As communities, states, and countries around the globe continue to address the health crisis created by COVID-19, personal protection equipment (PPE) for medical personnel and first responders remains in high demand. To help address this need in their community, team members from Genie, a Terex brand, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., have been working on a concept that will allow them to produce medical equipment for a local hospital. The effort began with a face shield design developed by Jim Donaldson, Genie Engineering Design Manager, Terex AWP. Donaldson explains: “After watching a video about the types of medical equipment our hospitals…
Author: Kasun Illankoon
No one could have foreseen what the world is going through as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trying to compare our days with any earlier period in history seems senseless, as so many parameters have changed drastically, whether you take the Spanish flu, the great depression, the globalization of the past decades or the financial crisis of 2008/9 as your point of reference. And yet – however terrible the daily news – you may want to know what’s happening in your field of economic activity, if only as some kind of background to the momentous things happening to us…
Ideal Standard has introduced Conca Basins, a part of the Conca Range. Designed in partnership with world renowned Italian designers, Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, the Conca collection takes its inspiration from the vintage 1970 collection of Ideal Standard, combining the classic, old world elegance with the genius of modern manufacturing. The Conca series was originally designed for Ideal Standard by master designer Paolo Tilche in 1972, and it had a profound impact on the culture of design. In their contemporary design interpretation, Ludovica + Roberto Palomba kept the geometries and sensual details of the original design, but brought Ideal Standards’…
Prabhu Ramachandran, CEO at Facilio, tells us how effective strategies and appropriate digital tools will be critical for property management teams to deliver the response required to contain COVID-19: The global response to the COVID-19 crisis can be summed as a race against time requiring strict adherence to protocol. A world reeling under the impact of a highly contagious and potentially lethal virus is reconsidering everything from personal hygiene and casual contact with surfaces, to the minimum safe proximity to maintain with others. With prevention being the only viable response to containing the pandemic, in the absence of an effective…
The National Authority for Tunnels represented via the Arab Contractors has awarded Fugro a geophysical and geotechnical investigation contract for the second phase of the Cairo Monorail megaproject. The megaproject involves the construction of two monorail lines that will create the first public transport links from both Egypt’s as-yet unnamed new administrative capital (NAC) and 6th of October City to the Greater Cairo area. Drawing on their unique expertise and capabilities in land site investigation in Egypt, Fugro plans to deploy up to 15 geotechnical drilling rigs along the 43 km line that will connect 6th of October City to…
Putting customers first, Emirates has updated its COVID-19 travel waiver policies into one simplified approach for rebooking and refunds on tickets issued in all its global markets. Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Chief Commercial Officer said: “The travel and airline industry have complicated rulebooks for how fares, re-bookings or refunds are applied, which also differ depending on market regulation. We understand that explaining and unravelling all of that is confusing and frustrating for customers. The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented for everyone, and we’d like to thank our customers and trade partners for their patience, understanding and support as we worked through this…
Energy and desalinated water provider ACWA Power has signed an agreement with THABAT to build an integrated mobile hospital with a 100 bed capacity, fully resourced with the medical equipment and supplies needed to treat COVID-19 cases – the hospital will provide comprehensive healthcare services and aid in handling the pandemic. The agreement was concluded under the patronage, and in presence of HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Energy; HE Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, Minister of Health; and Mohammad Abunayyan, Chairman of ACWA Power. The signing was executed by Thamer Al Sharhan, representing ACWA Power, and…
GP Global has further strengthened its international bunkering network with the addition of new delivery infrastructure, supplying the port of Hamburg, Germany. Expanding their geographical supply reach in the ‘North Western’ market, GP Global will be supplying Marpol and IMO 2020 compliant Marine Gasoil, all overseen by GP Global’s Rotterdam office. With a global network of bunker trading offices across London, Geneva, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, and Houston in The Americas, complemented by representatives in Lagos, Dar el Salaam, Nairobi, Delhi and Shanghai, the expansion into supplying Hamburg compliments GP Global’s current portfolio of supply locations as the group continues to…
Saudi Ports Authority (MAWANI) and Saudi Global Ports (SGP) signed a new Build,Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement for the Container Terminals in the King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam over a virtual signing ceremony today. Under the patronage of H.R.H. Prince Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Governor of the Eastern Region, (MAWANI) has signed remotely the largest 30-year BOT Agreement in the Kingdom with (SGP) with investments exceeding SR 7 billion to develop and operate container terminals at King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam. The remote Agreement signing with the participation of H.E. Eng. Saleh Al-Jasser, Minister of Transport and Chairman of…
Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) LLC, a leading district cooling service provider in the region and a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai Investments, has commenced testing its Command Control Centre (CCC), which provides operations and performance data from all its district cooling plants. The company also started testing its unmanned machinery space (UMS) — associated with artificial intelligence SMART Systems — which came in handy due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19. This initiative is part of Emicool ’s plans to apply digital transformation to its operations and the advanced technology is designed to play a role in creating a sustainable…