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  • Oxy awards Galfar two construction contracts

    Omani construction firm, Galfar Engineering and Contracting has said it has won two construction contracts worth OR19.1m from Occidental Oman (Oxy) and Oman Medical College, Muscat Daily has reported. The first deal by Oxy, worth OR15m, is for the construction of a pipeline and fabrication work at the Safah and Wadi Latham oilfields. Galfar was also awarded a OR4.1m contract by Oman Medical ...

  • Nuclear Resurgence Dims Due to Rising Costs Low Demand

    ----- Advertising ----- In the span of a single week, the nuclear power industry's hoped-for U.S. resurgence took a few steps backward as several projects and existing plants from across the country either were shut down or began to face increased scrutiny from regulators due to ongoing problems and financial issues.The setbacks raised the specter of a long-term decrease in domestic ...

  • Red Line construction project gets started

    The last train pulls into the 95th Street station on Sunday, May 19, 2013, as the CTA begins its five-month long reconstruction of the Red Line on the South Side. (John J. Kim/Chicago ...

  • China Just Endorsed Construction Of Its Biggest Hydropower Dam Yet

    reported on Wednesday that China’s environmental ministry has okayed the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Dadu River in the Sichuan province, which when completed will be the country’s largest. China’s energy mix was 9.4 percent renewable as of 2011, and the Sichuan project is part of the country’s effort to boost itself to 15 percent by 2020. Hydroelectric ...

  • Zambia Hike of Cement Price Guts Construction Sector

    The National Council for Construction (NCC) says the increase in the price of cement is unfortunate especially coming after rises in fuel in other critical sectors. NCC Executive Director Dr Sylvester Mashamba said there is need to probe the widespread increase in the general price of commodities. He said the increase in the price of cement would increase the cost of construction. "On ...

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Night of the Demons [DVD]

Night of the Demons [DVD]

By the late 1980s, the slasher subgenre had largely run its course, and filmmakers were looking for new and creative ways to gather nubile, oversexed teenagers together and kill them off one by one without resorting to the old standby, the psychopathic killer. Night of ... ...

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  • Auto engineers too few or just harder to find

    Younger engineers have more options DETROIT -- The shortage of engineers has been as common a lament within the auto industry as government regulations.But is it real? A recent study by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute argues there's actually a glut. EPI contends that there are more American graduates in science, technology, engineering and manufacturing backgrounds than ...

  • Degree in civil engineering coming to PNC

    WESTVILLE - The Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE) has granted approval to Purdue University North Central for the College of Engineering and Technology to offer a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering. PNC students will have the opportunity to enroll in these bachelor's degree classes for the fall of 2013.This becomes the 23rd bachelor's degree program offered by ...

  • Construction to cause delays on MoPac

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - Traffic on MoPac is about to get a little slower but in the end will help alleviate drive time in Austin. The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority hired CH2M HILL in February of 2013 to complete the project which will add new lanes on north MoPac from Ladybird Lake to Parmer Lane. Beginning Sunday lanes along MoPac will be closed from Ladybird Lake to Parmer in 15-minute ...

  • Engineering Olympics teach kids its okay to fail

    Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Cunningham Middle School students Sierra Mendoza, 13 (left), and Jason Jasso, 12, work with their materials as they build a wind turbine Friday during the school’s Engineering Olympics. Students had a set budget and bought supplies with available funds. In addition to building the turbines they also will present them to classmates. Cunningham Middle ...

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