omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
The Big 5. The Big 5 is the largest construction event in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. It is held annually in Dubai in late November and attracts in excess of 67,000 construction professionals (audited by BPA Worldwide).

The Big 5 runs alongside six specialised events enabling industry professionals to source products for every stage of the construction projects: The Big 5 Heavy, Middle East Concrete, HVAC R Expo, Middle East Stone, The Big 5 Solar, and the Urban Design & Landscape Expo.

History 
The Big 5 has its origins in an event known as Arab Water and came about from an amalgamation of five separate product-focused events that all had a link to the construction sector - such as HVAC and building materials.
With the building of the Dubai World Trade Centre, which began to develop in the late 1970s, the event found a permanent home and has expanded in size along with the venue. When dmg events acquired the exhibition in 2000, the event covered some 12,000m²: this has risen to over 100,000m² in gross floor space.

Government support for the event has come from both international and local institutions. In 2007, the event was one of the first in the region to welcome a prime minister when the then Italian leader Romano Prodi visited the exhibition with his minister for international trade. In 2012, British prime minister David Cameron also visited the event in support of his nation’s export businesses. The visits reflected both the value of bilateral trade with the UAE but also the rise in importance of the Persian Gulf region as a whole to European export manufacturers.

Educational events and special features 

Since 2010 there has been an increasing emphasis on education within the events - in the form of conferences, seminars and workshops - to support continued professional development among audiences. The educational programmes are presented by a wide selection of the industry’s architects, consultants, contractors and sub-contractors who volunteer their time and expertise to further the development of the construction sector. These free education components also include certification, overseen by the UK-based CPD Certification Service, so attendance can contribute to a person’s membership standing in organisations such as RICS or the CIOB.

In 2018, The Big 5 launched the Women in Construction Forum & Awards initiative, aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace in the construction industry. Also worth mentioning is the Start-up City feature dedicated to startups with a viable product for the construction industry.

References 

Trade fairs in Dubai
Otter Lake Waste Facility. Otter Lake Waste Management Facility is a waste management facility in Otter Lake, Nova Scotia, a community of the Halifax Regional Municipality. The facility was built by the Halifax Regional Municipality in the 1990s to replace an outdated solid waste disposal site in Upper Sackville, Nova Scotia.

History
Built in 1996 after years of planning, the facility was one of the first large projects to be completed in the newly formed Halifax Regional Municipality. The site was designed to last about 66 years and turned in part of the Western Commons Wilderness park area.

In April 2013 NDP Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau, sent a letter to Halifax Regional Council expressing that both the front-end processor (FEP) and the waste stabilization facility (WSF) will continue part of the Department of Energy regulations and a commitment to the local communities. On April 30, Liberal Andrew Younger questioned the Minister's authority to get involved in Halifax Regional Council proposed changes to their waste management strategy.

Board
Under the Agreement the Community Monitoring Committee (CMC) is composed of: 
 The   Mayor;      
 2 local Councillors;  
 1 other Councillor appointed by Council;  
 2 residents of HRM who do not live in the area, appointed by Council;  
 9 residents of HRM who are elected, with 4 to 6 coming from the local community.·

Contract

A new contract was signed on December 23, 2015, after the December 8th meeting where Councillor Reg Rankin spoke at length in defence of raising the budget for the CMC. However the new contract does not contemplate a larger role, mandate, or further increase in responsibilities from the 1999 agreement signed for Community Monitoring of Solid Waste Facilities. Councillor Bill Karsten, question the need for the increase and asked for a business case to justify the additional cost. Councillor Lorelei Nicoll criticized the job as a “Sweet gig.” February 2016 council approved the funding increase for the committee's total budget, with more than half going towards raising the executive's salary. When retired CAO of the municipality Ken Meech stepped down as the CMC executive director in June 2016, Councillor Reg Rankin took over the position.

Facility
The site sits on 190 acres of land. It plays a major role in Halifax's integrated waste/recourse management strategy which requires several important conditions about materials that can be placed in the site: hazardous waste, recyclable material and unstabilized organic material. The site features a front end processor (FEP) which will sort out unwanted materials. It is located off exit 3 of Nova Scotia Highway 103.

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External links
  Otter Lake Community Monitoring Committee

Buildings and structures in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Waste management in Canada
Waste processing sites
411th Engineering Group of Borujerd. 411th Engineering Group of Borujerd (), also called 411th Combat Engineering Group of Borujerd () is combat engineering unit belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Army. Its headquarters is located near Sarab-e Zarem village, Borujerd County, Lorestan province, Iran.

Some units of the group were involved in the 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran. The 411th Group was heavily involved in various operations of the Iran–Iraq War, most notably Operation Undeniable Victory, Operation Jerusalem Way, Operation Jerusalem, Operation Kheibar, Operation Dawn 8, and Operation Nasr 2.

422nd Pontoon Bridge Group of Daghagheleh, Ahvaz is a subgroup of this unit.

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Military engineering of Iran
Military units and formations of Ground Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran Army
Borujerd
Janet Zaph Briggs. Janet Zaph Briggs (February 7, 1912 – January 25, 1974) was an American metallurgist, the first woman to earn a mining engineering degree from Stanford University, and an expert on molybdenum. She was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in 1989.

Early life
Janet Zaph Briggs was born in Santa Ana, California, the daughter of George S. Briggs and Eva Potts Briggs. She attended Stanford University, where she was vice president of the aviation club, and learned to fly while earning degrees in mining engineering in 1931 and 1933. Her master's thesis at Stanford was titled "A Short Study of the Making, Working, and Properties of Ancient Iron." She completed doctoral studies at the University of Leoben in Austria.

In 1933 Stanford University published her work titled The Microcharacter as a Metallurgical Instrument ...

Career
As a metallurgist, she worked first for Crucible Steel Company, beginning in 1936, and later for Climax Molybdenum Company, rising to the rank of vice president for technical information in 1970. She coauthored Molybdenum: Steels, Irons, Alloys in 1948, and Mo: Less Common Alloys of Molybdenum in 1962. She received a patent in 1945 for a process of making hardened steel.

As an amateur aviator, Janet Zaph Briggs earned her private pilot's license in 1930, and was one of the nine charter members of the Bay Cities chapter of the Ninety-Nines.

Personal life and legacy
Janet Zaph Briggs lived in New York City, but died while on business in Tokyo in 1974, age 61. Her gravesite is next to those of her parents, in Santa Ana, California.

Climax Molybdenum published a biography of Briggs soon after her death. In 1989, Janet Briggs was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in Leadville, Colorado. She was also posthumously awarded a "Fourth Class Order of the Sacred Treasure" by the Emperor of Japan for her contributions to the Japanese steel industry.

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1912 births
1974 deaths
American metallurgists
Scientists from Santa Ana, California
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
Stanford University alumni
University of Leoben alumni
Robattle. Robattle, stylized RoBattle (a portmanteau of robot and battle), is a modular military robot unmanned ground vehicle developed by Israel Aerospace Industries.

Overview 
It is designed to undertake certain tasks otherwise done by infantry soldiers, such as convoy protection, armed reconnaissance and others. It moves on six wheels, but these can be replaced with tracks. The robot is capable of traversing uneven terrain and going over some obstacles such as low walls. Robattle's modularity allows it to be fitted with robotic arms, radars and weapons, allowing it to engage in combat. As such, sensitive systems in the Robattle are redundant to allow it to operate after taking damage.

The Robattle weighs 7 tons and has the capability of carrying up to 3 tons. It communicates using 4G cellular technology (LTE).

Users
In 2022, the it was reported that the Spanish military was testing the Robattle, along with other unmanned ground vehicles.

See also
 Guardium
 AvantGuard

References 

Israel Aerospace Industries products
Unmanned ground combat vehicles
Lanzhou Jiaotong University. Lanzhou Jiaotong University () is a transport university in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.

It was founded in 1958 as the Lanzhou Railway University for railway engineering, a collaboration of Southwest Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University and the Chinese Ministry of Railways. Until 2000 it was under leadership of the Ministry of Railways. In 2003, it adapted its current name.

Schools
 Civil Engineering 
 Automatization and Electric Engineering
 Electronics and Information Engineering
 Mechatronic Engineering
 Environmental and Municipal Engineering
 Economics and Management
 Traffic and Transportation
 Chemical and Biological Engineering
 Foreign Languages
 Mathematics, Physics and Software Engineering
 Architecture and Urban Planning
 Art and Design
 Continuing Education
 International Joint Education

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 About Lanzhou Jiaotong University

Universities and colleges in Lanzhou
Technical universities and colleges in China
Universities and colleges established in 1958
1958 establishments in China
Jiaotong University
Railway schools
Rafael Yabut. Rafael "Pye" Cunanan Yabut (born April 26, 1953) is a Filipino engineer. He was as the acting secretary of Department of Public Works and Highways for a month and as Undersecretary for Unified Project Management Office Operations of DPWH from January 14, 2008, until his retirement last June 2016. He was also the alternate representative of the Secretary to the Toll Regulatory Board. He served as Acting Secretary under the Duterte administration from July 1, 2016, until Mark Villar assumed the post by end of July 2016.

Early life and education 
Yabut was born in Candaba in Pampanga province on April 26, 1953. His parents are Ernesto Yabut and Felipa Cunanan. He took up Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at Angeles University Foundation and graduated in 1976. He then took up Bachelor of Science in Sanitary engineering at Holy Angel University in Angeles, Pampanga where he graduated in 1983. He completed his master's degree in Public Administration at Angeles University Foundation in 1996.

Career 
Yabut started to work as laborer in DPWH office in Angeles, Pampanga in 1975 a year before his graduation from college. As district engineer of Pampanga First District Engineering Office, he used to supervised the "Operation Baklas Billboards" and cleared the national roads of Pampanga of illegal structures and obstructions. In 2003, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary of DPWH being the youngest among the executive committee. On January 14, 2008, he was appointed as DPWH undersecretary by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Yabut is known as the main official implementing the department's toll roads, including those projects under the Public-Private Partnership program. His last project was the Cavite–Laguna Expressway before retiring last June 2015 to care for his aging parents. By July 1, 2016, however, he was designated as the acting Secretary of Department of Public Works and Highways until Mark Villar assumes office by July 26 or 27.

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1953 births
Living people
People from Pampanga
Duterte administration cabinet members
Secretaries of public works and highways of the Philippines
Benigno Aquino III administration personnel
Arroyo administration personnel
Ulisses Braga Neto. Ulisses M. Braga Neto (born Feb 12 1971) is a Brazilian-American electrical engineer and is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. His main research areas are statistical pattern recognition, machine learning, signal and image processing, and systems biology. He has worked extensively in the field of error estimation for pattern recognition and machine learning, having published with Edward R. Dougherty the first book dedicated to this topic. Braga-Neto has also published a classroom textbook on Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. He has also made contributions to the field of Mathematical morphology in signal and image processing.

Biography 

Braga Neto was born in Recife, Brazil in 1971. He received the baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in 1992, and the master's degree, also in Electrical Engineering, from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1994. He received an M.Sc. degree in Mathematical Sciences in 1998 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, from Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, under the supervision of Louise Strong and Edward R. Dougherty. He worked at the Recife regional center of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz from 2004 to 2007. He moved back to the U.S. in 2007, when he joined Texas A&M University, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Work 

Braga-Neto invented, with his Ph.D. student Levi McClenny, self-adaptive physics-informed neural networks, which accelerate the convergence of PINNs in the case of difficult (stiff) PDE problems. Braga-Neto introduced, along with Edward R. Dougherty the notion of Bolstered Error Estimation. He also invented the Boolean Kalman Filter algorithm for partially-observed boolean dynamical systems (POBDS). In 2015, Braga Neto published, in collaboration with Edward R. Dougherty, the first book dedicated to the topic of error estimation for pattern recognition and machine learning. He also made contributions to the field of Mathematical Morphology in signal and image processing, particularly on the topic of image connectivity and connected operators.

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Living people
Texas A&M University faculty
American computer scientists
1971 births
Swan 36-2. The Swan 36-2 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers and Andrew Winch as a coastal cruiser and first built in 1988.

The design was originally marketed by the manufacturer as the Swan 36, but is now usually referred to as the Swan 36-2 to differentiate it from the unrelated 1967 Sparkman & Stephens Swan 36 design.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1988 until 1996, with 55 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Swan 36-2 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta 2003R diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settees in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a double "V" berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker.

The design has a hull speed of  and a PHRF handicap of 114 to 132.

Operational history
In a 2000 design review, Robert Perry wrote, "when you look at the sail plan you should notice the subtle interplay between sheerline, cove stripe and the double bootstripe. I would guess that Frers has drawn the bootstripe at least eight inches above the DWL. This all works together to accentuate and lower the freeboard. The sheer spring is subtle and beautiful. Few designers have as good an eye for a sheer as does Frers. The cabintrunk is interesting in that it fairs to a knuckle forward of the mast. This maximizes interior volume and headroom while keeping deck space."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Germán Frers
Sailboat type designs by Andrew Winch
Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan
Swan 44 Frers. The Swan 44 Frers is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Germán Frers, with styling by Andrew Winch, as a blue water cruiser and first built in 1988. The design was built in two versions.

The design was originally marketed by the manufacturer as the Swan 44, but is now usually referred to as the Swan 44 Frers to differentiate it from the unrelated 1972 Sparkman & Stephens Swan 44 design.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1988 to 2002 in both versions, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Swan 44 Frers is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, three sets of spreaders, steel rod rigging, a raked stem plumb stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel with a weighted bulb or optional shoal-draft keel.

The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an L-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main cabin, with a pilot berth to port and an aft cabin with a double berth on the port side. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one in the bow cabin on the port side and one on the starboard side aft.

Variants
Mark I
This model was produced from 1988 to 1994, with 19 built. It has a length overall of , a waterline length of , displaces  and carries  of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel and  with the optional shoal draft keel. The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines diesel engine of . The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . The design has a hull speed of .
Mark II
This model was produced from 1996 to 2002, with 68 built. It has a length overall of , a waterline length of , displaces  and carries  of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of  with the standard lead keel. The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD22L diesel engine. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . The design has a hull speed of  and a PHRF racing average handicap of 81.

Operational history
In a 2001 design review for boats.com, Robert Perry wrote, "if life were fair, we would all sail Swans and drive Mercedes. I'm not too particular about which Swan; they are all kind of nice. The Frers-designed 44 would do. It is a big sister to the 36, with the new window treatment and emphasis on cruising comfort."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Germán Frers
Sailboat type designs by Andrew Winch
Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan
Swan 38 (yacht). The Swan 38 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens as a cruiser-racer and first built in 1974. It is Sparkman & Stephens design #2167. A special reduced sail area version was also produced to comply with the One Ton class rules.

Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1974 until 1979, with 116 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Swan 38 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim and aluminum spars. The hull is made from solid glassfibre, reinforced with a galvanized I-beam. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a raised counter reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel. It is fitted with a Danish Bukh & Gry DV 20 ME diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds .

The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, two straight settees in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a single berth to port and double berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the starboard side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the port side. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side. The fresh water tank has a capacity of . Cabin maximum headroom is .

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker.

The design has a hull speed of  and a PHRF handicap of 114 to 128.

Operational history

The boat was at one time supported by a class club that organized racing events, the One Ton Class.

In a 2003 boats.com review, concluded, "There are many commendable aspects to the Swan 38. It's a pleasure to look at and an even greater pleasure to sail. With a windvane bolted on the stern, a flexible water tank added in the bow, a solar panel or two and a bit of wanderlust, the 38 will take you anywhere in the world you want to go, especially if some of that is to windward ... The Swan 38 will not be the boat for every couple. But for sailors who love to sail, who get a thrill out of solid windward performance, and enjoy a boat that stands up to a blow, the 38 is a good choice. It's the type of boat that can be kept for a lifetime of sailing, without losing value or paling in a sailor's eye. Not the grandest, fastest or most beautiful boat ever designed by the maestroes Stephens, the Swan 38 is still a great little masterpiece of an ocean-sailing yacht."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

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Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Olin Stephens
Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan