?Value engineering? to save $109G on sewer project (Standard Speaker) By TOM RAGAN Staff Writer Some creative engineering saved the Hazle Township Municipal Authority more than $100,000 on the Southside Area Sewer Project....more...POSCO Eng invited pitches for IPO mandate-sources (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News) SEOUL, Nov 12 - POSCO Engineering & Construction, a unit of South Korean steel maker POSCO , is mulling a 2008 initial public offering in Seoul that is expected to value the firm at about $5.5 billion, two sources said on Monday....more... Funding boost for timber processing breakthrough (Scoop.co.nz) A breakthrough development by Wood Engineering Technology Limited ? enabling low value logs to be turned into high grade lumber ? is taking a big step closer to full production with the backing of investment from the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology....more... Revolution looming in lumber industry (The New Zealand Herald) Wood Engineering Technology aims to turn the lumber industry on its head with a process that can turn low-value pallet wood into high-value structural timber....more... Sustaining exploration: communications, relevance, and value (The Space Review) The nature of NASA?s communication efforts?specifically, what should be communicated, to whom, and how?has received considerable attention in the pages of The Space Review over the past two years (see ?NASA?s strategic communications problem? , March 20, 2006; ?The medium and the message? , January 2, 2007; and ?NASA?s new outreach plan? . July 2, 2007). Each of these essays and articles has had ......more... Ernest Gomez | Counterpoint: Diversity programs have value (Daily Pennsylvanian) "Everyone's a little bit racist," according to a song from the Broadway musical Avenue Q. The recently terminated Whole New World diversity training program at the University of Delaware told 7,000 dorm residents otherwise....more... Tech Venue (Chicago Sun-Times) A weekly heads-up from TechVenue.com about upcoming business-Technology events. Programs are rated on 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being tops, for value, style and networking....more... © Oxford Business Group's series of on-line and print publications have become renown as the leading source of ... (Oxford Business Group) Despite a slowdown in lending in September, Bulgarian banks have so far enjoyed a profitable year. The Sharjah Investment Centre (SIC) came one step closer to fruition last week when an engineering company was awarded the contract to carry out the infrastructure work at the development's site....more... 12-11-2007: Salcon bags water project in Middle East (The Edge Daily) HAINING: Salcon Bhd, a water engineering company gaining a foothold in the Middle East, has been awarded a water treatment project worth a few hundred million ringgit in that region, said chief operating officer How See Hock....more... |