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Insights 01/08/18

China's Modern Silk Road and the machinery that's building it

Back in 2013, China’s President Xi Jinping presented the Belt and Road Initiative. It set out to connect 65% of the world’s population to China by creating a network of sea routes and land links. Costing an estimated three trillion...

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Insights 23/07/18

50MW Solar PV farm given the green light in Elgin, Scotland

Elgin Energy has received planning permission for a 50MW solar PV project at Milltown Airfield near Elgin in Moray, in the north east of Scotland. This is the largest consented solar PV project in Scotland to date. Projects of...

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Insights 20/07/18

Climate change highlights the difference between water resistant and waterproof cables

Water resistant versus waterproof: it's a nuance normally considered when talking about clothing or even your mobile phone and camera kit, but as a result of climate change and rising sea levels it's also now a consideration for...

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Insights 18/07/18

UK rail timetable chaos reflects growth and dependence on commuter trains

If you are one of the many Brits who use the train to get to work then you are unlikely to have escaped the ongoing rail travel problems entirely and for once it's not the fault of the ageing infrastructure, an issue with signalling...

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Insights 10/07/18

Seismic Monitoring from Subsea Cables

We’ve long known that there’s more to cables than simply transmitting power or data from point to point, but the latest research from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), is proposing using subsea fibre-optic cables as earthquake...

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Insights 26/06/18

UK Parliament votes for third runway expansion of Heathrow Airport

On 25 June the UK Parliament voted by 415 votes to 119 to give the go-ahead to construction of a third runway at Heathrow airport near London. The expansion of Heathrow will be one of the biggest construction projects in Europe....

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