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Bentley Systems Announces the Finalists in the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
- 20 September 2022
Winners to Be Announced at an Awards Ceremony in London on 15 November Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, on 19 September announced the finalists in the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world...
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Samsung Group Wins Bid on US$11bn Airport Project in the Philippines
- 15 September 2022
Samsung Group and European subsidiaries have won bids for an US$11-billion airport project in the Philippines, on which China bid only US$10 billion. According to Nikkei Asia on 15 September, Sangley Point Airport is located south of Manila in Cavite Province, the Philippines. It will be built by the SPIA Development Consortium, a subsidiary of South Korea's Samsung Group. Sangley Airport...
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Construction of New Siem Reap International Airport 40% Completed as of September
- 14 September 2022
Construction of the new Siem Reap Angkor International Airport has been 40% completed by September, while the developer is aiming for 70% completion by the end of 2022. The progress of the construction of the new international airport in Siem Reap was mentioned during a site inspection led by HE Mao Havannal, Minister in charge of the Secretariat of State for Civil Aviation, on 12 September. ...
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Dubai Mulls Building Massive Space-Age Ring to Encircle World’s Tallest Building
- 12 September 2022
An experimental architecture firm ZNera Space has proposed a conceptual design of a space-age ring structure to encircle the world's tallest skyscraper the Burj Khalifa, according to CNN. Known as Downtown Circle, the project is a massive five-storey circular structure showcasing urban planning in a wildly ambitious design combined with a series of mesmerizing illustrations. The structure wi...
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Developer to Establish Zero-Carbon, Car-Free City in Kuwait
- 8 September 2022
Dubai-based developer URB plans to build a zero-carbon, car-free city in Kuwait to accommodate up to 100,000 residents, according to GCR. Located on a 16-sq-km site, south of Kuwait, the city named XZero would recycle all its water and waste. The city will host over 30,000 homes powered by renewable energy and fitted with sensors that automatically adjust lighting and ventilation. XZero will...
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Chinese gov’t gives greenlight to first fully autonomous taxi service
- 3 September 2022
The Chinese government has granted permits to Chinese technology company Baidu to first develop and run the fully driverless “robotaxi” service on open roads. Named “Apollo Go”, the service is now authorised to run in Chongqing and Wuhan, with five Apollo vehicles operating in each city, according to GCR. The areas of service cover 13 square kilometres in the Wuhan Economic and Technological...
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Australian chemists invents self-glueing bricks from cooking oil
- 2 September 2022
Researchers at Adelaide’s Flinders University have invented bricks from wasted cooking oil that can bond without mortar. According to GCR, the brick is a lightweight and durable polymer block that undergoes a sulfur-based adhesive reaction when brought into contact with each other in the presence of a catalyst. The bond created by the process is comparable to that achieved by super glue. ...
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Singaporean Researchers Invent Fireproof Wood Coating
- 2 September 2022
Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented an invisible coating that can make wood fireproof. The coating is only 0.075mm thick and is almost transparent and invisible. When heated by a flame, the coating turns into a char that acts as fire insulation for the wood underneath. The coating has also passed industrial standard tests with the hi...
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Thai Government Approves US$300m for New Zoo
- 1 September 2022
Following the closure of the beloved Dusit Zoo in 2018, the Thai government has announced the approval of US$300 million to construct a new zoo, education center, and conservation facility on the outskirts of Bangkok. Dusit Zoo was originally built 84 years ago by King Chulalongkorn as his private garden, while the new facility will be constructed on a 48- hectare site in Pathum Thani province ...
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PM asks to study on upgrading Lvea Em area into a new city in Kandal province
- 31 August 2022
The Prime Minister of Cambodia Samdech Techo Hun Sen has proposed to study Lvea Em district as a new city for Kandal province. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for flyover construction on August 31, Samdech Techo Hun Sen said the new city would be administrated under the control of the Kandal province. “Study is made on upgrading Lvea Em area to become Lvea Em city. Once done, the cit...
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