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Bentley Systems Announces Finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2019 Awards Program

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced on...

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10th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE 10): Call for Abstracts

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts for papers up to 300 words, which should include the title of the article, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), postal and electronic addre...

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Flooded tunnel blocked a railway in Scotland

Extreme weather conditions in Scotland flooded a 340-meter tunnel blocking a major railway network near Edinburgh. The Winchburgh Tunnel is located west of Scotland's capital. The tunnel was flooded...

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Amazon plans for two brand-new renewable energy projects in Ireland and in the U.S.

On August 1, 2019, Amazon announced a plan for two new renewable energy projects in Ireland and in Virginia. The initiative follows a dispute between the company's employees and its stakeholders. At...

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Huge asteroid will pass and narrowly miss Earth

A massive asteroid will soon pass near Earth but, fortunately, without causing a collision. The 2006 QQ23 asteroid with a diameter of 570 meters, will approach Earth on August 10, according to NASA....

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Digital strategy for a landslide disaster protection project in West Java, Indonesia

A catastrophic landslide affected the road between Bogor and Cianjur two months before the annual Indonesian Homecoming Festival in West Java. Τhe already terrible traffic situation on West Java’s m...

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Cliff collapse in Californian beach: 3 women dead

Three women were killed after a sandstone bluff collapsed at Encinitas beach, located north of San Diego. The tragic incident occurred at about 3 pm on Friday, August 2, 2019. A 3-meter wide sandston...

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Potential dam collapse in U.K.: Authorities evacuated an entire town

Authorities have evacuated an entire town in Derbyshire, U.K., after a reservoir's dam suffered critical damage on August 1, 2019. The earth dam partially collapsed after intense rainfall struck Nort...

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Engineering new materials to replace diamonds for drilling

Diamond drilling was a break-through approach mostly used in mining industry to exploit deposits that would otherwise remain inaccessible. It also enabled the recovery of cores to examine the undergr...

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Rock slide blocks salmon path in Fraser River

A rock slide has blocked a large part of Fraser River and prevents salmons from swimming upstream. The rock slide that occurred in a remote area west of Clinton, located in British Columbia, Canada o...

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