Provides the latest RSS feeds for Engineering News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page China National News.com http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/cat/e25e481de4af3ed3/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 15:30:51 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:30:51 -0400 30 GMR Infrastructure and Jaiprakash Associates gained 14.18%, 12.94%, 10.51% and 10.42% respectively among shares of other construction companies. ET construction index that represents construction sector has reported gains of 13.12% during the same period, ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214601777/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:17:49 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214601777/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 It could take weeks to get commuter rail service in Connecticut back to normal following the derailment of two trains Friday, the mayor of Bridgeport said. The evening rush-hour derailment between Bridgeport and South Norwalk caused about 70 injuries and tore up the tracks, which Mayor Bill Finch said would need extensive repairs that would greatly complicate transportation into the New York ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214601816/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:13:40 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214601816/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 WAM DUBAI: Dubai World Central ( DWC ), the world's first purpose-built aerotropolis, has announced new developments at DWC 's Logistics District, including the start of construction on the fourth complex of agent warehouses. Covering a total area of almost 8,700 square meters, with 5,443 sqm for warehouses and 1,373 sqm for office area, the new agent warehouses will be open for ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214601790/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:09:46 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214601790/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 announced three contracts to publicly traded companies on Friday. Two of these awards went to a single company -- the Jacobs Technology subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214600828/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:22:47 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214600828/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 H.B. Fuller Company, a leading supplier of adhesives to the hygiene market has introduced two families of nonwoven adhesives to meet the growing demand for lower odor construction adhesives as well as enhanced ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214600827/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:05:26 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214600827/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Employees of Bulgaria's Directorate for National Construction Control, DNSK, are conducting Saturday an emergency probe in a Thracian sanctuary. The probe involves not only a document check, but a check on location, which is reported as a construction site of a family hotel in the area of "Belintash," the village of Vrata, near the town of Asenovgrad. The press office of the ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214599859/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:33:18 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214599859/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the Internet — but he ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214598284/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:13 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214598284/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 On Tuesday night, the IG Metall (IGM) and the employers' association in the state of Bavaria signed a contract for workers in the engineering industry. It serves as a model agreement for 3.7 million workers employed in the sector throughout Germany.Engineering workers will receive an extra 3.4 percent pay from July and another 2.2 percent wage increase commencing May 1, 2014. The contract ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214596907/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:32 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214596907/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Traffic engineers spent weeks scrutinizing scientific formulas to perfect how signals need to change to keep traffic moving and commuters happy. Among their recommendations: a GPS time-clock system and shortening the signal cycles during peak ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214596934/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:53:26 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214596934/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Ignat Kaneff, founder of Kaneff Group of Cos., says he believes that higher education is more important than ever for young Canadians. (TIM FRASER FOR THE GLOBE AND ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214592870/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:40:53 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214592870/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 SIBU: People who intend to set up an automobile workshop two years from now will need to have an engineering certificate.Federation of Automobile Workshop Owners Association of Malaysia president Too Peng Huat said the government would implement strict requirements for opening up a car repair workshop in 2015 and all workshop owners must have an engineering certificate."Many already in the ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214592871/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:55 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214592871/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 CORPUS CHRISTI -- About 25 Lamar volunteer firefighters soon will have a new station to call home. Construction will start next month on a steel, hurricane-ready, 9,300-square-foot building in the 300 block of Bois D' Arc Street, officials said. Officials said the building, more than double the size of the current fire station, is expected to have four bays, a training room, office, EMS ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214592864/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:02:09 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214592864/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 The second phase project for Baoting’s Binglanggu Valley is under construction, and is an important part of the demonstration base for Taiwan-Hainan cross-straits exchange. The phase 2 project covers a land area of 100 mu with a total investment of 30 million yuan. The project boasts a Taiwan folk culture hall of 320 square meters and a food and handicrafts hall of 220 square meters, ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214591730/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:32:55 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214591730/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Cork Peterson, BSConE’66 Gale M. "Cork" Peterson, Jr. (BSConE'66), a longtime supporter and collaborator with the Iowa State construction engineering program, was recently named to the Iowa State University Construction Engineering Hall of Fame. Peterson joined his business partner, Cordell Peterson, in 1968 to co-own Peterson Contractors, Inc. (PCI), after graduating from ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214591738/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:10:44 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214591738/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 North Carolina added 500 construction jobs between March and April, one hopeful sign of a turnaround in the works. But taking a longer frame of reference, the key sector still has a way to go before the promise of any recovery is actually realized. As of the close of April, total statewide construction was 169,900, down 4,000, or 2.3 percent, from the same month in 2012, according to ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214591731/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:02:00 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214591731/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Santo Domingo.- The Minister of Tourism on Thursday announced a plan to start the massive construction of hotel rooms as soon as possible, to lodge a higher number of tourists expected as the result of the sector's promotion abroad. Francisco Javier Garcia said the country has more than 38,000 approved hotel rooms, but noted that all the projects require financing. He said all the projects ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590431/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:11:15 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590431/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WAC Lighting will co-sponsor Nassau County's First Annual Science and Engineering Fair for all public and private middle school and high school students in Nassau County, New York on Saturday, May ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590442/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:31 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590442/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Although Google's keynote at the I/O conference this week focused heavily on the APIs and behind-the-scenes development of the Android operating system, it looks like there's a lot more in store. This idea was especially apparent in a panel discussion today involving eleven members of the Android development team. The team sat for a forty-minute question and answer ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590443/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:49:23 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590443/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 ----- Advertising ----- This week, we look at a crawler excavator from LiuGong and a Pneumatic Rock Hammer system from HammerHead. Click to begin the slide ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590444/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:49:09 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590444/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 with a United Nations award recognizing their use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to improve road safety. The recipients of this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Award were Swiss President Ueli Maurer, Volkmar Denner, the chairman of the Board of Management of the company Robert Bosch GmbH, and Jean Todt, President of the International Automobile ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589164/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:10:58 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589164/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, on what the Public-Private Partnership bill will do for Florida's economy. The commercial construction industry should get a boost from a Florida House of Representatives bill expected to gain the backing of Gov. Rick Scott. Organizers of a conference on May 16-17 in Orlando hosted by the Florida Council for Public Private Partnerships Inc. endorsed House Bill ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590375/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:05:12 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590375/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Spartak station of Moscow’s Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro line /traditionally marked on the city plans and maps with the crimson color/ is in the phase of active construction works now, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday. The station is being built by the side of the Spartak stadium, which is being erected on territory of the former Tushino airfield, and ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589159/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:02:26 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589159/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Construction employment shrunk on both sides of the state line in April, falling by 0.7 percent in Missouri and 1.6 percent in Kansas, according to an analysis of federal employment data from the Associated General Contractors of America. For the month, Missouri lost 700 construction industry jobs, falling to 104,000 employed in April. In Kansas, the industry lost 900 jobs, with total employment ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590432/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:58:16 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590432/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Oliver McGee, 2012-13 American Council on Education Fellow at UCLA, gives his take on landing a job in engineering. From Sologig: ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589168/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:48:42 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589168/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Ta-Nehisi has used an imagine of Walter White, the first African American head of the NAACP, to illustrate the pliability of the black identity. It certainly shows that there are no fixed definitions of race which are particularly useful. But that is a misconception of biological science, which is rife with exceptions and boundary conditions, and characterized by an instrumental perspective. The ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589169/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:42:12 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589169/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 ----- Advertising ----- In early June, the University of Maine will launch a small-scale offshore demonstrator of a floating wind turbine, fabricated in its lab with a lightweight concrete foundation and composite tower. If successfully connected to the grid from off the coast of Castine, Maine, it will be the first of its kind in North America.The approximately 65-ft-tall turbine prototype is ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589170/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:07 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589170/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 at L.A.’s Architecture + Design Museum, working with photographer Meiko Takechi Arquillos. They set up a photo booth that paid homage to, and poked fun at, iconic portraits of Charles and Ray Eames (left), I.M. Pei, Le Corbusier, and ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589171/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:28 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214589171/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Summer is here, and construction is picking up in Alabama just not as quickly as in the rest of the Southeast U.S. Alabama's construction job creation rate was the worst in the Southeast in April, according to a new report. The number of construction jobs fell 1.7 percent to 79,000 in April from 80,400 in April 2012, the Associated General Contractors of America reported today. That job loss ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590433/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:25:24 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214590433/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Construction employment in the Bay State slipped by 600 jobs in April, a shift that tracked closely to a modest decline nationally. According to new data released by the Associated General Contractors of America, a trade group in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts ranked 22nd among U.S. states in April with a 0.5 percent drop in construction employment for the month. The shift brought the ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214587807/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:51:21 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214587807/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Dr. Ronald DePinho, president of M.D. Anderson. The president of University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center said in an email to employees this week the hospital system will install austerity measures that include freezing of wages, slow-down in hiring and the postponement of construction projects. "This has been a fulfilling year of unprecedented progress and recognition and a ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214587805/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:20:38 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214587805/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 By Gavin Engelbrecht THE BOSS of a heavy engineering firm faces the prospect of jail after he was convicted today (Friday, May 17) of the manslaughter of a worker who was hit by a metal roof beam. Allan Turnbull was found guilty by a jury following a four-week trial over the death of 53-year-old Kenneth Joyce ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214586320/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:59 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214586320/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Tweet Iowa State University is about halfway through a three-month long online survey of livestock producers' use of distillers grains. The nationwide survey is focused on the beef, dairy, swine and poultry sectors. Kurt Rosentrater, an assistant professor in the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering Iowa State University, said the survey may have to be extended if there ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214586321/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:26 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214586321/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 C.G. Schmidt Inc. Clock Shadow Building (retail, mixed use building in Milwaukee) Construction firms with Milwaukee-area offices are in the spotlight this week as the Top 25 tout the total dollar volume generated from local offices in 2012. As construction work begins to show signs of increased activity around the area, contractors are seeing jobs and profits increasing. The list is ranked by the ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214586311/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:54:59 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214586311/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 La Paz, May 17 (Prensa Latina) The construction of the cable car system linking the capital of Bolivia with the outlying city of El Alto, the longest in the world, is more than 60 percent complete, official sources said today. According to the coordinator of the Cable Transport Unit, Cesar Dockweiler, the hardest job, the construction of three lines, is already completed and it is expected that ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214584514/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:20:41 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214584514/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Caracas, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela is showing great progress in the construction of homes to benefit the population, particularly for the disadvantaged, said the State Minister for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas, Francisco Sesto. According to Sesto, since the creation of Venezuela's Great Housing Mission (GMVV) by the late President Hugo Chavez in March, 2011, to ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214584633/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:20:40 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214584633/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Overland Park's real estate scene is bustling. The Kansas City suburb issued building permits in April for projects valued at $115 million a higher dollar value than any month in the citys 53-year history. Thats higher than even the 1990s and early 2000s when the Sprint campus was being built, Sean Reilly, the citys public information officer, said Thursday. Seven of the top 10 building ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214584635/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 11:19:17 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214584635/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Construction spending dropped in Europe from February to March, the European Union's statistical office Eurostat said Friday. Spending dropped 1.7 percent in the 17-member eurozone month to month and 1.1 percent in the 27-member European Union. The figures show an accelerated decline in construction outlays. From January to February, construction slipped 0.3 percent in the eurozone and ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214583071/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:41:46 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214583071/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Over the next five years, many new vehicles will have transmissions with up to 10 speeds, replacing the mostly six-speed transmissions in cars now. Though designed for refinement and performance, the transmissions aim mostly to help meet stricter federal fuel economy and pollution standards. "We are trying to extract efficiency out of every subsystem of the vehicle," said Mircea Gradu, ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214583079/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:34:24 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214583079/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Kelley Construction has opened a Louisiana office in what president Joe Kelley expects will be a "hotbed for growth for the next 20 years." Kelley Construction Inc. has opened an office/warehouse in Baton Rouge, La., the companys first outside of Louisville. The Louisville-based general contractor opened what it is calling its Gulf Coast office mainly to have a local presence that would ... http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214583072/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:07:14 -0400 http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/214583072/scat/e25e481de4af3ed3