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Building with nature: cities that steal smart ideas from plants and animals

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
Architects, designers and urban planners are borrowing from natural phenomena as diverse as termite mounds and resilient grapefruits to design smart, sustainable cities ... Yet a growing number of progressive architects, designers, engineers, scientists and urban planners are looking to the Earth’s systems for inspiration ... CH2’s architect, Mick Pearce, also designed the Eastgate mixed-used building in Harare....

Korea's Tallest Tower Embodies Industrial Malaise

Edit Chosun Ilbo 20 Apr 2016
designed the building's foundation, while architects KPF and structural engineers LERA of the U.S ... Canada's RWDI designed the building's wind tunnel that enables the structure to withstand high winds of up to 80 m/s, while Japan's Lixil and U.S.-based CDC designed the outer shell ... Instead they entrusted foreign companies with the basic designs and only came up with the final blueprint....

Robot for differently abled among PEC students’ creations

Edit Indian Express 20 Apr 2016
The multipurpose robot for the differently abled was an endeavour of five students of the electronics and communication engineering department under the guidance of Dr Neena Gupta and Arun Kumar ... One such model was the Agricultural Automation, designed by the students of the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department....

Event: 30th Annual Cork Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering Exhibition Thursday 28th April 2016 > 2.00pm to 8.30pm (CIT - Cork Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
The dovetailing of the exhibition with CIT developed core initiatives of multidisciplinary modules and projects, innovation start-up company internships, CIT Innovation Week and Student Prizes for Innovation, are ground-breaking not only in Ireland, but are also unique in a European academic context to create the academic and institute structures designed to engineer a highly effective college-wide student innovation eco-system....

Michel St. Pierre Rejoins SOM as New U.S. West Coast Planning and Urban Design Practice Lead (SOM - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
West Coast planning and urban design practice in SOM's San Francisco office ... Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the leading architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban planning firms in the world, with an 80-year reputation for design excellence and a portfolio that includes some of the most important architectural accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries....

LAUFEN @ SALONE DEL MOBILE 2016, MILAN, ITALY (Laufen Bathrooms AG)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
The company puts a special accent on bespoke projects developed with architects and designers. an installation that underlines Laufen's role as a worldwide leader in the production of custom solutions for bathroom design ... Impressoes - Brazilian designers ... A masterpiece of Swiss engineering and design, an essential piece that combines supreme luxury and maximum hygiene, the highest technology and clean, elegant lines....

JinkoSolar Supplies DST with 7 MW of PV Modules for Its First Project

Edit Stockhouse 20 Apr 2016
Following design, project approval and land development periods, DST Enerji started site work in September 2015 ... "We have added our engineering during ... Arda Kristaporyan, Country Manager Turkey at JinkoSolar, commented, "We are very proud of becoming a partner of DST and developing such unique projects in terms of design, engineering and construction....

Japan promises to revolutionize how cars look

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
Some of Japan's top automakers, with a reputation for quality performance wrapped in often bland design, are turning to the country's pop culture to give them "J-factor" and help set them apart in a world of increasingly look-alike cars ... However, Toyota's global design chief Tokuo Fukuichi said the resemblance was not necessarily intended, and was more to do with engineers' efforts to improve the car's aerodynamics....

In a world of look-alike cars, can Japanese pop culture heroes help?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 20 Apr 2016
TOKYO (Reuters) - Some of Japan's top automakers, with a reputation for quality performance wrapped in often bland design, are turning to the country's pop culture to give them "J-factor" and help set them apart in a world of increasingly look-alike cars ... However, Toyota's global design chief Tokuo Fukuichi said the resemblance was not necessarily intended, and was more to do with engineers' efforts to improve the car's aerodynamics....

Five important trends in Russian education

Edit RBTH 20 Apr 2016
“For instance, jobs in engineering and industry will see a good growth in Russia,” Vladimirskaya says. “The level of machine-engineering in Russia has not traditionally been that high, which is why demand for robotics engineers in the automotive industry will be lower than for robotics engineers in medicine, industry or the defense sector.” Active parents ... Engineering and robotics....

What Pinterest looks for in employees: 'People who have more interests than time'

Edit Business Insider 20 Apr 2016
When hiring, the company looks for people who crave collaboration between divisions, because its designers and engineers work together very closely ... The company just completely revamped its iPhone app, making it much faster with a sleeker design, a massive effort that spanned teams (and months)....

Shareholder Update – April 2016 (ECT - Environmental Clean Technologies Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
The Company has continued to advance the Techno-Economic Feasibility (TEF) study with leading pyro-metallurgical engineering firm M.N ... As previously announced, the Coldry process design developed with Thermax in India is well advanced and has already established sufficiently robust capex and opex estimates ... Dastur (Matmor design engineers)....

Experts allay fears over utilization of deeper underground space (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. Shanghai Municipal Government). Experts have allayed fears among some Shanghai residents that the city's utilization of deeper underground space may have an impact on the foundations. Shanghai's soil is soft and has high moisture, which is a disadvantage, said Sun Wei, chief engineer of underground institute of Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute (Group) Co Ltd ... (noodl....
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