DRAKA ACHIEVES SAFETY MILESTONE
DRAKA ACHIEVES SAFETY MILESTONE
The North Carolina operations of Draka Elevator Products, an integrated business of Prysmian Group, surpassed one million hr. worked without a lost-time accident in April. The milestone was reached in February for all of Draka's North American operations. The achievement represents the work of more than 300 employees, each of whom was honored with a steak lunch, commemorative T-shirt and letter of thanks. The last occurrence of a lost-time accident was recorded more than two years ago.
MoSS SET FOR DECEMBER IN SPAIN
The Seventh Symposium on Mechanics of Slender Structures (MoSS) will take place on December 14-15 in Mérida, Spain. The symposium will bring together experts from various fields and is aimed at improving the understanding of structural and thermomechanical properties and the behavior of slender structures. The methods for the suppression of adverse dynamic responses of ropes, cables, tethers, chains, yarns and fibers will be addressed in technical papers covering a wide range of subjects. Some of the papers will be published in the open-access peer-reviewed journal Transportation Systems in Buildings, edited and managed jointly by the University of Northampton and event supporter Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Lifts Group.
THE SAX TO JOIN ROTTERDAM’S “MANHATTAN ON THE MAAS”
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has won a design competition for The Sax, a structure consisting of a 51-story, 150-m-tall tower linked by skybridge to a 70-m-tall tower, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, World Architecture News reports. Containing approximately 450 apartments, a hotel, a wellness center and commercial facilities within 82,000 m2, the structure will further add to Rotterdam's "Manhattan on the Maas" skyline overlooking the Rhine River distributary. Developers BPD Bouwfonds Property Development, Ontwikkeling B.V. and SYNCHROON Ontwikkelaars, in conjunction with the municipality of Rotterdam, are behind the project.
