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Russia says it will launch Tanzania’s first Earth observation...
South Korea Tests First Indigenous Hypersonic Missile
South Korea conducted its first test-firing of an indigenously...
UAE space economy grows 27.1% to $1.5 billion
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China’s LandSpace Launches 10 Satellites to Advance Orbital Computing and Communications
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geotechnical

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Skill shortages hit home in New Zealand

Skilled engineers are amongst the many workers needed in the Christchurch rebuild and to fill vacancies across New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Herald, the rebuilding of the country’s second-largest city has seen skill shortages skewed significantly towards...

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Amberg Geotechnics: Surveying Solution Minimises Risks and Hazards in Underground Construction

Tunnel surveyors and geotechnical engineers must seek to minimise underground construction risks and hazards, but are also under immense pressure to keep to tight budgets and schedules. Amberg Geotechnics is the ideal software tool for quickly and...

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Tunnelling: From Surveying to Data Management

Tunnelling has gone high-tech. Integrating survey data, monitoring information, data management and collaborative interaction, tunnelling is a shared effort and technologies are increasingly being integrated toward common web-based management systems. As tunnels proceed, machinery wear, alignment, shift...

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

World’s First Colour TonerPearl Wide Format Printer for Maps

The Océ Colorwave600 is the first large format printer ever to utilise the new and unique Océ CrystalPoint technology and it sets new standards in quality, clarity, reliability, productivity and resilience. It is the brilliant system if...

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Gyro-Shot – Gyroscopically-oriented Borehole Survey Tool

The Gyro Shot uses the latest nano-technology to deliver accurate surveys in a surprisingly rugged package. Surveys are run much like with a magnetic multishot tool – the instrument is moved through the borehole and stopped at...

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Changes in Fugro’s Top Management

The Supervisory Board of Fugro N.V. announces that effective 2012 Fugro will be managed in accordance with a board-of-management model. The increased size of the company makes a more collective decision-making process and more delegation of operational tasks...