International News
Netherlands Unveils Solar Powered Self-Sustaining Mobile Home
The Netherlands has unveiled an innovation of the first solar-powered mobile home, called Stella Vita, reported GCR. The innovation was developed by the Eindhoven University of Technology, which they dubbed a “self-sustaining house on wheels”. Stella Vita can generate solar energy independent of charging stations while allowing passengers to shower, watch TV, charge their laptops […]
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Taiwanese Firms Seek Distribution Partners for Innovative Construction Products in Cambodia
Taiwan’s Commerce Development Research Institute (CDRI), an institute funded by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, is seeking business partners in Cambodia to import and distribute a wide range of high-quality innovative construction products and services from Taiwan to Cambodia. Seeking business partners and distributors in Cambodia is part of Wow! Taiwan, a CDRI overseas marketing […]
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Japan’s Mitsubishi Invests in Building SEA’s Biggest Onshore Wind Power Plant
Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp has purchased 24% in a 600-MW onshore wind farm project in Laos through its subsidiary Hong Kong-based Imperial Energy Asia Development Ltd (IEAD). The development activities of the project will start next year and are to be built in a southern Laos province. Power generation is set to start in 2025. Imperial […]
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Ford, SK Innovations Co-Invest US$11.4 billion to Build Enormous Electric Vehicle Factories
Ford Motor Co. and South Korea-based energy company SK Innovations are co-investing US$11.4 billion to build two new enormous manufacturing campuses for electric vehicles, reported CNN on 27 September. Ford plans to share US$7 billion in the investment, which is part of its mega US$30 billion spending toward its shift to building more electric vehicles […]
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China Pledges to End Foreign Coal Financing
China has pledged to end the financing of coal-fired power plants abroad and turn its support to green energy, according to US consultant Global Energy Monitor (GEM). Speaking at the UN General Assembly recently, Chinese president Xi Jinping said China would “step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy and […]
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Why is OpenBuildings Designer the Perfect BIM Software to Create a Whole Project from Scratch?
What is OpenBuildings Designer? OpenBuildings Designer—formerly AECOsim Buildings Designer—is an interdisciplinary BIM software that includes tools for architectural, structural, ventilation, plumbing, and electrical design. It is the evolution of the Bentley BIM offering and replaces older applications: Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structural Modeler, Bentley Building Mechanical Systems, and Bentley Building Electrical Systems. Who can benefit from […]
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Bentley Systems to Host Infraweek Asia-Pacific on 2-3 September 2021
Industry Leaders Will Discuss the Role of Digital Transformation in Engineering and Construction, Transportation, Water, Energy Utilities, and Real-Estate What: Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, announces that Bentley Infraweek Asia-Pacific will host a two-day virtual event in partnership with Microsoft. It will be streamed live for India and South Asia, South-East Asia, and […]
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Singapore Operationalises Huge Floating Solar Farm
Following over a year of construction, Singapore has turned on a huge 45-hectare floating solar photovoltaic (PV) farm located in Tengeh Reservoir, reported GCR at the end of July. Equivalent in size to some 45 football fields, with 122,000 panels, the 60 megawatt-peak (MWp) array is thought to be one of the world’s largest inland […]
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Construction on 800km/h Maglev Train in North China Starting Soon
An 800km/h maglev test line, for the world’s fastest ground vehicle, is scheduled to begin construction in North China’s Shanxi Province, as the preparation work is already complete. The test line is part of the laboratory work for the low-vacuum magnetic levitation high-speed train project which can run faster than airplanes, at a ground speed […]
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Facebook, Google Join Hands Building Subsea Cable Infrastructure in Asia-Pacific
Two Silicon Valley giants – Google and Facebook – announced their cooperation in building a new subsea cable system by 2024 to improve internet connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region, reported The Straits Times on Monday 16 August. Known as Apricot, this large-scale infrastructure project will link Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It […]
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