers and organizations warn the tunnel highway is likely to increase congestion instead. ‘Highways are made for transporting people, not for cars as we are trying to do in Turkey,’ an expert
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
The number of individual cases of critical air pollution in Russia increased by around 35% in 2010 year-on-year, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Friday. The main cause of the increase was the forest fires that swept the country for two months during a heat wave last summer, the ministry said. Industrial emissions and
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Sustainability has been at the centre of the work of Foster + Partners for over four decades from Willis Faber and Dumas and the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970’s to our Abu Dhabi eco-city, Masdar most recently. Creating a sustainable built environment is crucial if we are to work towards ‘one planet living’. To achieve
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman today announced plans to embed sustainable development at the heart of Government. The Mainstreaming Sustainable Development package sets out the Government’s vision and measures to deliver it. Nick Clegg described the ambition to “take our place among the greenest governments in the world”. Caroline Spelman explained that it’s time to
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Demand for water in agriculture and energy production could spike in the coming decades while catastrophic floods and droughts strike more often, a water conference in Canada is to hear this week. “At unpredictable times, too much water will arrive in some places and too little in others,” said Zafar Adeel, chair of UN Water which
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The GLONASS satellite communications system on Monday started operation on Vladivostok’s municipal transport. The satellite equipment is installed in all 78 Vladivostok municipal buses, trolleybuses and trams, as well as in dozens of buses of commercial carriers. At the next stage passenger boats, ferries and more than two hundred commercial buses will also be equipped
Monday, February 28th, 2011
According to a report in Al-Madinah newspaper recently, they said nearly 70 percent of buildings situated in districts with the presence of groundwater are on the verge of collapse. The warning came at a time when a number of building owners urged the authorities to take urgent measures to protect their residential buildings from the
