For the opening stage of an ambitious metro system development project planned to unify all of the railway networks in Qatar by 2030, Madrid-based FCC Construcción built the south portion of one of three lines in the 85- kilometer-long first phase of the program, and three of the first phase’s stations.
The Sept. 17 acquisition of a 30% share in a Danish technology company by a Canadian manufacturer of concrete admixtures and waterproofing materials may turn out to mark the leading edge of a sweeping change for concrete construction in North America.
Jacobs Engineering’s comprehensive service as EPC contractor on a $700-million pharmaceutical complex for Bristol-Myers Squibb just northwest of Dublin gives it bragging rights for the extremely fast-track 26-month delivery of a facility to begin production of a life-saving anti-cancer drug on schedule, with more such drugs on the horizon.
If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration must be its father. For civil engineer Javier Devesa, a highway construction project manager in Washington, D.C., his frustrations with manually planning and filing lane closure requests with the DOT have inspired him to invent a better way.
The North American Electric Reliability Corp. on Sept. 4 revealed details of a March cyberattack that caused an electric utility’s control center in the western U.S. to briefly lose connections with parts of its system.
In Sweden, a partnership between MIPS Corp., a company that specializes in helmet-liner systems for protecting the brain, and Guardio Safety AB, a Swedish industrial safety firm, has led to the release in June of a construction hardhat, or helmet, designed to mitigate brain-damaging forces that often are suffered in construction falls.
The road to innovation can be a long and winding one, but it might be hard to rival the path followed by the Ocean Renewable Power Co., of Portland, Maine, and its RivGen submersible electric power generating system, which is designed for installation on riverbeds and is based upon the company’s tide-driven units for maritime locations.