Sentences with phrase «building giant projects»
Mr. Najib has rejected these criticisms, saying Malaysia is merely taking a page from Dubai's playbook by building giant projects to attract outside investors.
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But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.
The auto giant on Monday unveiled details about Project BLAID, a wearable device designed to help guide visually impaired people through indoor spaces, such as office buildings and shopping malls.
The batteries are being built by an arm of power giant AES, called AES Energy Storage, and the company has been building such projects for close to a decade.
The provision was in the governor's budget proposal, and he has argued that he needs more oversight of out - of - control giant building projects that often take years to complete.
It's possible that this money will be tapped to cover Cuomo's plans for capital projects, like $ 500 million proposed for Western New York or $ 53 million to start building a giant network of trails.
One of Reclaim's most visible projects is building a giant, searchable database of government spending.
1968: GE Quadruped Transporter The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracted General Electric in 1968 to build the Quadruped Transporter, known as the Walking Truck or the Giant Elephant.
The South African chemical and oil giant Sasol wanted a permit to build the first U.S. facility that converts natural gas into diesel fuel — the largest industrial project in the state's history.
Collaborators secure more than $ 500 million for the historic project to build the Giant Magellan Telescope, with seven of its mirrors produced at the UA.
With former Carnegie postdoc Rebecca Bernstein, now project scientist for the Giant Magellan Telescope, he built the high - resolution echelle spectrograph for the 6.5 - meter (21.3 - feet) Magellan telescopes, and he worked on the Magellan echellette spectrograph and the Magellan Planet Finder Spectrograph.
«Our flight plan around Ceres will be choreographed to be very similar to the strategy that we successfully used around Vesta,» said Bob Mase, Dawn's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «This approach will build on that and enable scientists to make direct comparisons between these two giants of the asteroid belt.»
Right now, the project is building up to be something of a visual spectacle, and if it manages to successfully blend the two opposing sides of the story then I Kill Giants could be an adaptation that lasts long in the memory.
These CHOICE students built a giant Jenga game as one of their projects.
The concept has transformed Wynwood's warehouse buildings into giant canvases for acollective street art project.
The internet giant Google has submitted plans for a «landscraper» for its London headquarters.Construction on the project is on course to begin in 2018 The King's Cross building which is as long as the Shard is wide is designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studios, the team behind TfL's New Bus for London and the 2012 Olympic Cauldron.
But Norwegian energy giant Statoil is about to start building a floating wind project in the North Sea, and the University of Maine has successfully tested a one - eighth scale prototype.
Canadian solar giant SkyPower Global and International Gulf Development (IGD) have signed a major agreement with the government of Egypt to develop 3 GW of utility - scale solar PV projects to be built over the next four years.
In November, German technology giant Siemens Corp. and the utility giant RWE said they would jointly build the IT backbone of a mass - market virtual power plant that will coordinate hundreds of megawatts» worth of distributed energy projects such as wind and solar farms.
Now China's wind giant Sinovel has signed an agreement to supply turbines to build 600 MW of wind projects in Turkey, in what could be the company's largest overseas deal to date.
Local activists are making desperate stands to stop new fossil fuel projects, while the giant energy companies are making equally desperate attempts to build while they still can.
One of their projects, now under construction, is a giant waste - to - energy (the modern cleaner sounding name for a garbage incinerator) facility in Copenhagen that has a park and ski run on the roof, (lots more on TreeHugger here) and was designed to have a big smoke ring puff up every time the building released a tonne of carbon dioxide.
In 2009, Solar Millennium created Solar Trust of America as a joint venture with German industrial giant Ferrostaal to build solar thermal power project in the American Southwest.
Google on Monday pushed Android 5.0 Lollipop source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and while that alone might be interesting news for Android fans and developers, it doesn't mean you should get too excited just yet, as the Search giant is yet to roll out the first Lollipop builds for supported Nexus devices.
The software giant announced during its I / O developer conference today (May 17) that it's building VPS into its Project Tango efforts, which incorporates augmented reality features into mobile devices without the need for add - on headsets.
This spring, the project — specifically the 2012 sale of 94 of those acres to Bayer Healthcare, and Vision / Rubenstein's subsequent launch of the pharmaceutical giant's new, build - to - suit 675,000 - sq.
An online gambling site has unveiled a crazy plan to give a tasty makeover one of London's most iconic buildings by wrapping it in a special film and projecting an image of a giant pickle onto it