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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Energy Efficiency of Buildings: BGR Urges Support of State Government in Kiel

As there is still no agreement on the tax incentives are the energy performance of buildings, called the Construction Association of Schleswig-Holstein (BGV) support from the state government in Kiel. “Even though the state election is imminent, should not our government put his hands in his lap,” said the association chairman Thorsten Freiberg. “This stalemate means that

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Esri Selects Winners of ArcGIS Online Grant Program for Educators

Esri has awarded five grants to select university and college faculty members to create exemplary higher education course materials and implementations of ArcGIS Online. Grantees receive $10,000 (US) each, as well as assistance from curriculum development specialists on Esri’s education solutions team.

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

7 Reasons Why You Need Lumion 2.1

Lumion is all about creating great movies with zero effort. With Lumion 2.1 you can now visualise indoor scenes. The enhanced GPU render engine can render more detailed materials and rapidly renders scenes containing many lights. Amazing new technology allows users to place and move lights in real-time like magic. Read More

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Cubic Wins New Force Modernization Contract for Lithuania

Cubic Corporation has been awarded a new five-year contract to continue its support of force modernization in Lithuania. This U.S. funded Foreign Military Sales effort is a continuation of Cubic’s constructive simulation and force modernization programs in Lithuania, with a primary task being the development of a modern Combat Training Center.

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Geodeticca – Cadastre of Real Estate

Department of Cadastre of Real Estate creates geometric plans, documents of land boundaries setting-out, land development projects, registers of renewed registration of lands, vectorisation and digitising of maps, documents for property rights settlement of construction works. Read More

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Arcadis Continues Solid Performance in 2011

Net income from operations rose 4%; gross revenues above €2 billion • Net revenues grew 5%, aided by an organic increase of 3% • Growth mainly came from the US environmental market, South America and Asia • Margin remained at a good level, despite weak government market in Europe and US • Dividend proposal €0.47

Monday, February 27th, 2012

National Park Service Records American Engineering History with Autodesk Software

The National Park Service uses AutoCAD software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, to help document American engineering and industrial achievements as part of an historical program started more than 40 years ago.

Monday, February 27th, 2012

GIS and the City 2.0

Clearly cities will play an increasingly important role in our future survival. Cities offer easier access to services, and urban dwellers are more efficient consumers of limited resources. Cities are human destiny. But as our cities become more populated and more numerous, how do we best manage this complexity? Read More

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Ken Kane Nominated for National Forest System Land Management Planning Advisory Committee

U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson has nominated Ken Kane, a native of McKean County, to serve as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced its new forest planning rule in January, which included the formation of the committee to

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Suomi NPP Satellite Started Real-time High Data Rate Transmission

Broadband data transmission from the imaging equipment of the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite successfully started on February 23. Survey results were delivered in real-time on High Rate Data (HRD) radio-link. To get access to data transmitted via HRD radio-link at 15Mbps for free the user only needs to have an X-band receiving