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Frank Nowacki. Francis Joseph (Frank) Nowacki FRIBA (17 May 1947 – 24 February 2020) was a 20th/21st-century British architect who is remembered for his major project work in Dubai. He was Director of John R. Harris Partners (JRHP) Architects (the company earlier responsible for Dubai World Trade Centre).

Life

Frank Nowacki was born on 17 May 1947 in Doncaster, England. He was educated there at St Peters Roman Catholic High School, from 1958 to 1964. After initially studying engineering, a role as a site manager inspired him to study architecture, and he studied at Edinburgh College of Art graduating BA DipArch in 1975. He then settled in Edinburgh for the next 25 years.

Following qualification in 1975 he joined Douglas Abrahams and Partners, where he won a commendation for his design for a Beatles Museum in Liverpool. He later moved to Walter Wood Associates (WWA).

Until 2000 when Nowacki moved to Dubai, he lived at 99 East Claremont Street in the eastern New Town of Edinburgh.

In 2015, JRHP was taken over by the London-based architects, Aukett Swanke.

Nowacki died of motor neuron disease on 24 February 2020. He was cremated at the Lorimer Chapel in Warriston Crematorium on 6 March 2020.

Family
Frank) Nowacki was married twice. From his first marriage, he had a son, Simon Nowacki.

In 1997, Nowacki married Lesley who had two children by a previous marriage: Chris and Jenny.

Principal works
Nowacki was involved with the following:

TFG Tower
Marix Tower
Bulgari Hotel Dubai
Various buildings at Dubai Sports City
Sharjah English School
Dubai Community Arts Centre
Mall of the Emirates
Retail element at Dubai Festival City
Wafi Shopping Mall
UK Pavilion, Expo 2020, Dubai
The Arc, Bury St Edmunds
Yas Mall Hotel
Mercedes-Benz World, Dubai
Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai
Sheikh Zayed Learning Centre
Fontenay Hotel, Hamburg
International City Mall, Dubai

References

1947 births
2020 deaths
Architects from Yorkshire
Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
People from Doncaster
British architects
British expatriates in the United Arab Emirates
Emirati architects
Architecture in Dubai
Manderbach Fahrzeugbau. The Manderbach Fahrzeugbau company in Wissenbach, Dillkreis, Germany produced light trucks from 1949 to 1956.

History 
In 1899, Louis Manderbach founded the Manderbach Fahrzeugbau company in Wissenbach Dillenburg a craft business and manufactured for 30 years Horse-drawn wagons only. In 1926 Manderbach started building delivery vans, initially three-wheeler delivery vans. The front part of the car consisted of half a motorcycle (front fork and engine), at the rear a platform was built on an axle with two wheels. 

In the 1930s a collaboration with the vehicle manufacturer Framo in Saxony was agreed. Framo produced similar three- and four-wheeler commercial vehicles. Manderbach assembled the Framo vehicles until World War II. In 1949 Manderbach again built its own delivery vans, the Framo design retained.

Manderbach wanted to change production to the air-cooled DKW engines, which were not available for him at the time. He was able to switch to the 1.2 liter Ford Taunus engine. Louis Manderbach died in 1949 and his son took over the company. In 1954, the company had to announce comparison, and commercial vehicle construction was discontinued in 1956. From 1945 to 1956, a total of 598 platform and panel vans were manufactured. Manderbach was still able to sell car bodies until 1960.

Literature 

 Deutsche Last- und Lieferwagen. Band 2. Motorbuch Verlag, , page 479 (German)

References 

1960 disestablishments
1899 establishments
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany
Three-wheeled motor vehicles
Mutel (engineering). Mutel, Mutel & Cie was a French manufacturer of automobiles and engines, based in Paris, from 1902 until 1906.

Company history 
The Parisian company produced both engines and complete automobiles from  1902 until 1906. Engines were also supplied to other automobile manufacturers.

Vehicles
Vehicles were built on a Malicet et Blin (M.A.B.) chassis, equipped with an in-house engine. One model had a 30 hp four-cylinder engine. In 1902 they offered two, three and four-seat models.

Engine deliveries 
Engines were supplied to: Otto Beckmann, BLM (Breese, Lawrence, Moulton), Boissaye, Celtic (Thornton Engineering), Century Engineering, Couverchel, C.V.R., Dorey, Elswick, L & B, Lacoste & Battmann, Meteor, Morgan, Prunel, Regal, Sage and Wasp.

References

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
French companies established in 1902
Ipswich Gas Company. The Ipswich Gas Company was a gas supply company formed in 1820. The Ipswich Paving Commissioners had installed 300 Smythuril's Patent Lamps in 1793. Twenty five years later Robert Ransome needed coke for his foundry, and gas suitable for gas lights was a side product. In 1818 Ransome, with his brother James and John Shewell established a small coke oven in their foundry in Old Foundry Street. Their employee, William Cubitt, made sure that the gas produced by the coke plant was collected and distributed at first to Carr Street, Tavern Street and on the Cornhill.

Dykes Alexander was the first chairman of the company. The Ipswich engineer, businessman and politician Ebenezer Goddard worked for the company for many years, as did his father Daniel Poole Goddard.

References

Companies based in Ipswich
Geraldine Fitzpatrick. Geraldine Fitzpatrick (born 1958) is an Australian professor and academic researcher who serves as the head of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at TU Wien  (Vienna University of Technology) since 2009. Her research is interdisciplinary at the intersection of social and computer sciences.

She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IFIP Fellow.

Education 
Fitzpatrick started her degree in Computer Science in 1989, in University of Queensland. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.

Fitzpatrick also holds a certificate in midwifery (1983).

Career 
Fitzpatrick's research is on social interaction and spans a range of areas including collaboration, health and well-being, technology-enabled mental health and active engagement for older people.

Prior to her career in information technologies, Fitzpatrick worked as a midwife and a nurse. After completing her degree in computer science, she worked as a research fellow at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre and Centre for Online Health in Australia. She was the Director of the Interact Lab at the University of Sussex.

Fitzpatrick is a member of the ACM Distinguished Member Committee, the ACM CHI Steering Committee. She is the Austrian representative on IFIP TC13. She was the former associate editor and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) journal.

She is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Awards 
 ACM Distinguished Scientist (2016)
 IFIP Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13) Pioneer Award recipient (2019)
IFIP fellow (2020)

References 

1958 births
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian electrical engineers
Australian expatriates in Austria
Academic staff of TU Wien
University of Queensland alumni
Nicole Bauer. Nicole Bauer (born 19 March 1987) is a German industrial engineer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

Early life and career 
After graduating in 2003 at the Staatliche Realschule Landshut, Bauer completed her vocational baccalaureate at the Fachoberschule Landshut in 2005. She completed her studies at the University of Applied Sciences Landshut with a focus on electronics, systems and technologies. She received her diploma as industrial engineer in 2009.

Bauer is a graduate industrial engineer (FH) in the field of electrical engineering. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as an industrial engineer at Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH in Regensburg and from 2012 to 2018 in the drive system division of BMW in Munich.

Political career 
Bauer has been a member of the Free Democrats since 2010. She became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Landshut. She has since been serving on the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. She is her parliamentary group’s spokesperson on women's policy.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Bauer was part of her party's delegation in the working group on climate change and energy policy, co-chaired by Matthias Miersch, Oliver Krischer and Lukas Köhler.

References

External links 

 Bundestag biography 

1987 births
Living people
Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria
Female members of the Bundestag
21st-century German women politicians
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)
People from Vilsbiburg
Karlheinz Busen. Karlheinz Busen (born 5 April 1951) is a German civil engineer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.

Early life and career 
After completing school in 1965, he began an apprenticeship as a draftsman, which he completed in 1968. From 1968 to 1972, he underwent training as a civil engineering technician and obtained the entrance qualification for a technical college. He then studied Structural Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Minden Department, from 1973 to 1976, graduating as a Diplom-Civil Engineer. During his military service, he served as a staff soldier and attained the rank of private. From 1976, he operated his own company with eight employees.

Political career 
From 2012 until 2017, Busen served as a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. 

Busen became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. In parliament, he serves as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for hunting and forestry.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 German elections, Busen was part of his party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy, co-chaired by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner.

References

External links 

  
 Bundestag biography 

 

1951 births
Living people
Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
People from Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)
Bielefeld University alumni
Vega Model 2 Starliner. The Vega Model 2 Starliner was a prototype five-seat feeder airliner produced by the Vega Airplane Company, a subsidiary of Lockheed. It was designed to be powered by an unusual powerplant, consisting of two Menasco piston engines coupled together to drive a single propeller. A single example was built, flying in 1939, but no production followed.

Design and development
In 1935 Lockheed chief engineer Hall Hibbard discussed with Al Menasco the coupling of two Menasco C6S-4 engines mounted side-by side, driving a single propeller. In 1937, a Lockheed subsidiary, the AiRover Company, designed the Model 2 Starliner, to be powered by the new  Menasco U2-544 Unitwin engine. The Starliner was a low-wing monoplane constructed with a light-alloy semi-monocoque structure conventional tail and rearward retracting undercarriage which remained exposed when retracted. The enclosed cabin was available in two cabin layouts: a custom luxury setup for private owners or a "Starliner" five seat configuration with a smaller baggage compartment for airline use. The twin engine design was intended to provide a margin of safety in the event of a failure of one engine half, with the airplane continuing to fly on the other engine half.

The AiRover Company undertook to build the Starliner and was re-organised as the Vega Airplane Company in 1938, with Jack Wassall as project engineer. The sole Starliner emerged in early 1939 and was marketed as a small feeder-liner and custom executive transport. The first flight from Burbank on 22 April 1939 ended with an emergency landing, after the propeller slipped into fine-pitch. During the repairs the single tail unit was replaced with a Lockheed trademark twin tail.

Found to be too small for airline use, the Starliner was discontinued with the need for Lockheed and Vega to concentrate on military contracts, but the Starliner name would later be reused on the Lockheed L-1649 Starliner.

Operational history
The prototype was first flown by Harry Downs at Plant B-1 in Burbank, California on 22 April 1939, making an emergency landing when the propeller entered fine-pitch. Flight testing continued after repairs, but another forced-landing occurred after the undercarriage failed to extend. Repaired again, the Starliner completed its flight test program, flying a total of 85 hours before the aircraft was sold to a movie studio for use as a non-flying prop.

Variants
Model 2
Single tail version
Model 22
Twin tail version
Model 24
Cargo version

Operators

 Mid-Continent Airlines (proposed)
 Vega Aircraft Corporation

Specifications

See also

References

1930s United States civil utility aircraft
Twin-engined single-prop tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
Lockheed aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Hitachi Zosen Inova. Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is a Swiss company specialising in energy from waste (EfW). It is a subsidiary of the Japanese Hitachi Zosen Corporation since its acquisition in 2010 from A-TEC Industries.

History
Inova formed, as L. von Roll Bamag AG, in 1933, as a spin-off of the company Gesellschaft der Ludwig von Roll'schen Eisenwerke, which dated from 1823, and specialised in waste treatment. By 1966 the company was operating in France, Germany, Japan and Sweden. In 1975 US operations began. The environmental arm of the company was called Von Roll Inova Group. In 2003 Austrian Energy & Environment Group (AE&E) bought Von Roll Inova on behalf of A-TEC Industries.

Shares in Costain Group dropped when AE&E delayed £22 million in payments due for building the Riverside Resource Recovery ERF in London in November 2010. 

AE&E Inova changed its name to Hitachi Zosen Inova in December 2010 when A-TEC went into administration, and sold it to the Hitachi Zosen Corporation.

In 2014 HZI acquired Axpo Kompogas, allowing it to sell anaerobic waste digestion technology in the UK.

In 2021 HZI acquired from Viessmann Group the german company Schmack Biogas Service, a supplier in the biogas industry, founded in 1995, which was renamed Hitachi Zosen Inova Schmack.

In march 2024, HZI acquired Schmack Biogas Srl, an Italian biomethane EPC company formerly part of the German Schmack Biogas holding, from PLC Spa.

In October 2024 Hitachi Zosen Inova becomes Kanadevia Inova. Company organization was not altered in this rebranding.

Projects
The company built an EfW plant in San Luis Obispo, California, in 2018, and has pioneered the production of synthetic carbon-neutral methane by electrolysis of water to form hydrogen then reacting it with carbon dioxide, a process it calls EtoGas. 

The Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre outside Edinburgh opened in 2019, using combustion and XeroSorp flue gas treatment from HZI. This is a dry adsorption system which uses sodium bicarbonate to clean the exhaust. 

In 2019 the company was contracted to build what would be the largest EFW plant in England, at Rookery South, near Stewartby in Bedfordshire. The project was expected to be completed in 2022, and was the firm's eleventh EfW project in the UK. Local residents mounted a nine-year protest against the plant, which was being built on an abandoned quarry.

The Newhurst EfW plant, in Shepshed in the East Midlands just off the M1, was expected to open in 2023. Ingo Eifert was the project leader for HZI. It was to use similar technology to that at Millerhill.

HZI was building Western Australia's first EfW plant near Perth; it was expected to come online in late 2022.

References

External links
 Official site

Engineering companies of Switzerland
Swiss companies established in 2010
Energy companies established in 2010
Parami Energy Group. Parami Energy Group of Companies is a Myanmar-based energy conglomerate active in solar powered electricity generation, Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import and distribution, and oil & gas exploration and development.

History 
Parami Energy Group of Companies was founded in 2004 by Ken Tun as an engineering service provider. In 2009, Parami partnered India's Punj Lloyd Group in the construction of the landmark 40" x 205 km pipeline connecting the offshore Shwe natural gas field to China, a project that commissioned for operation in July 2013.

In 2012, Parami secured a license to explore and develop Myanmar’s PSC-I onshore oil and gas block with India’s Jubilant Energy. In 2014, it was awarded a license to explore and develop two offshore oil and gas blocks, AD-3 and A5, as minority shareholder with UK-based Ophir Energy and US-based Chevron.

In March 2017, Parami was selected by the Union Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation as the private sector developer and operator of solar-powered electrification projects in rural Magway and Mandalay regions as part of the Myanmar government's National Electrification Program supported by the World Bank.

In September 2017, Parami was awarded a contract by the Union Ministry of Electricity and Energy to operate a state-owned LPG import facility.

Operations 
The company currently operates two projects. Under its Parami Gas brand, it markets and distributes LPG to commercial and residential customers across Myanmar. Secondly, it operates two solar power projects on Yesagyo Island and in Gyaint Gyi township of Magway and Mandalay regions respectively.

References 

Energy in Myanmar
Petroleum in Myanmar
Conglomerate companies of Myanmar
Holding companies established in 2004
Renewable energy companies of Myanmar
Liquefied petroleum gas
Liquefied natural gas
Energy companies established in 2004
Martin Neumann. Martin Neumann (born 27 January 1956) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 2009 until 2013 and again from 2017 until 2021.

Early life and career 
Neumann was born in Vetschau, Brandenburg. After studying technical building equipment at the Technical University of Dresden, he was awarded a doctorate in 1987 as Dr.-Ing. at the Cottbus University of Engineering after successfully defending his dissertation on the subject of investigating the thermal insulation behaviour of heavy ventilated exterior wall structures. 

From 1987 to 1990, Neumann worked as the urban planning director in Lübbenau. Since 1995, Neumann has been a sworn expert for building services, heat, cold and noise insulation. From 1997 to 1999, Neumann was a lecturer for supply engineering and technical building equipment at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. In 1999, he accepted a call to the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal as professor for technical building services. He is also an energy consultant for the consumer advice centre.

Political career 
Neumann first served on the Bundestag from 2009 until 2013. In parliament, he was a member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment.

Neumann became a member of the Bundestag again in the 2017 German federal election. He was a member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and served as his parliamentary group's spokesman for energy policy.

He lost his seat in the 2021 German federal election.

Other activities 
 Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Alternate Member of the Advisory Board (2018–2021)
 German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board (2018–2021)

References

External links 

  
 Bundestag biography 
 

 

 

1956 births
Living people
Members of the Bundestag for Brandenburg
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)
Ning Jinsheng. Ning Jinsheng (; October 22, 1932 – March 15, 2020) was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at Wuhan University, a president of Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Biography
Ning was born in Tianjin, on October 22, 1932, while his ancestral home was in Tongcheng County, Anhui. In September 1951, he entered Tongji University, where he studied surveying under , , and Ye Xue'an (). After graduating in 1956, he was assigned to the Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping () as an assistant. In May 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to work in the dining room instead of teaching in classrooms. In August 1984, he was appointed vice-president of Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping Technology (), rising to the president position in January 1988. In August 2000, Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping Technology was merged into Wuhan University, and he served as professor and doctoral supervisor of the university. On March 15, 2020, he died in Wuhan, Hubei, aged 87.

Honours and awards
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1932 births
2020 deaths
Chinese geodesists
Engineers from Tianjin
Tongji University alumni
Academic staff of Wuhan University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering