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Foundations and carbon capture come together at landmark UK power project

Construction is advancing on NZT Power in Teesside, a 742 MW gas-fired power station designed to become the world's first commercial-scale facility of its type with integrated carbon capture and stora...

USD100bn Louisiana spaceport plan brings industrial-scale launch infrastructure to the Gulf Coast

SpaceX has announced plans for a USD100bn spaceport across 125,000 acres in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, setting out a project that would combine launch pads, propellant production, power generation,...

MIMIC project combines InSAR satellite data with structural models for infrastructure monitoring

The MIMIC project, a Demonstrator project funded by NWO (the Dutch Research Council), is developing an integrated monitoring approach that combines Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) sat...

CFD modelling shows where bridge scour risk really develops

Computational fluid dynamics modelling is being used to improve bridge scour assessment across the rail network, helping engineers identify where erosion risk is actually developing around bridge foun...

UC Berkeley develops hydrodynamic digital twin for Pajaro River flood risk management

UC Berkeley researchers are developing a hydrodynamic digital twin of the Lower Pajaro River Valley as part of the Pajaro Hydro-Twin Project, an initiative aimed at helping residents, policymakers, a...

EU Horizon Europe funds €5 million safe-move project to improve micromobility road safety

The European Union's Horizon Europe programme has awarded €5 million in funding to the SAFE-MOVE project, which aims to improve road safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and micromobility users including...

First-of-its-kind public Nevada data center halted over review concerns

Approval for a planned 167 MW data center near Boulder City, Nevada, has been temporarily halted after a federal appeals board found that the environmental review used to authorize the project was lik...

GBP16m Barbican package highlights complexity of structural retrofit

A GBP16m demolition and structures package is being prepared for the Barbican Renewal Programme in London, placing structural sequencing, temporary works and careful intervention at the centre of the...

GBP800m South Wales civils framework prepares for bidding

Contractors will soon be able to bid for places on a new GBP800m civil engineering framework being established by five Welsh councils, covering construction, maintenance and specialist infrastructu...

ETH Zurich study finds timetable inefficiencies add up to a quarter of European rail travel time

A study conducted by the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich has found that travelers on long-distance train journeys across Europe spend approximately a quarter of their total...

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