New mobile factory produces mortarless bricks from rubble
The mobile factory can produce up to 8,000 bricks per day, enough to build a school or ten small houses per week.
Ruth Arteaga
I am a civil engineer and I work in the writing area. I have a deep passion for civil works. I constantly seek to update myself on new engineering technologies to integrate them into my work, since my main interest is exploring how innovations in the industrial sector can improve and transform the world.
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Discovery: Mercury has a 15-kilometer-thick diamond layer
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in the solar system.
Second life solar plant opens in Texas with reused panels
The plant uses solar panels that were previously part of Ørsted and Sunrun installations.
Construction of Hermes low power demonstration reactor begins
Hermes is the first Generation IV reactor approved in the United States in more than 50 years and the first non-light water reactor to be licensed in the country.
Woodside welcomed Scarlet Ibis vessel to its worldwide fleet
The Woodside Scarlet Ibis is more than 292 meters long and can transport approximately 174,000 cubic meters of LNG.
Plans to drill world’s deepest offshore oil and gas well offshore
The depth of the Komodo-1 well will be equivalent to the height of 10 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other.
Rana Diving completed pipeline installation with CDM technology
The operation was carried out without the need for a specialized construction vessel, optimizing resources and reducing costs.
Orca-class ship launched at Wuhu shipyard
The Orca-class MV Elise sets new efficiency standards by significantly reducing emissions and fuel consumption in heavy-lift transport.
Muriel D II vessel sanctioned for pollution hazard in British Columbia
The Muriel D II was moored to a salmon enrichment net, a structure that was not designed to support its weight, increasing the risk of contamination.
U.S. purchases millions of barrels for Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The SPR currently contains about 374.4 million barrels, the highest level since late 2022, but still below the typical 600 to 700 million barrel range of the last decade.
Natura and Texas Produced Water consortium to implement LF-MSR for energy development
The partnership between Natura and TPWC marks a breakthrough in the search for sustainable energy and water solutions for Texas.
New device created to extract water from the atmosphere
The device can generate up to 5 liters of water per day per kilogram of adsorbent material, using a surface area equivalent to two soccer fields per gram of material.