PSA Tuas Port Maintenance Base consists of 8 buildings that serve various aspects of maintaining the port facilities. One of them is a 6-storey Administrative Building, which is the first major building to be completed in Tuas Port. It has been awarded the Green Mark Award (Platinum) under the Super Low Energy Building (SLEB) category by Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA),...
Pultrusion is a continuous process in which endless fibres are impregnated with a thermoplastic matrix material and drawn through a contouring tool. We currently use glass fibres surrounded by polyamide 6. Expansion to other thermoplastics is currently under development.
Raffles City Chongqing comprises of eight towers, with six southern towers rising to 250m and two northern towers to 350m. Five towers are dedicated for residential use, including one of the northern towers, making it the tallest residential building in China. The project yields a total GFA exceeding 1,127,000m².
Stretching across four of the development's eight towers is a 300m long...
High demands are placed on components in the railway sector. Here, as in other transport industries, the aim of achieving increased efficiency must be balanced with the priorities of mechanical functionality, aesthetic requirements and sector-specific safety standards.
Plastic profiles can help to make rail transport more efficient: reducing the overall weight of a train reduces the amount of...
Canada's first LEED Gold Certified office building, the RBC Centre rises to 41-stories from a 10-story podium, the building features flexible, open-plan floorplates of 24,000 square feet. The development achieved LEED Gold status for the project's environmental sustainability and ability to produce an estimated 50% energy savings relative to buildings built to the Canadian National Energy...
