Together with the Nemetschek Engineering Group, Scia has recently given the starting shot for the sixth edition of its International User Contest.
Over the years, this User Contest has become a famous event which users look forward to and that gets a lot of credit from the international press.
What are the novelties of this edition?
This sixth edition will be more international than ever and has a wider-ranging scoop this year: the user contest is open to all customers projects that make use of the software programs from the larger Nemetschek Engineering Group, especially Scia, Allplan, Frilo and Glaser. That is also why this contest has a new name: the “Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009″. This year there are also other novelties such as the new contest categories in CAE and CAD, but also the increased prize money.
Have a look at this lagest swimming pool in the world in San Alfonso del Mar in Chile.
Really impressive!
It’s eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water. Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon trounces all other record holders in the category. The San Alfonso pool is 1 km in length.
The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 meters and unprecedented in design and construction methods, are the brainchild of Crystal Lagoons founder, biochemist and Chilean businessman Fernando Fischmann. Equivalent in size to an incredible 6,000 standard domestic pools, details of its technology are to be unveiled for the first time at Cityscape Dubai later this month.
The Belgian prince Filip has presented the « Princess Elisabeth » polar station in Brussels. It is the first scientific structure with "zero emission". The goal of this polar base, which will be moved to the South Pole, is to study the effects of the climate change.
It is a unique enterprise… The polar base, Princess Elisabeth, which has been on exhibition and accessible to the general public in the port station ‘Tour & Taxis’ in Brussels, is a unique construction with regard to durable development.
Indeed, it will be the first station located on the South Pole that works only by renewable energy. The base will be equipped with 8 windmills and solar panels that cover the roof and the exterior walls of the structure; also a water recycling installation is provided. The station will be warmed using a system that combines passive solar heating and cogeneration that is recycling the heat rays that have been emitted by the energetic core, computers, light and even the human presence of the base. Concerning the isolation of the walls, the base avoids any heat loss and maintains the ambient temperature between 18 and 20°C. Moreover, the energetic efficiency of the concept, the energetic control system and the use of energy-saving equipment turns the station into a real "bio"construction prototype.
