Em comunicado a que o CONSTRUIR teve acesso, os responsáveis da Profabril asseguram que a estratégia procura responder aos “exigentes requisitos da Digitalização (Manutenção 4.0) e da Gestão do Risco”.

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THE FRANTIC PHONE calls to the Community Water Center began in the summer of 2014. In the 7,000-strong unincorporated community of East Porterville, nestled against California's Sierra Nevada mountains, homeowners' wells were failing amid a historic drought. Folks were hauling water from their workplaces or from agricultural wells. Parents were sending their kids to shower at the local high school. Residents with still-functional wells were snaking hoses over fences to nourish their neighbors.

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How can an effective transition to a more sustainable, affordable, secure and inclusive energy system be enabled?

Heat, light and mobility are the essential building blocks of human progress. The global energy system of the future will be influenced by urbanization, shifts in energy demand growth from developed to less-developed countries, increased use of natural gas and renewables, the declining cost of renewable technologies, and innovations such as digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence.

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From the way we power and heat our homes to the fuel we use in our vehicles, the energy sources on which we depend release harmful carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 

Given the scale of the decarbonisation challenge, we need to use many technological solutions in tandem. But one element has so far been forgotten: hydrogen.

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Decorreu passados dias 18 e 19 de Maio a World Shopper Conference Iberian 2018, onde pela primeira vez em Portugal foi possível experimentar um veículo elétrico de nível 5, o escalão máximo de autonomia de condução

Much has already been achieved in our fight against climate change, both in mitigation and adaptation. Awareness, policy, business, technology and innovation are all improving.

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A educação será o primeiro passo no plano Smart City do município de Estocolmo, que anunciou recentemente uma parceria com a Fujitsu no sentido co-criar um ambiente TI para viabilizar a sua ambição de se tornar a cidade mais inteligente do mundo

Spring construction season is underway, and many tons of concrete will be used in the coming months. Unfortunately, concrete is a brittle material: Placed under stress, it cannot bend very far before it fractures. Some pavements that are being poured now will crack within a few years and require expensive repairs. New concrete will be mixed, and the cycle will start again.

During the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) Spring Meeting, held in Orlando, Florida in April, I was honored to sit on a panel discussion with Paul Durand from ExxonMobil and Sanjeev Kapur from Apex PetroConsultants.

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“Transportation engineers need to rethink how we do our performance metrics,” said Davis, who believes a challenge in transportation planning is the way to reclaim space to move more people.

Davis also explores the idea of moving people versus moving cars, the introduction of automated vehicles, and how the sharing economy will affect the transportation industry.

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In any era, the hard work of environmental progress requires the best available tools. Today those tools include technological innovations that are giving corporations and NGOs alike new capabilities and supercharging the partnerships between them. Sensors, data analytics, machine learning and blockchain are just some of the breakthroughs driving business growth as well as environmental stewardship.

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Hong Kong has one of the worst housing crises in the world, with property prices so high that a single parking spot sold for $664,000 last year and all but the wealthiest are stuck renting tiny apartments with an ever-proliferating range of colorful names: micro-flats, nano apartments, coffin apartments, and cage homes.

A cidade das Caldas da Rainha acaba de dar mais um passo importante na sua transformação digital ao implementar a tecnologia LoRa da Cisco para viabilizar a disponibilização de serviços IoT

“If it can pass this test, it can fit all conditions,” said Li Wu, the chairman of Shandong Pavenergy, the company that made the plastic-covered solar panels that carpet the road. If his product fares well, it could have a major impact on the renewable energy sector, and on the driving experience, too.