IRF's 2nd International Conference on Roads and Environment reveals how to make roads greener, cleaner and healthier, and follows through with action recommendations IRF's Conference in Geneva on 10-11 November, 2008 put three issues in sharp focus: innovative materials to save energy and other resources, inspiring solutions for water management; an integrated approach to noise and air pollution; and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions monitoring, accounting and offsetting. Some 140 delegates from 36 countries l
As part of the company’s enterprise strategy to support customers during the energy transition to a lower-carbon future, Caterpillar is developing 48V, 300V, and 600V batteries for off-highway use.
The FeRRM13 event is now becoming repackaged as FIRM13 and will showcase research on multi modal transport infrastructure. This key infrastructure research meeting will be held from 4th-6th June 2013 in Brussels. With the theme of "Advanced and Innovative Construction and Maintenance", the conference FIRM13 will feature updates on the coming Infravation 2014 project and other key targets for FEHRL projects. The latest progress on Forever Open Road programme and FORx4 initiative on transport infrastructure w
Interview with Dr Essam Radwan, chairman of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida and vice-chair of the 17th IRF World Meeting Scientific & Technical Committee The economic impacts of road transport are undeniable, yet notoriously hard to quantify. The central theme of the IRF World Meeting “Delivering Global Prosperity” has key resonance as Dr Radwan explained, “Today’s world is a mesh of tightly integrated economies, so it’s no surprise that the
