NOVEMBER 01, 2021, DUBAI:
ENIA Architectes attended the panel discussion on ‘Building Smart, Livable and Sustainable Cities’ at the India Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai.
The session highlighted the importance of building sustainable cities in today’s world. The ‘Urban & Rural Development Week’ also focused on Smart and Sustainable Transportation,
Alternate Real Estate, and Building Smart, Liveable and Sustainable Cities. It discussed new opportunities emerging from alternate real estate sectors, data centres, warehousing, and logistics.
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AIA Life Designers participated in the Conference organized by Business France and AFEX “The French approach to the Sustainable & Desirable City” on November 3, as part of the economic program of France pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.
The 12 architecture agencies participants focused on “Structuring elements of the city”, “The challenges of tourism”, “The reversible city”.
Above this conference, five-day business meeting tour was organized in Riyadh, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi to present France’s next generation of architects in the...
SEGAP, a joint venture between Egis and private equity fund manager AIIM, is working alongside air service provider dnata and Emirates Leisure Retail (ELR) on a new 10-year contract for the government of Zanzibar to improve air transport provision and support tourism growth.
The government of Zanzibar wants to position the archipelago as a world leading tourism destination. With pristine waters, sandy beaches, secluded luxury hotels and a UNESCO World Heritage town centre, Zanzibar has everything to attract visitors. The new contract aims to improve airport performance across all areas,...
IDEMIA has been selected by Aena, the leading airport operator for passenger traffic management, to be part of an innovative passenger facilitation pilot at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport.
The pilot started on December 15 with biometric technology in use on the Vueling flights for Malaga. Passengers have pre-approved access thanks to the biometric boarding facility. They can board the plane earlier and without presenting any documentation. They only need to show their face.
The biometric identification system based on facial recognition is the most convenient, hygienic, and...
Airbus has signed a trilateral agreement with Thales and Diehl Aerospace for the joint development of the flight control computers of CityAirbus NextGen. The central flight control system of CityAirbus NextGen, the electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL) being developed by Airbus, will combine extraordinary computing power with lightweight design and highest safety standards.
Diehl and Thales are joining Airbus in investing into the emerging eVTOL market. Both partners are developing their own system that will be integrated into a dissimilar architecture to comply with the...
DSNA provides air navigation services for nine French mainland regional and several overseas centres in charge of ATC approach and tower control. The VCS system will be deployed to 14 sites located in metropolitan France (including Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris Orly, Strasbourg among others) and some French oversea territories. Bordeaux will be the first centre to be equipped.
French air traffic control to benefit from FREQUENTIS and CS GROUP voice communication systems in 20-year replacement program
French Air Navigation Service Provider, DSNA, awarded Frequentis and CS GROUP...
Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority has awarded Thales a contract to support the modernisation of the Greek civil aviation Navigation Aids infrastructure. This turnkey contract includes the supply of 10 Doppler VHF Omnidirectional Range (DVOR), 13 Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and 6 Instrument Landing systems (ILS). It also comprises of the installation of the instruments on 18 different sites across the country, from remote mountain peaks, to major hubs such as the Athens International Airport.
The Navigation Surveillance capabilities will ensure all-weather, en-route navigation and...
Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced that it has been recognized by Microsoft as the company’s 2021 Sustainability Changemaker Partner of the Year Award winner. The award recognizes the impact Schneider has had helping its customers set and achieve decarbonization goals using its flagship EcoStruxure™ software solutions, which are underpinned by Microsoft technologies.
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IDEMIA, the leader of Augmented Identity announced today a global partnership with Bosch Building Technologies, a global leader in the security market, to tap the fast-growing biometric access control market. According to market analysts1, this market at $1bn in 2021, will grow to $1.4 by 2024, twice the growth of traditional access control systems.
This booming market comes from the fact that a growing number of companies understand that for their security, they cannot rely anymore only on simple ID badges, that can be cloned (for older technologies still used by 44% of companies2)...
Easy, reliable, high-quality and cost-effective testing for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), in compliance with local regulatory requirements, is crucial to enabling millions of passengers to complete their journeys in comfort and safety. Eurofins has rapidly developed a broad network of around 500 testing centres across Europe and intends to have established around 1,000 testing centres by early July.
Eurofins’ network of testing centres covers major travelling hubs and provides testing accessibility in a broad variety of locations such as supermarkets, business parks and residential areas,...