by Paul Kenney | Jan 22, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Chinese Company 3-D Prints 5-Story Apartment Building SUZHOU, China—Chinese high-tech construction company WinSun has completed a five-story apartment complex and an 11,840 ft2 (1100 m2) villa at the Suzhou Industrial Park. The company’s 3-D printer array stands 20 ft...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
DOE Funds Research Into ‘Air Conditioned’ Clothing ITHACA, N.Y.—the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Cornell University fiber science and engineering researchers a $3 million grant to create new clothes...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
New Solar Installation Rises Every 150 Seconds in U.S. BOSTON—According to new data from GTM Research, the U.S. solar industry completed a project every two-and-a-half minutes in 2014. Those installations were a result of $15 billion in cumulative investments. The...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Drive-By Heat Mapping CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—An MIT spin-off company is bringing technology similar to the cars Google used for its “Street View” to energy-efficiency monitoring. Essess deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that can create heat maps of...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Possible AC Ammonia Leak Causes Evacuation of International Space Station HOUSTON—A suspected toxic leak in the U.S. sector of the International Space Station (ISS) has forced the American astronauts onboard to isolate their module and stay overnight in the Russian...
