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New tool offers broad insight into transportation options and impacts
The MEP metric offers a holistic measure of mobility, better enabling planners to quantify how certain choices positively or negatively affect factors such as traffic flow and air quality, among other things.
Pros and cons of battery and water-powered backup sump pumps
Flooding due to power outage or sump pump failure is preventable with a backup sump pump. What are the pros and cons of battery and water-powered backup pumps?
Lax procedures led to fatal crane collapse at Google work site
Errors included prematurely removing nearly all of the pins and sleeves that helped hold the crane together.
Watch: NTSB cites multiple errors in fatal Florida bridge collapse
Key factors included bridge design errors, inadequate peer review of the bridge design, poor engineering judgment and response to cracking and lack of redundancy in the bridge design.
Researchers build 3D-printed coral homes for fish
Placed in a fish aquarium among four 3D-printed artificial coral replicas and one coral skeleton of calcium carbonate, the damselfish did not indicate a preference for one habitat, nor did they prefer a material.
Denver airport names new contractors for terminal project
Phase I work primarily includes construction of airline ticketing pods in the center of the terminal, and also includes new restrooms and conveyances.
Blankets could protect structures from wildfires, study says
By testing different materials in the laboratory and using them to shield structures exposed to fires of increasing magnitude, the research found that blankets can protect structures from a wildfire attack.
Watch: 3D printing a bigger boat and a da Vinci bridge
A 25 ft, 5,000 pound boat was produced with what is reportedly the largest prototype polymer 3D printer.
Hunter Fan acquires Jan Fan to create 'one-stop shop'
Jan Fan’s high-quality, energy-efficient products will complement Hunter’s existing line of industrial high-volume low-speed and commercial ceiling fans.
Robots will repair faulty welds at this nuclear power plant
The repair pushes back the date of fuel loading at Flamanville Unit 3 to the end 2022 and raises the construction cost estimate by roughly $1.65 billion.
How does a pressure-compensated flow control valve work?
Pressure-compensated flow control valves are designed to provide a constant volume flow rate independent of the pressure drop across the valve.
Insight: The wind blows and the electric grid creaks
It's too early to declare the demise of the interconnected grid, but a case can be made for accelerating investments in small-scale generating units that are close to load centers and that operate within microgrids that can isolate themselves in advance of natural and man-made disasters.
This utility is eyeing more renewable energy and battery storage resources
The proposals were part of the utility's draft “preferred portfolio” for its 2019 Integrated Resource Plan.
2019 Pulse of Engineering Survey: Retirements, resource constraints and millennials rising
IEEE GlobalSpec’s fifth annual Pulse of Engineering survey asked nearly 2,000 respondents, drawn from both Engineering360 and IEEE Spectrum subscribers, to paint a picture of the engineering profession in 2019.
Louisiana plans for a future in which the entire state is a flood risk
The state said that risks will continue to escalate in a warming world, where the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones and severe thunderstorms are anticipated to increase.
Fluor plans business unit sale in bid to generate $1 billion
The company said that the divestitures are intended to improve its financial stability and allow the remaining businesses to refocus on engineering, construction and maintenance services.
Watch: Water innovation hub wins $100 million funding award
The Hub is intended to focus on early-stage research and development for energy-efficient and cost-competitive desalination technologies and for treating nontraditional water sources.
Watch: Nail gun drone installs roofing shingles
The autonomous octocopter is reportedly capable of positioning a nail gun above a targeted nailing point, triggering the gun to insert the nail, and then moving on to the next point — all without human operators.
Team develops 'green' stone composites by repurposing stone waste
Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan have developed a new technique for producing environmentally friendly stone composites by combining polymers and natural stone slurry waste.
Chicago will test alternatives to open trench pipe replacement
The pilots will investigate using pipe lining technologies to rehabilitate water mains and private drains instead of open trench replacement.