The exhibition"Post-Oil City:The History of the City's Future"presents a host of innovative city planning projects in Asia,Africa,and the Americas. The exhibition has been produced by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations and ...
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Glass for Europe seized the opportunity of the recent Commission consultation on the EU 2020 Flagship on industrial policy to increase its involvement on industrial policy issues. The aim of this consultation is to prepare the mid-term ...
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Small LED lighting producers in China are banding together to take on the industry`s multinational giants in the West The invention of incandescent lamps by American inventor Thomas Edison more than a century ago not only marked the ...
Department of Energy & Climate Change CIO Jennifer Rigby has said that e-procurement and cloud will drive the government's green IT strategy. Rigby is also chair of the government's green ICT delivery unit (GDU), a cross-departmental, ...
The government has announced that domestic lighting will not be included in the scope of its flagship energy efficiency scheme, the Green Deal. The announcement came as the Department of Energy and Climate Change DECC published a ...
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One of the reasons the construction codes have held my interest for decades is that they always seem to present a new challenge.Just when we start to figure something out—whether it be compliance with the Americans with Disabilities ...
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Phased ban on the sale of incandescent lightbulbs is completed following EU directive to reduce energy use of lighting. Incandescent lightbulbs have been phased out in Europe from September 2009 and September 2012. After ...
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Several lighting manufacturers and retailers are reported to be getting around the phase out of the incandescent lamp by marketing industrial lamps as suitable for domestic use. With the ban on the production of all of the remaining types ...
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The Government has asked the public about smart meters, and found that it is generally positive, but needs help in understanding the subject. For example, the survey indicates that half of energy bill-payers living in Great Britain had ...
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A US-based gas and chemical group is to create what it calls the world’s largest energy-from-waste facility on Teesside. Air Products, which has its headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is to commence work on building the plant in ...
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South African CIGS spin-off PTIP orders €7m of equipment from partner Singulus Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany, which makes production equipment for the Optical Disc and Solar sectors, says that Photovoltaic ...
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With utilities and facility operators under growing pressure to reduce their energy costs, a new report out on the Water-Energy Simulator (WESim) might just be the thing they are looking for. Published by the Water Reuse Association, the ...
The government reduced its IT spend by £249m in 2011/12, with savings of £104m coming from its move to digital services and contract renegotiations, and £145m from its moratorium on contracts above £5m. The ...
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The Department for Energy and Climate Change has agreed to make a £7 million loan to the Green Deal Finance Company (TGFDC) so the organisation can provide low cost finance in early 2013. Green Deal providers will be able to access ...
Climate change minister Greg Barker The Department for Energy and Climate Change has agreed to make a 7 million Euros loan to the Green Deal Finance Company(TGFDC)so the organisation can provide low cost finance in early 2013. ...
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