Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Hearing at first hand about a young engineer’s life in the marine industry can often be a vital first step in helping a school student take the decision to following in his or her footsteps. James Goodship, who is a 23-year old graduate engineer now working at VT Shipbuilding in Portsmouth Naval Base, set out
Monday, September 17th, 2007
A ten-day-training on Application of GIS for Transportation ended in Dar es Salaam yesterday with a note of congratulations to the Tanzania Transportation Technology Transfer (TanT2) Centre and Tanzania Roads Agency (TANROADS) for organizing it. Participants from Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Tanzania expressed their satisfaction in an interview saying it made them understand the geographic information
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
An EU project has developed technologies to take on the twin challenges of reducing the fuel consumed and CO2 emitted by marine diesel engines. Although shipping is considered the most environmentally friendly form of transportation, the air emissions from ships’ exhausts still worry environmentalists and marine engineers alike. Professor Nikolaos Kyrtatos, the coordinator of a
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
An announcement from The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) describes the publication of the OpenGIS Transducer Markup Language (TML) Implementation Specification as an approved OpenGIS Publicly Available Standard. Sensor systems “have two basic parts: a sensing element and a transducer that converts energy from one form to another form (usually an electric signal) that can be
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogota (EAAB), the water and sewer utility of Colombia’s capital and largest city, has selected SewerGEMS, Bentley’s urban sewer modeling solution, to support the utility’s sewer master plan. The plan’s key goals include extending wastewater and stormwater services coverage to the entire metropolitan
Monday, September 10th, 2007
GERMAN GOVERNMENT – How can the basic interdisciplinary principles for the management of river basin units in Germany be extended, taking into account ecosystem and socio-economic aspects? Read More
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
ICENEWS – On September 11th the President of Iceland will be in Leeds, UK, in order to open Innovate Logistic’s newest office building. A spokesperson from Innovate says that the building received the highest environmental score from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) of any building in the UK. The opening will be attended by both
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
BETWEEN THE POLES BLOG: Worldwide Challenges Facing the Construction Industry There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure. While these new technologies are designed to address challenges in the construction industry, I think that they are going
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The European Commission launched a call for tender for a study on modelling work in the field of agriculture. The Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) has been using the European Simulation Model (ESIM) as a tool for economic analyses. It is a partial equilibrium model which represents the agricultural sectors of
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
MAEIL BUSINESS – Seoul Metropolitan Government is poised to introduce anti-mosquito system to exterminate mosquitoes in the city. An official from Seoul Government said on August 28, We plan to establish the DB system on major mosquito habitats that can be expressed upon the geographical information system (GIS) in order to remove mosquitoes from the city.
