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New Technology for Water Desalination Plants

A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh wate...

23 Jul 2008

Luxury Hotel Opts for Refinishing Rather Than Replacing Furniture

The Rittenhouse, a AAA Five Diamond luxury hotel on Rittenhouse Square in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, has selected The Refinishing Touch, a world leader in providing environmentally-safe, onsite furniture refinis...

22 Jul 2008

ThyssenKrupp Develops Revolutionary Prop System for Shoring Excavation Pit and Foundation Piles

For the large Postareal Salzburg construction site ThyssenKrupp Xervon Austria’s stationary shoring experts came up with a solution comprising not vertical but horizontal shoring involving a hydraulically adjustabl...

22 Jul 2008

Rio Tinto Seeks Partner for London Development

Rio Tinto is seeking a joint venture partner to redevelop its former HQ building in St James's Square, London, and has decided to retain the development as an investment when completed. Leading development companies ...

22 Jul 2008

Dow Sealants Helping to Shape Ever More Elaborate Buildings

Silicone sealants from Dow helping to build elaborate buildings as they perform well under the stress of UV radiation, extreme heat and cold, and acid rain, as well as natural disasters or even security threats

22 Jul 2008

LEED Building to be New Headquarters for BMW Canada

BMW Group Canada to relocate its corporate headquarters to a custom built green facility built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, a Green Building Rating System, which is designed to conserve natural resources

22 Jul 2008

Design Concepts Turn Aluminium Cans Into Building Materials and Solar Powered Street Lights Mimic Trees

Reuters Technology week review with Fred Katayama this week examines a range of topics that include some environmentally friendly designs and concepts from an exhibition in Israel. The green design concepts include a ...

21 Jul 2008

ThyssenKrupp Elevator Lands Order for 669 Elevators and Escalators in China

ThyssenKrupp Elevator has received an order to supply a total of 337 escalators and 115 elevators for the extension of the metro network in the city of Shenzhen (population twelve million). The work is scheduled for comp...

21 Jul 2008

Saflex Supplying Expertise to Building the World's Largest Thin Film Solar Modules

Saflex is providing PVB interlayer and technical expertise in encapsulation technology to several companies that are producing the world's largest thin-film solar modules

21 Jul 2008

Low Cost, Bright LED Lighting Breakthrough

Timothy D. Sands, at left, director of Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park, and graduate student Mark Oliver, operate a "reactor" in work aimed at perfecting solid-state lighting

18 Jul 2008

Olympic Village Lights to be Controlled by Echelon Energy Efficiency Lighting Control Panel

Echelon Corporation today announced that the Olympic Village in Beijing is using Echelon's LonWorksR technology to create an energy efficiency lighting control system. Lighting typically consumes as much as a third o...

17 Jul 2008

New Apartments Find Ideal Building Material in Aircrete and the Celcon Thin Joint System

A three-storey development of fifteen apartments by Charter Homes (South West) Ltd at Derriford, on the outskirts of Plymouth, proved to be an ideal project for the company’s first experience of aircrete and the Thin Joint System

17 Jul 2008

New 1 Metre Mini Beany from Marshalls Comes Out Number One

Marshalls new 1 metre Mini Beany combined kerb and drainage system has just been launched and it’s not hard figuring out what makes the all-new Mini Beany so cost-effective. For a start, the new unit comes in two p...

16 Jul 2008

Hydro Power for Alcoa Aluminium Smelter

Alcoa today announced it has reached agreement with the Chelan PUD on a new, clean-energy hydropower contract to supply its Wenatchee, Washington aluminum smelter through 2028. The new contract, which begins in 2011, wil...

16 Jul 2008

Big Power Upgrade for Australia's Pilbara Region

Rio Tinto has announced an investment of over US$500 million in cleaner, more sustainable power generation to support its expansion of iron ore mining capacity in Western Australia. It will build generation and transm...

16 Jul 2008