Lödige Industries Builds Germany’s Largest Automated Parking System
Hybrid solution provides a total of over 500 parking spaces Dusseldorf/Scherfede – Lödige Industries, one of the world's leading providers of automatic parking systems, is providing an innovative hybrid solution for the MIZAL Campus at Dusseldorf's Medienhafen, combining a conventional underground car park with a fully automated parking system. Automated parking systems allow more efficient storage of cars on a relatively small footprint. In order to create the number of parking spaces req...
ACI Foundation Partners to Launch Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) Tool
Farmington Hills, Mich. – The ACI Foundation has partnered with the Carbon Leadership Forum on the formal launch of the public beta of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool. The EC3 tool is free, open-access tool for architects, engineers, owners, construction companies, building material suppliers and policy makers to compare and reduce embodied carbon emissions from construction materials, and was launched at Greenbuild on November 19, 2019. The ACI Foundation – a not-f...
USGBC Announces Vision for LEED Positive
ATLANTA – Today, during its annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo being held in Atlanta, Ga., the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced LEED Positive – a vision statement and LEED development roadmap that will lay the foundation for a future of LEED that is regenerative. “We must do all we can to leverage our tools and resources to scale up reductions in carbon emissions associated with buildings, communities and cities,” said Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO, USGBC...
Five Profile Products Earn USDA Certified Biobased Product Label
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — Profile® Products announced that it has earned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label for several of its erosion control and vegetative solutions products. The label displays a product’s biobased content, which is the portion of a product that comes from a renewable source, such as plant, animal, marine or forestry feedstocks. The following Profile products have earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product label: ProGanics® Biotic...
HoloBuilder Announces Partnership with Boston Dynamics
Las Vegas, Nevada – HoloBuilder announced today their partnership with Boston Dynamics and released SpotWalk, a new product integration with Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. The new partnership brings autonomous 360° reality capture to construction projects, addressing core productivity inefficiencies that continue hampering the construction industry. Controlled by HoloBuilder’s SpotWalk app, the Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot can walk job sites autonomously, capturing 360° images that record the pr...
Reliability of Hungarian power system enhanced by Wärtsilä automation upgrade & agreement extension
The technology group Wärtsilä and Hungarian utility Tatabanya Erömu Kft. have signed a five-year extension to an existing maintenance agreement, as well as an automation upgrade contract. The signings took place in October 2019. Tatabanya Erömu operates an 18 MW grid balancing power plant in northwestern Hungary running on three Wärtsilä 34SG gas engines. The plant supports the national grid by providing the needed input load to enable grid balancing. In extending the maintenance agreement, W...
South Australia’s Big Battery to Become 50 Percent Bigger
Renewable energy company Neoen is expanding its 100MW/129MWh Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, strengthening its position as the largest utility scale battery in the world. The 50 per cent expansion will increase capacity by 50 MW/64.5 MWh and is expected to be completed by mid-2020. The capacity increase follows a $A15 million grant from the South Australian Government over five years and $8 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) through its Advan...
Tech’s New Frontier? Oil and Gas
READ THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR "THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF OIL AND GAS" BOSTON - According to a new report from Lux Research, the oil companies of the future may resemble the tech companies of today. Moreover, if these companies fail to adapt to the changing digital landscape faced by all industries, they could be left behind. In the new report, The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas, Lux analysts make a strong case for oil and gas companies to embrace the global economy’s shift towa...
Leica Geosystems, Autodesk further collaborate to bring even more efficiency to the building construction industry
Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, announced today a new collaboration with Autodesk, integrating the Leica iCON iCT30 construction layout tool and Leica Viva TS13 and TS16, and Leica Nova TS60 and TM50 total stations with the Autodesk BIM 360 Layout App. With a focus on bringing more efficiency through digitalisation to the building construction industry, Autodesk and Leica Geosystems are collaborating on various projects to integrate technologies. In this latest col...
Orsted’s commissioning of Formosa I marks a milestone for Taiwan’s entry into offshore league, says GlobalData
Danish power company Orsted has officially inaugurated Taiwan’s first commercial offshore windfarm, Formosa 1. The 128 megawatt (MW) plant is a joint venture (JV) project of Orsted (35%), JERA (32.5%), Macquarie Capital (25%) and Swancor (7.5%). It is the first offshore wind project in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region for Orsted, which has worked with its partners to secure NT$18.7bn ($612m) to build the windfarm, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Harminder Singh, Director o...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
