NYC East Side Coastal Resiliency project earns Envision Gold

Award recognizes projects that meet a variety of sustainability, equity, and quality of life criteria

The East Side Coastal Resiliency project, among the largest and most technically complex infrastructure projects in New York City’s history, has earned the prestigious and highly coveted Envision Gold Award for Sustainable Infrastructure from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. HNTB Corporation, through a joint venture

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Leeds low carbon heat network expands

Leeds low carbon heat network expands

The £7.4m extension marks the third phase of the Leeds PIPES network and means that more buildings in new areas of the city will be able to hook up to the district heating network.

Leeds City Council has secured £3.06m of grant funding from the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP), a government funding programme, to enable the upgrade to go

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Engineers model nanoscale crystal dynamics in easy-to-view

Rice University engineers who mimic atom-scale processes to make them big enough to see have modeled how shear influences grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials.

That the boundaries can change so readily was not entirely a surprise to the researchers, who used spinning arrays of magnetic particles to view what they suspect happens at the interface between misaligned crystal domains.

According

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WE22, World’s Largest Conference and Career Fair for Women

What: The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) will host WE22 in Houston, Texas

WE22, SWE’s Annual Conference, is the world’s largest conference and career fair for women in engineering and technology. WE22 attracts over 16,000 women engineers who have the highest standards in professional and career development, and the meeting offers endless career opportunities and life-changing networking opportunities. Engineers will

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CPS acquisition just the start for US investor

CPS acquisition just the start for US investor

The new owner plans to use CPS as a launch pad for acquisitions in the building services sector.

“Several active acquisition discussions are currently underway,” HIG said.

CPS, formerly Cambridge Piped Services, provides installation and maintenance services across heating, cooling, ventilation and electrical systems to clients in the healthcare, life sciences, defence and education end-markets. The existing management team of

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