Autodesk’s cloud service, called Forge, is free for developers for the next 90 days, the company announced at its inaugural conference for application programming interface developers. It also announced new investment in three start-ups.
Delayed construction of a 1,120-kilometer-long, $4.5-billion crude-oil pipeline in East Africa changed course when Uganda proposed a second, 1,410-km-long, $4-billion route through Tanzania to the Indian Ocean—abandoning the original agreement to go through Kenya.
The contract involves the construction, with financing from Italy’s credit agency Servizi Assicuative de Commerce Estero, of the 2,200-MW Koysha Dam on the Omo River in the southern part of the country.
In her viewpoint column, “Managing the Construction Manager in a Cost-Plus Contract,” Barbara Res expresses a significantly obsolete understanding of agency construction management.
The June 8 award to Jacobs Engineering of an engineer-procure-construct contract for the $5.3-billion next phase of the giant Oyo Togoi underground copper-and-gold mine in Mongolia gave industry-sector investors and analysts some hope that the sluggish mining sector might be rallying.