Treviicos shores up the levee in Florida

This year, ground engineering specialist Treviicos expects to finish a decade-long project to shore up the 230km Herbert Hoover Dike in southern Florida. Rod Sweet reports.

Life around Florida’s biggest lake, Lake Okeechobee, has always been risky. Water levels rise during the rainy season from May to October. And when farmers began cultivating the rich soils around it in the

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How to Improve Pumpability of Lightweight Aggregate

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Pumping lightweight aggregate concrete is challenging due to the high water absorption of the aggregate in it which results in issues such as segregation, slump loss, inconsistent mix, etc. Therefore, engineers and contractors should consider appropriate strategies to overcome problems associated with pumping lightweight aggregate concrete.

ACI 213R-03 recommends several measures to improve the pumpability

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First Standardized Solar Asset Ratings Introduced

DroneBase, a California-based provider of intelligent aerial imagery for high-value infrastructure, with customers in the solar, wind, construction and critical infrastructure industries, announced the first set of solar asset ratings, in conjunction with expansion of its solar scanning to cover all of North America.

            The solar industry is scaling on a significant level, thanks in part to the Solar Energy

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EarthCam Premieres Live Weather Service for Construction

EarthCam, the leader in live camera technology, content and services, today at Autodesk University introduced its Live Weather Service, which uses an onsite, wireless, solar-powered sensor array to detect and calculate 16 points of weather and environmental data. This data is combined with NOAA observed conditions and radar maps to create precise, localized microclimate information – far more accurate

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Aurecon-Arup JV chosen for Auckland Light Rail

Aurecon-Arup JV chosen for Auckland Light Rail
Auckland Light Rail is seen as crucial to the creation of a modern multi-modal transport system

The alliance will plan and design the 24-kilometre light rail network, half of which will run underground. The project is essential to the creation of a modern, multi-modal transport system in Auckland.

Auckland Light Rail will encourage quality growth, give people more travel choices,

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