- Entergy's application could generate a second nuclear reactor
Entergy Corp. has applied with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a permit to secure site approval for a possible second reactor at the company's Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station near Port Gibson, Miss. The commission is not expected to respond until 2006. Entergy is not planning to build another reactor ......
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon honors 24 works
David Evans and Associates' rehabilitation of Portland's Broadway Bridge took Project of the Year honors during last night's American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon's Engineering Excellence Awards 2006. Twenty-four projects by 20 firms were honored with awards in the annual design competition, which recognizes ingenuity, innovation and merit in ......
- HDR Engineering acquires Washington firm
HDR Engineering Inc., an architectural-engineering firm headquartered in Seattle, has acquired Economic and Engineering Services Inc., also based in Washington. Under terms of the acquisition, the acquired company will change its name to HDR/EES. Economic and Engineering Services was founded in 1978 and focuses mainly on providing consulting and engineering ......
- Oregon Engineering Projects Honored
Portland— American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon honored 15 projects in Engineering Excellence Awards competition for 2004. Project of the Year went to KPFF Consulting Engineers for the Brewery Block 2 design in Portland's Pearl District. The complex project combined selective demolition, historic renovation, seismic straightening, and new construction ......
- Around the province.
MELFORT The city of Melfort has posted significant growth in building permits over last year. In the first six months of 2002, over 17.4 million in building permits were issued, compared to 2.5 million in 2001. 1 CHRISTOPHER LAKE The new Lakeland Credit Union has opened and recently celebrated its ......
- BladeCenter T system for the telecommunications industry
HEADNOTE This paper describes the IBM eServer(TM) BladeCenter T system, an extension of the BladeCenter platform designed for the specific and rigorous requirements of the telecommunications industry, such as compliance with Telcordia Technologies Network Equipment - Building Standards (NEBS(TM)) specifications. The Telcordia NEBS documents and the analogous documents written for ......
- Plug and play: multimedia system delivers audio and
video via existing twisted pair cabling.
An easy-to-install, low-cost system to deliver audio and video over unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) networks - the first-of-its-kind video/audio distribution system for intra-building use, according to creator AMP Inc., Harrisburg, PA - may offer "obsolescence protection" to communications-sensitive corporate, educational, and healthcare facilities. Unlike other broadband radio frequency (RF) systems that ......