Fast-Track Energy Transitions to Win the Race to Zero
World Energy Transitions Outlook outlines global strategies towards carbon-neutrality and leads way to a climate-safe 1.5°C pathway by 2050 Abu Dhabi, UAE, 16 March 2021 – Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, finds the preview of World Energy Transitions Outlook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable power, green hydrogen and modern bioenergy will dominate the world of energy of the future. Previewed at the Berlin Energ...
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Unreal Engine Partnership and Service Pack 3 Release
Major updates include a new real-time rendering connection to Twinmotion and Unreal Engine, a direct connection with Solibri plus a new Vectorworks Cloud Services folder sharing feature for project teams Columbia, MD (March 16, 2021)—Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third service pack for the Vectorworks 2021 product line focusing on key updates for their architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment design customers. Notable highlights...
Federal Investment Helped Advance 22,000 Highway Improvement Projects in 2020, New Data Reveals
National and state-by-state data available artbahighwaydashboard.org WASHINGTON)— State governments leveraged $29 billion in federal funds to advance $70 billion in highway improvements during fiscal year (FY) 2020, according to new federal data. An interactive dashboard created by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) provides U.S. taxpayers, elected officials, news media, and the public with a clear look at how and where all 50 states use their federal highway...
Helsinki Energy Challenge: Four international award winners announced
From floating islands to energy market reform, the winners of the City of Helsinki’s €1 million global competition help point the way to solutions that will help cities around the world decarbonise their urban heating grids. The Helsinki Energy Challenge illustrates the diversity of approaches necessary to achieve a flexible and resilient system. www.energychallenge.hel.fi #HelsinkiEnergyChallenge #HEL2035 HELSINKI, FINLAND: An international jury has selected four winner...
Utility Companies Look For Options to Assist Consumers
EnergyX Solutions, a leader in the building retrofitting movement, explains why retrofitting is the best long-term solution TORONTO, Canada – People want to save money on their utility bills, and utility companies want to help consumers find ways to do just that. Even so, there are only so many things one can do when it comes to behavior modification that will result in energy savings. As more utility companies continue to look for options to provide to their customers, many will be tur...
Breaking The Blueprint
Digital technology allows organizations to collaborate earlier, forming new, more efficient, or safer ways of working. While its implementation is easier for uniform processes in bulk, things get trickier when working at a rarer size and scale. However, technology exists that can make planning a heavy lift project as simple as walking around site – months or years before it even exists. Mammoet World investigates. The role of engineered heavy lifting has always been to support the incredib...
New Timeline Depicts the First Decade of AISC: 1920-1929
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction is celebrating its centennial this year--in true historic style! As we look forward to the next 100 years, we're also taking a deep dive into the decades that defined both AISC and the world in general, starting with the 1920s. A new interactive timeline from AISC places key events from the history of AISC and structural steel in context with other historical benchmarks of the 1920s. "It's remarkable how much we've accomplished--and...
Governor Wolf Commits to Phasing Out Gas Tax, Announces Commission to Develop Funding Solutions
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf today reiterated his commitment to phase out Pennsylvania's gas tax, which is becoming an unreliable source for funding Pennsylvania's vast transportation network. To make this possible and to further address the state's transportation funding needs, the governor has also signed an Executive Order establishing the Transportation Revenue Options Commission, which will develop comprehensive funding recommendations for Pennsylvania's large and agin...
USDA Investing $285M In Transportation, Infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to invest $285 million to help the Forest Service address critical deferred maintenance and improve transportation and recreation infrastructure on national forests and grasslands. [Above photo by the U.S. Forest Service.] That funding comes from the newly created National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, established in 2020 by the Great American Outdoors Act. The USDA noted that the Great American Outdoors Act authorizes funding un...
Wärtsilä to supply and maintain two major interconnected energy storage systems for Texas grid services
200MW of energy storage systems to enable continued growth of wind and solar in the ERCOT market by providing balancing and grid quality services © Wärtsilä Corporation. The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its advanced energy storage technology for two major projects in southern Texas, USA. The interconnected stand-alone systems will have a combined rated capacity of 200 MW. Wärtsilä has also signed ten-year guaranteed asset performance agreements for the installations. The order wa...
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