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UCLA | February 27, 2020

UCLA engineers have developed minuscule warehouse logistics robots that could help expedite and automate medical diagnostic technologies and other applications that move and manipulate tiny drops of fluid. The study was published in Science Robotics. The robots are disc-shaped magnets about 2 millimeters in diameter, designed to work together to move and manipulate droplets of blood or other fluids, with precision. For example, the robots can cleave one large droplet of fluid into smaller drops ...

GlobeSt | February 14, 2020

High construction costs and market saturation all point to a recession within the next year as developers and other industry players travel back and forth to the drawing board to figure out when a slowdown of economic activity will happen and how to best prepare, Julian Anderson, president of Rider Levett Bucknall North America, a independent organization in cost management, quantity surveying, project management and advisory services, tells Globest.com....

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Linesight | May 02, 2022

Linesight, a global construction consultancy firm, expects prices for construction commodities to remain high and volatile in 2022, despite a predicted stabilization in the market many thought would come to fruition in Q1. Leading up to the end of 2021, many believed the pandemic-related supply chain issues would begin to ease off and allow for a stabilization of the market, but the Russia-Ukraine crisis has deeply affected the situation; both directly, due to the primary producti...

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VINCI | May 31, 2022

VINCI has just signed a contract to upgrade the Femern tunnel with electromechanical installations through its subsidiary Cobra IS. The deal is worth more than DKK 4 billion (€535 million). Over the next six years, it will primarily focus on ventilation, lighting, and safety systems, as well as electromechanical system maintenance in the tunnel's five tubes (two for highway road, two for high-speed rail, and one for service gallery). Cobra IS has suggested ...