Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Will your city be the next European Green Capital? Today the search to find the city that will inherit the prestigious title in 2014 begins. Four cities – Stockholm, Hamburg, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Nantes – have been awarded the title so far, from 2010 to 2013 respectively. The European Green Capital Award recognizes and rewards cities
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
ABB is responsible for the design, engineering, erection, civil works and commissioning of the plants, as well as for connection to the local power grid and will deliver the turnkey electrical and control solution within an extremely short time span of thirteen weeks. Key products to be supplied include trackers, inverters, low-voltage equipment, medium-voltage switchgear,
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia HE Mrs Ewa Polano will tomorrow, Tuesday 14 June 2011, sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Construction Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works to share experiences and cooperate with Indonesia regarding environmentally sustainable planning and construction. This a field in which Sweden has a long and very
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Thales Alenia Space España has been awarded important contracts summing up to a value of more than 7.5 million Euros. These contracts are for the MUSIS program for Earth observation. The company will be entrusted with the design, development, manufacturing, qualification, supply of electronics for the focal plane of the optical instrument (FPPB), and the
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
U.S. wildfires is a sharable web map that can be used to help report on the 2011 wildfire season. The map shows current data for wildfire locations and related information including photos and videos from social media. Use the map’s Share button to size the map for embedding on web sites. Read More
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Damage to marine and coastal ecosystems could be reversed through more involvement between coastal communities and stakeholders, says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A new guide, published today for World Oceans Day 2011 (8 June), stresses the importance of groups working together where they have a stake in the coastline to mitigate the harm caused
Monday, June 13th, 2011
The development of the new think3 proceeding rapidly. In just the first weeks after starting the R&D team has been hard at work and the Official Thinkdesign 2011 Beta version is entering into the build phase ready for its imminent release. Some new functionalities available in this release covered:– Assembly: New Mating management, Gear Constraint,
Monday, June 13th, 2011
The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) today announced the much anticipated release of IntelliCAD 7. IntelliCAD 7 represents the culmination of a fundamental overhaul of the entire IntelliCAD code base undertaken by the ITC and its member companies. It incorporates a complete, new architecture based on and synchronized with the development platform from the Open Design Alliance,
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Maxwell Systems, Inc. announced version 9.2 of Maxwell Systems Estimation, the company’s advanced takeoff and estimating software designed specifically to address the needs of electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and HVAC contractors. Estimation 9.2 offers numerous new features and enhancements to help contractors work with greater speed and accuracy.
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
Esri UK is pleased to announce that its market-leading GIS technology is supporting English Heritage to help visualise all entries on its recently launched ‘The National Heritage List for England’. The National Heritage List for England is a new online database of the UK’s 400,000 listed buildings, registered parks, gardens and battlefields, protected shipwrecks and
