By eliminating "noise" of unwanted readings, new sensor device developed at the University of Birmingham is more accurate and up to 10 times faster than current instruments, its developers claim.
UK and Finnish technologies provide designers quicker reads of embodied carbon impacts of their structural and materials choices. "We've been waiting for [something like this] for as long as I've been in the industry," says one engineering firm manager.
ITER project researchers generated 59 megajoules of sustained energy, averaging 11 MW over five seconds, breaking a previous record by a factor of three
Industry has until March to develop a plan and funding to replace on mid-height buildings the type of cladding linked to the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London that caused 72 deaths.
Contractor Ferrovial used two 500-ton crawler cranes to raise and rotate six vertically cast floater elements for transport and assembly to support the 2-MW turbine in 85 ft of water.
The worldwide sector is set to rise 2.3% a year in real terms, reaching $16.6 trillion by 2030, with four of the 10 fastest growing markets in Asia, says a London-based economic forecaster.
