The city’s grand plan to join green infrastructure with housing and public spaces. URBAN PLANNING GETS A PARISIAN OVERHAUL Urban planning in Paris is experiencing a renaissance with housing, public spaces and transport connections all joined seamlessly with each other and the historic city. The romance of Paris for so…
We are on the cusp of Industry 4.0, a revolution in the way technology is used to boost productivity in all industries. It promises to radically alter the skills needed in all professionals, civil engineers included. But how prepared is the civil engineering industry for this change?
MAKING THE LEAP Engineering is on the cusp of a technological leap. But are engineers ready to make the leap and reap the rewards? Consumption of technology continues to grow faster than we can harness it, and the industry needs to ready itself to embrace and exploit emerging technologies. New…
HOW AMBITIOUS IS AMBITIOUS? Not content with meeting minimum European Union (EU) requirements for cutting carbon, Germany wants to do the most it can. By 2050 it plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 95% against 1990 levels. In comparison, the UK has pledged just 80% cuts in the same…
AROUND THE ROCKS Shark gun? Check. Typhoon shelter? Check. Scuba gear? Check. Ravings of a madman? No, just the checklist for anyone heading out to work on France’s latest grand projet. Grand it most definitely is. The projet in question is to create France’s longest viaduct – indeed one of the world’s longest segmentally-launched…
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