Yearly Archives: 2014

Waste not, want not, thanks to Volvo

A fleet of Volvo wheel loaders and excavators are helping Zimmermann Recycling & Transport sort and recycle 200,000 tonnes of waste every year. Germany has been at the forefront of the recycling movement and still leads the way when it comes to collecting, sorting and finding new revenue generating uses …

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Earthquake (Seismic) provisions in Bangladesh Building codes

Geologists put Bangladesh in moderate earthquake prone zone. Each year this country experiences thousands of mild to moderate earthquake. Thanks to heaven that the latest severe earthquake happened about a century ago. The great Bengali-Assam earthquake, struck in 1897, almost vanquished the entire Bengal and Assam region. Scientists have alerted …

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Melbourne: Garden City: Part 3 – Public Transport Facilities

Despite the fact that Melbourne has a very high dependency on cars for transport, particularly in the outer suburban areas, with a total of 3.6 million private vehicles using 22,320 km (13,870 miles) of road, and one of the highest lengths of road per capita in the world, the city has an increasingly …

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