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Engineers create moveable, multi-ton masonry blocks
Engineers from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led research and design lab have created multi-ton masonry blocks that are moveable by hand.
These NY nukes are headed for decommissioning
The Indian Point sale will be effective after Unit 3 shuts down, and includes the transfer of the licenses, spent fuel, decommissioning liabilities, and Nuclear Decommissioning Trusts.
20 years after Columbine, work continues to engineer safer schools
Twenty years after the Columbine High School shootings, standards are being written to help engineers design safer schools and better enable affected communities to recover and heal. "There’s now enough fire in the belly to get it done,” one official said.
E.On expands its wind energy portfolio with new projects
The wind farm consists of 60 six MW wind turbines from Siemens and ranks as one of the largest wind power plants in the Baltic.
Fire safety standards come to the fore after Notre-Dame burns
Fire safety and suppression are the topics of multiple engineering standards, many of which are available at Engineering360.
Engineers downplayed cracks hours before bridge collapse
In court documents, engineers allegedly assured colleagues it was safe to keep the road below open and that temporary shoring to hold up the span was not necessary as repairs proceeded.
Cape Town to produce, build with plastic-enhanced bricks
A new kind of plastic-enhanced brick is expected to improve plastic waste issues in Cape Town, South Africa.
Contract awarded for munitions plant project
Under the EPC contract, Burns & McDonnell will build a steam boiler facility capable of delivering 1 million pounds per hour of process steam.
Hidden benefits of Krieger’s acoustical doors
Krieger’s acoustical and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)-compliant door assemblies not only satisfy acoustical performance requirements, but they also offer hidden benefits, including airflow containment, bullet resistance in addition to smoke and fire suppression.
Highly reliable heat pumps keep you cool all summer long
Lennox International expanded its line of single stage heat pumps with two new models that incorporate their proprietary Quantum Coil technology.
City awards contract for $1 billion water project
The 12-year project was stipulated in a 2014 Consent Decree with the Environmental Protection Agency.
RFID pressure sensors for Industry 4.0
Bestech’s RFID pressure sensors provide a wireless long-term pressure monitoring solution in a connected environment and are available in pressure ranges from 3 to 1,000 bar.
Transparent polymer is as strong as aluminum
A lightweight, transparent plastic material with the mechanical strength of aluminum could be an ideal replacement for traditional and polymeric glass in many applications.
How to select your insulation facing
Facing is often used to limit vapor drive with the ultimate goal of preventing condensation.
Bridges may be vulnerable to this common road de-icer
The damage also is unlikely to be detected using standard visual inspections, the typical method of assessing bridge health.
Outdoor air handler with a virtually leak proof roof system
A new semi-custom outdoor air handler is complemented by a patent-pending triple-layer roof system to virtually eliminate the possibility for leakage.
Video: Transparent wood designed for thermal energy storage in buildings
The transparent, heat-storing wood can bear heavy loads and is easily biodegraded at the end of its service life.
This utility is speeding up its carbon reduction timeline
The revised goal moves up by a full decade the carbon reduction commitment the utility made two years ago.
The first pole-mounted, multi-access edge AI and machine learning solution
The new solution is a compact, low-profile, pole or wall-mountable unit based on an integration of Adlink’s latest AI Edge Server MECS-7210 and Charles’ SC102 Micro Edge Enclosure.
This utility is adding 247 MW of wind energy capacity
The generating capacity will help the utility more than double its use of renewable energy by 2021.