Humidity, environmental pollution, cleaning with aggressive products for the chemical composition of the rock, etc give rise to the appearance of salts which…
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is a world-leading centre of excellence in developing and applying the most accurate measurement standards, science and…
The MenTouGou District of Beijing and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have made an agreement about VTT drawing up a preliminary study on planning and…
Key aims are to: • promote leading-edge areas of research in real estate investment, urban development and design with direct benefits for professional…
In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges.Yan Xiao, a professor at the…
In the last years, the tunnel fires have shown that the tunnel support structure is severely damaged at an extremely high fire impact. “In some tunnels, up to…
From an energy efficiency perspective, roof technology has not progressed substantially in hundreds of years, but that is changing with the use of active…
Currently in the UK around two-thirds of planning applications for wind farms are rejected. Concerns over the impact wind farms will have on local residents…
The so-called “Crowd Farm,” as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, would turn the mechanical energy of people walking or jumping into a source of…
Civil engineer Rima Taher, PhD, special lecturer in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT, spent two years examining the findings of research centers…
The lecture was given by Christopher Nash, Managing Director of Grimshaw, who spoke on the theme of ‘Perspectives on Architecture: Global Responses’.Christopher Nash is currently Director in charge of Stansted Airport Generation 2 Masterplan, Bournemouth Winter Gardens, and perhaps most interestingly the Cutty Sark conservation project. He has also been involved in the design and construction of many of the buildings on the University of Surrey campus. In addition to his active involvement in projects, he is also responsible for the strategic planning of Grimshaw business worldwide….
The yearning to feel your gut drop-the roller coaster as a machine, an economic system, and an experienceIn 2007 there are more than 2,000 roller coasters in…
Engineers at MIT have developed a new technique for detecting damage in concrete bridges and piers that could increase the safety of aging infrastructure by…
The researchers recently developed and successfully tested the first seismic design methodology for bridge towers that respond to ground motions by literally…
Network PROHITECH will be due in Liege, April 26 and 27, its penultimate meeting, gathering the representatives of the 16 universities partners, coming from 12…
The project will develop special walls with 'self-healing' properties made of nano polymer particles which turn into a liquid when squeezed under pressure. The…
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