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Why is OpenBuildings Designer the Perfect BIM Software to Create a Whole Project from Scratch?
- 11 September 2021
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 Be...
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Bentley Systems to Host Infraweek Asia-Pacific on 2-3 September 2021
- 31 August 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-...
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Singapore Operationalises Huge Floating Solar Farm
- 24 August 2021
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 floating solar farms, and will be used to power five water treatme...
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Construction on 800km/h Maglev Train in North China Starting Soon
- 19 August 2021
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 of about 800 km/h, Global Times reported on 15 Aug...
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Facebook, Google Join Hands Building Subsea Cable Infrastructure in Asia-Pacific
- 17 August 2021
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 will help serve the growi...
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US to Test World’s First Highway with In-built Electric Vehicle Charging
- 11 August 2021
Indiana’s Department of Transportation (Indot), Purdue University, and German startup Magment are working to create the world’s first concrete highway that can wirelessly charge the electric vehicles that drive on it, reported GCR. Magnetisable concrete will be tested and analysed at a stretch of road at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus. This first trial will allow engineers to monitor the roa...
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Construction begins on US$17-billion nuclear power plant in China
- 9 August 2021
China National Nuclear Power has started the construction on its US$17-billion project of installing two Russian-designed reactors at the Xudabao nuclear power station in Liaoning Province, northeast China, reported GCR on 6 August. Xudabao 3 is a cooperation between China and Russian. Under the agreement signed in 2018, Rosatom’s subsidiary Atomstroyexport would provide two of its flagship rea...
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China Plans to Build World’s First Waterless Nuclear Reactor
- 28 July 2021
Chinese researchers have unveiled the world’s first thorium-fuelled commercial reactor that will not require water for cooling. This demonstrates a big breakthrough in the Chinese power sector, which today is dependent on coal-fired power plants. Named the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor, the project was begun in 2011. To date, researchers are in the stage of building a 2MW prototype, which is set ...
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Vietnam Starts Rail Freight to Europe
- 22 July 2021
Vietnam Railways started a rail freight service from Hanoi to Belgium for the first time on 20 July through the Asia-Europe rail track, reported Vietnam News. The freight train carried 23 containers with such goods as textiles, leather and footwear. The train departed from Yen Vien station in Ha Noi to Zhenzhou city in China’s Henan province, and later connected to the Asia Europe train pass...
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US Researchers Claim China Building Over 100 ‘Nuclear’ Missile Silos in Desert
- 13 July 2021
US researchers have claimed that China is building more than 100 missile silos in the desert of Gansu province based on analysis of satellite images, which could lead to the expansion of China's nuclear capabilities, reported the Guardian recently. According to the satellite images obtained by the researchers of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, there are at least 119 silos ...
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