Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
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 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
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 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
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
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
Phasing down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty is one of the most effective climate protection strategies available to the world today: it could substantially eliminate emissions of one of the fastest growing greenhouse gases globally. Low-climate-impact substitutes for HFCs are already available and could be quickly adopted.
Monday, February 27th, 2012
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
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
A catapult, a 3-D virtual reality system for use in training doctors, and a microscope that can magnify an almost invisible object to 200,000 times its size, were among the equipment on public display this afternoon inside the UAB School of Engineering. Equipment was displayed in a carnival like atmosphere, with balloons, popcorn, and games, in rooms
