Related Links: Standard 201P, Facility Smart Grid Information Model A proposed standard that would provide a common basis for consumers to describe, manage and communicate electrical energy consumption and forecasting is open for an advisory public review until Sept. 3, according to ASHRAE. The group is developing Standard 201P, Facility Smart Grid Information Model, with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. “Historically, electricity consumption has been viewed as a collection of dumb loads at the end of a distribution system," with almost no interaction between the loads and those responsible for electricity generation and distribution, says Steve Bushby, chairman of the
In October, the National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering expects to issue a "re-competition" solicitation for four to six national earthquake engineering research centers. The competition to create the infrastructure for the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation 2, or NEES2, will take place in fiscal 2013 and 2014. NEES2 funding is expected during fiscal 2015-19. Contingent on the availability of National Science Foundation funds, the Directorate for Engineering expects to seek approval for a NEES2 cooperative agreement in mid-2014.In 2004, the National Science Foundation created NEES to give researchers the tools to learn how earthquakes and
Courtesy of Hill International The nine faces of the three tallest buildings in Baku contain of some 10,000 LED light fixtures that evoke a raging fire against the night sky. "Tower light, tower bright, will you guide my way tonight?" A three-building project under way in Baku, Azerbaijan, gives a new twist to a familiar lyric and a new look to the Caspian Sea city's skyline.The Baku night sky first brightened on May 13, when the team flicked the switch on the thousands of red, green and blue LED lights on the nine facades of the three buildings, named the
Despite many challenges, Controlled Demolition Inc. successfully led the razing, using explosives, of the 14-story Radio Network House in Christchurch, which was damaged in the 2011 New Zealand earthquake. The Aug. 5 implosion may open the door to other controlled demolitions in New Zealand, says CDI. “The structure did exactly what CDI said it would, in spite of the extraordinarily heavy rebar in the 1986 [structure] that was built to what was already a rigorous seismic code,” says J. Mark Loizeaux, CDI’s president.He adds that dealing with the concrete structure's reinforcing steel, the area's poor soil conditions and the limited
Israel has issued two major international tenders for large-scale transportation projects: one for a contractor to tunnel the first segment of Tel Aviv's $2.5-billion light-rail system and the other for a firm to manage construction of a $400-million airport near the southern Red Sea port of Eilat.
Projecting a boom in many global energy markets, particularly in North America, Texas-based engineer-contractor CB&I has moved to add capacity by announcing July 30 that it would acquire The Shaw Group Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $3 billion.
Predicting energy demand to grow 9% annually, the United Arab Emirates announced last month that it has started construction on the country's first nuclear powerplant after receiving design and building approval for the first of four planned units.
One of Israel's worst pollution sites—a seven-kilometer stretch of the Kishon River near the northern city of Haifa that had been tainted for decades by industrial and untreated municipal waste—is set for what officials say is a first-of-its-kind cleanup in the country.
The Obama administration and California state officials have unveiled a new “preferred alternative” for conveying water from northern California to the central part of the state while protecting the fragile California Bay Delta ecosystem.
A French subcontractor is using a patented precast technique to build one of the world's longest precast-concrete arch-tunnel sections at the site of a residential complex along South Korea's new Suwon-Kwangmyeong Expressway.
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