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Smart Cities: Key Macroeconomic Trends Revealed
Smart cities’ future infrastructure will rely on the analysis of data relayed by the sensors in buildings, infrastructure, transportation, and power grids, enabling city authorities to make critical decisions in real-time. The foundation will be smart city...
Here’s What to Keep in Mind Before Offering the Job.
Hiring isn’t just about grabbing the best talent, and job hunting isn’t only about landing the gig. Both sides should be considering the best fit to set everyone up for success. After all, even a candidate’s most admirable qualities may be incompatible with how your...
5 Strategies for Building High Trust, High Performing Teams
Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. A few that standout are the value of setting goals and working to achieve them, persevering through failure, and the...
Could Remote Sensing Improve Railway Infrastructure Monitoring?
On the morning of 20 November 2018, a six-carriage commuter train derailed between the towns of Terrassa and Manresa, around 30 miles north of Barcelona. The incident, caused by a landslide, left one person dead and 44 injured. As is sadly often the case, it takes a...
Is 3-D Visualization Software the Future of Urban Planning?
MetroLab Network has partnered with Government Technology to bring its readers a segment called the MetroLab Innovation of the Month Series, which highlights impactful tech, data and innovation projects underway between cities and universities. If you’d like to learn...
Special Report: A ‘Concrete’ Solution to Sustainable Construction
Sustainable is seemingly the buzzword across industries, with the concept having spilt over onto the UAE’s construction industry as well. Dubai was awarded the ‘platinum rating’ in the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Cities certification by...
Advancements in Large Diameter TBM Tunneling
Over the past two decades soft ground and mixed face TBM tunnels have increased in diameter such that the term ‘large diameter TBM tunnel’ has become common usage. However, there is no actual definition of what constitutes ‘large.’ Therefore, in this article ‘large’...
CEOs Need Help Navigating The Sustainability-Oriented New World
The emergent environmental sensibilities in today’s C-suites require new kinds of CEOs who are willing to establish far-off goals for their companies that they won’t personally accomplish—and who seek unaccustomed and sometimes uncomfortable collaboration with other...
Do You know How to Boost Your Willpower?
In the American Psychological Association’s annual survey on stress, people cited lack of willpower as the No. 1 barrier to following through with changes that would improve their lives. What they’re really saying is that they don’t have the self-control to make those...