Just in time for Bike to Work Week to cycle across the U.S., Carlton Reid, author of Roads Were Not Built For Cars, will dissect the inseparable history of bicycles and roads as we know them, and how understanding this history can bring about greater tolerance and multi-purpose use of modern roads. Joining Reid are Heather Boyer, Executive Editor of Built Environment at Island Press, Martha Roskowski, VP of Local Innovation at PeopleForBikes,...

Australia is poised to become the world’s largest exporter of LNG post 2016. LNG discoveries, CSG extraction and shale gas are all contributing to an explosion within Australia’s gas sector. Fuelled by massive demand for gas from Asia, Australia is leading the world in CSG to LNG plants. The three plants on Curtis island are the world’s first CSG to LNG plants and their commercial success is driving similar facilities in Amer...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) announces that its e-Training Core Course, Federal On-Site Renewable Power Purchase Agreements, has been revised and updated. This refreshed eTraining course provides Federal energy and facility managers and contracting officers with up-to-date knowledge and best practices for developing an on-site renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) on a Federal site, and inclu...

Satellite services are widely used by the commercial sector and especially so for the Oil & Gas Industries. Reliance on detecting minute signals in a fog of radio frequency "noise" interference, either unintended or deliberate, is a concern to maintaining assured and reliable communications links to all. This Masterclass describes the technology and tools used to mitigate interference through commercial sector initiatives and explore how i...

The oil and gas industry's needs for field communications services have increased significantly over the last 10 years. Complex operations and data requirements, coupled with highly collaborative work processes, often between multiple onshore and offshore locations, are increasingly reliant on robust telecommunications. This event will tackle the challenges the oil and gas sector faces in some of the most dangerous, harsh, and remote environme...

Through the efforts of several national civil engineering associations and the Harvard School of Design, the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) formed to advance the development and practice of a web-based tool for measuring and encouraging sustainability in civil infrastructure projects of all kinds, other than habitable buildings. " Envision™" is now an in-depth guidance and rating system used to assess and improve the sust...

In an era of severe weather, unprecedented physical threats and unrelenting cyber incursions, increased pressure and focus on the resilience of the US power grid has become the norm. US utilities face a web of state and federal compliance frameworks, public pressure on everything from rate spikes to terrorist threats to emergency preparedness, and a critical need to replace aging infrastructure while ensuring a robust, resilient and secure gri...

Natural disasters, epidemics, industrial action, the rise of political and sovereign risk and other unforseen events can strike anywhere at any time with little or no warning. Recovering from one can be stressful, expensive and time consuming, particularly when no plans have been made to deal with such possibilities. In a period of increased volatility and uncertainty in the global environment, the speed of business change makes the need for a...

Foreign-owned firms are one of the fastest growing segments of Fairfax County’s business community. The County is home to more than 400 companies from more than 40 nations, more than any other jurisdiction in the Washington area (Fairfax County Economic Development Authority).Join the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce to learn why Fairfax County continues to attract international businesses. Gain perspectives from foreign- and locally-o...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will present an introduction into its unique research-based capabilities across a wide spectrum of renewable energy and energy efficiency focus areas. NREL’s analysis informs various stakeholders on technological, environmental, policy and economic decisions as energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies advance from concept to commercial application to market penetration. With objec...