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Bridge and Aircraft Maintenance Revolution to Come From Polymer Nanocomposite

A newly discovered nanocomposite could vastly simplify and enhance the maintenance of large-scale infrastructure such as bridges and aircraft. QUT School of Engineering Systems senior lecturer Dr Cheng Yan said a small piece of the polymer nanocomposite with carbon nanotube fillers could be placed on various surfaces to assist as an early warning system

21 May 2009

Bridges of The Future Being Designed by COMBRI Project

The TECNALIA Technological Corporation have taken part, through its Construction Unit, in the European research project, "Competitive steel and composite bridges by innovative steel plated structures - COMBRI",...

21 May 2009

Electricity Generating Windows Using The World's Smallest Solar Cells

New Energy Technologies, announced that, it is continuing to further advance the development of its tinted transparent glass SolarWindows capable of generating electricity by coating glass surfaces with the world’s smallest known organic solar cells

21 May 2009

Room Acoustics Improved With With BASF Technology

At the newly built Barceló Raval design hotel in Barcelona, Spain,
sound absorbers made from Basotect® are improving the room acoustics

20 May 2009

Full Color, High-Definition, Touchscreen Programmable Thermostat Introduced by Honeywell

Honeywell today introduced the Prestige, a high-definition, full color, touchscreen, wireless-enabled, programmable thermostat. Designed for homes, the thermostat helps homeowners maximize savings by reducing heating and cooling costs

20 May 2009

Green Building to Test Environmental Legal Professionals

A certain inconvenient truth about the trend toward green building -- that it will neither fade like a bad dream nor match the utopian visions of its most ardent advocates -- is good news for both the state of New Jersey...

19 May 2009

'Natural House' Building Progress Checked on by Prince Charles

Prince Charles paid a visit to the BRE Innovation Park in Watford today to check the progress of the Natural House, an alternative approach to sustainable home building which is being constructed by educational charity the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment

19 May 2009

Smart Grid Plan Outlined By Cisco

Cisco today outlined its plan to deliver an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution that helps utility companies and their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently

19 May 2009

Property Developer Mandates The Use Healthy Paint in All Their Developments

Armstrong Development Properties, a full real estate company and a market leader in the development of commercial retail and office centers in the United States, has just signed a corporate mandate to use Mythic Paint, the high performing zero-volatile organic compounds, zero-toxins and non-carcinogenic paint in all their new construction projects

19 May 2009

Building Contractor, Limbach Energy Solutions, Embraces Energy Efficiency and Expands Into New Markets

A long-time player in the U.S. building industry is shaking up the energy services market. Limbach Facility Services, one of the United States leading specialty contractors, announced today that it is expanding its en...

19 May 2009

World Business Council for Sustainable Development and CEMEX Promote Energy Efficient Buildings

CEMEX in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and a group of leading companies in the building, equipment, and energy industries- announced the release of "Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings”, a new research report of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project

19 May 2009

Carbon Targets Behind UK Government Regulation of Conservatory Buildings

Although the Government has suffered defeat once in 2002 with the same proposed legislation managing directory of Conservatory Quote Online.com - Stephen Giles said: "We expect the Government to be successful in 201...

19 May 2009

SKILSAW Big Dog K-9 Chopper Motorbike Up For Grabs in SKIL Power Tool Competition

SKIL Power Tools wants to know how you've used your worm drive SKILSAW(R) to overcome a challenge either on the jobsite or at home. And for taking the time to send us your story, you could win a new SKILSAW-themed bike, customized by Big Dog Motorcycles

18 May 2009

Concrete Shown to Reabsorb CO2 Reducing Its Carbon Footprint

A new study suggests that concrete reabsorbs atmospheric carbon lowering concrete's overall carbon footprint

18 May 2009

Cleaning The Streets With a Clean, Green Hydrogen Powered Street Cleaner

Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public in Basel

18 May 2009