The main factors accounting for the success of the construction company New Energy are their individual and professional approach to each particular project; high quality of the works fulfilled; and their high professionalism and use of newest technologies: and high quality of the operations.
Established in 2004, L.T.D New Energy successfully operates in the construction market [...]
Atkins has celebrated a world first, with the installation of the turbine blades onto Manama’s Bahrain World Trade Center towers. The installation of the 29 metre diameter turbine blades represents a culmination of over three years of intensive research and development by Atkins architects and engineers in association with Danish partners Ramboll and Norwin. The [...]
Owners of One Indiana Square today unveiled a rendering for the new façade planned for their 36-floor downtown office building. The new exterior will repair the damages suffered during an April 2, 2006, storm and update the 38-year-old tower with a contemporary design.
“What you see in the rendering is a modern façade to a building [...]
The new BCA Part J “greenhouse regulations” will send everyone in the building and construction industry back to school to relearn the basics, according to Mark Tatum, Technical Manager with Kingspan Insulated Panels.
Part J summary
NEW BUILDING REGULATIONS NOW IN FORCE
* BCA PART J: Mandatory Energy Efficiency Measures for Non-Residential Construction.
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Poyry’s Energy business group has been awarded an owner’s engineering services contract for the first stage of the 3 x 300 MW Puttalam coal power project in Sri Lanka. The client is the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), who has entered into an EPC contract with China National Machinery & Equipment Import and Export Corporation. The [...]
Italy’s largest power company Enel and Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona have signed an agreement with Germany’s E.On, one of the world’s largest energy service providers, with regard to the future of Spanish energy group Endesa. E.On will acquire Enel Viesgo and certain other Endesa assets: in Italy, France, Poland and Turkey and thermal power plants [...]
CECO Filters introduced long-life, centralized CECO Mist Collector Systems. Providing up to 10 years of filter life with 99.5% and higher efficiencies at capturing mist emissions, the CMC ‘boxed solution’ collectors allow effluent from multiple operations, even plant-wide, to be treated at one location. In turn, captured liquids and particulates can be efficiently and economically [...]
Scott Brothers announces new range of high performance evaporative bioclimatic air-conditioning units. The new Bioclimatic Convair appliances operate with windows and doors open, providing dependable cooling in a safe, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way.
During hot weather, most people prefer to leave the windows and doors of their living rooms, bedrooms, conservatories, offices and shops open. [...]
British architect Lord Richard Rogers, acclaimed for his urban, socially minded and open designs including the airy Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Wednesday.
Rogers, 73, is the fourth British architect to receive the field’s top honor, founded in 1979 and sponsored by the family [...]
Round Rock has become known for it’s technological advances, but it is also about to be a leader in “green†sensitivity as well. In May, Designated Tree Partners led by Don Dungan and Kang Lee will begin building an environmentally friendly office space, in an effort to become the city’s first complex to [...]
The London-based firm Amec said year-end results were in line with expectations despite pre-tax losses increasing due to construction losses. Pre-tax profit before exceptional items fell to £64.7m (2005 £73.9m). Revenue for the period increased 14% to £3.2bn. Dividends were raised 6% to 12.2p. The group said it hopes to deliver operating margin target of [...]
Green building as a cause has united disparate parties from environmental groups to big business to policymakers, but one key industry has struggled to react to the change in public sentiment.
The major home builders, who account for 80 percent of all home-building activity in the nation, face a unique challenge in implementing green building on [...]