Tag: Construction Management

Construction Engineering

a corrosion-resistant, highly active, low-cost

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Palladium — a precious metal — is attracting attention as a fuel cell electrocatalyst, which requires metals with high electrocatalytic activity. Because of the high cost of palladium, creating a palladium-zinc alloy should improve catalytic activity while reducing costs. In addition, corrosion resistance is important for potential electrocatalyst materials because catalytic reactions use extremely corrosive alkaline aqueous solutions that degrade … Read More

Construction Equipment

Linking up With Jeff Beavers

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Jeff Beavers joined NECA as executive director, network integration and services in February 2022. Previously, he was South-Central region director, president-elect and president of BICSI.

What’s your background?

I entered the information and communication technology industry at age 19 as a cable splicer in the U.S. Air Force. I’ve worked in OSP construction, as a systems tech from the early

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Construction Management

Architecture + interiors practice JZA+D promotes five

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Award-winning integrated design firm JZA+D has recently announced the appointment of Pam McStay to lead the firm’s marketing efforts. At the same time, the Princeton, N.J.-based, globally recognized firm has also announced a raft of internal promotions for staff architects and designers. These include the elevation of:

  • Richard Perry, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP to Principal
  • Benjamin Grace, AIA to Senior
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Construction

Lafarge pleads guilty to funding terrorism

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Lafarge pleads guilty to funding terrorism
A Lafarge batching plant (not in Syria)

According to court documents, Lafarge and its Damascus-based subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS), made payments to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham – better known as ISIS – and its ally, the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), in exchange for permission to operate a cement plant in Syria from 2013 to 2014.

The bribes

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Construction Engineering

Drexel Materials science researchers demonstrate MXene

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A recent discovery by materials science researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering might one day prevent electronic devices and components from going haywire when they’re too close to one another. A special coating that they developed, using a type of two-dimensional material called MXene, has shown to be capable of absorbing and disbursing the electromagnetic fields that are the … Read More