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Water Management Demonstration Sites Using SuDS, Valencia, Spain

12 MARCH 2012

Water management demonstration sites using SuDS are under construction in the Valencia Region of Spain

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Harnessing Ireland's Energy

12 MARCH 2012

ICE President Richard Coackley and his wife Ella arrived in Dublin for a two day visit in January and to spread the word of his Presidential Address "Harnessing Energy." They were delighted to face an energy packed schedule.

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Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), Germany

12 MARCH 2012

The former DDR airport at Berlin Schönefeld is being expanded to the south to become Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), the new unified airport for the German capital. The historic city airport of Tempelhof has already been closed to traffic and Berlin's third airport, Tegel, is also set to close when operations commence on the 3rd June 2012. The two Berlin airports handled a total of 22.3 million passengers in 2011.

Construction of a Continuous Composite Bridge of Egnatia Odos Motorway, Greece

12 MARCH 2012

This article is about the T10 Bridge in section 2.4 (Arahthos-Peristeri) located near the village Peristeri in Epirus, as part of the Egnatia Motorway project.

Luxembourg Lecture: 'The Environmental Assessment of Buildings through BREEAM'

12 MARCH 2012

The ICE Luxembourg Association held a meeting on 24th November 2011 at which Jean-Louis Hubermont, principal of the specialist consulting firm Building for the Future, presented the current state of environmental assessment of buildings in Europe with particular reference to the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).

Light weight bridge concept for HSR, Sweden

12 MARCH 2012

Are there any incentives to move towards lighter bridge structures? Is it possible?

Lincs OWF Foundation Installation Passes Midway Point, Denmark

12 MARCH 2012

By the end of October 2011, Danish contractor MT Højgaard had installed approximately half of the 75 monopile foundations for the Lincs Offshore Wind Farm, which is located off the coast of Lincolnshire in England. The remaining foundations are to be installed between now and the first half of 2012.

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ICE supports 1st European Engineers' Day

12 MARCH 2012

The 1st European Engineers' Day was held on 8th December 2011 in Brussels.

Research Project for Offshore Wind Turbines, Cuxhaven, Germany

12 MARCH 2012

Research Project for the Geotechnical Behaviour of Cyclically Loaded Gravity Base Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines, Cuxhaven, Germany

Structural Analysis and design of Smart City Building O2/O3, Malta

12 MARCH 2012

The building forms part of the Smart City Project in Malta's southern village of Mtarfa and consist of various office and hospitality buildings and are meant to serve as a corporate IT village. The building comprises a 12,000 square metres and is nine storey's in height in total. Retail spaces are to be provided within the bottom floors and office space at every other level.

Construction of a Solar Thermal Plant, Orellana la Vieja, Spain

12 MARCH 2012

Renewable energy has developed very fast in Spain in the last few years thanks to favorable legislation based on economic benefits. Solar thermal technology is found among these clean technologies.

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Technical Notes Dwelling on Structural Hand Methods for Deflection, Vibration & Rotation

12 MARCH 2012

The Structural Engineer journal in 2011 published 2 technical notes delving into hand calculation methods to analysis the above criteria on simple buildings.

Zlota 44, Warsaw, Poland

12 MARCH 2012

The most recognizable building in downtown Warsaw, the Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki), is due to soon face competition as work is underway on Zlota 44 – the second-tallest, all-residential high rise in Europe, after the Triumph Palace in Moscow.

Offshore Cyprus Hydrocarbon Exploration Activities

21 APRIL 2011

On Wednesday 16 February 2011 over 50 people attended a lecture in Nicosia on the offshore exploration of hydrocarbon, by Solon Kasinis, Director of the Energy Service of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Below is a summary of his lecture.

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Young Civil Engineer Final Thesis Award, Hungary

26 JANUARY 2011

Zsófia Varga wins ICE Hungary's first Young Civil Engineer Final Thesis Award.

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