Newark Dyke Bridge is a 77m long, 11.25m wide, steel bowstring arch Railway Bridge designed for the next generation of 225 kph trains and, as such, is the first of its kind in Britain. LUSAS Bridge analysis software was used by Cass Hayward & Partners to carry out detailed dynamic...
The Newark Dyke rail bridge reconstruction demanded a high profile solution at a strategic river crossing on the East Coast Main Line. Railtrack demanded an aesthetically pleasing solution whilst specifying new high speed design criteria with demanding safety requirements so as not to disturb the live railway. Steel was chosen...
Productivity and Quality (P&Q) programme adopted Six Sigma as a systematic approach to increase customer satisfaction and improve financial performance. Several key initiatives that contributed most to the firm-wide programme's success included are creating economies of scale through Shared Service Centres in Asia, London, and the Americas (Newark, Delaware), re-engineering...
I know, we've heard this one before. Once again, the DOT has issued a few changes to try and help reduce delays and generally make traveling better. Most of them are snoozers - not anything new or exciting but rather firming up of old proposals. But there...
One of the problems with most vaccine manufacturing processes is that they are animal based, posing contamination issues. Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.) is working with Fraunhofer USA's Center for Molecular Biotechnology (Newark, Del.) on a new manufacturing route where vaccine protein production will take place on the leaves of...
Caffe Gelato is open every day serving lunch, dinner and the Caffe's specialty, homemade Italian ice cream known as gelato. Ryan German, a lifelong resident and graduate of the local university, fell in love with this concoction during a trip abroad and knew its introduction on Main Street would differentiate...
PARIS (Reuters UK) - British Airways BAY has agreed to buy small French business airline l'Avion for 68 million euros (52 million pounds) and it will become part of its new OpenSkies unit, they said in a joint statement on Wednesday. OpenSkies started on June 19...
The Vytorin scandal just got serious. Well, heck, it was already serious. Make this really serious: Investigation and Inquiries. Through the date of filing this 10-Q, Schering-Plough, the joint venture and/or its ...
