Not to retire ….just yet anyway
I have now fulfilled an item on my bucket list – Try an April Fools trick on the entire library.
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Concrete in the news!!
Concrete is tipping us into climate catastrophe. It’s payback time
Cement, the key component of concrete and one of the most widely used manmade materials, is now the cornerstone of global construction. It has shaped the modern environment, but its production has a massive footprint that neither the industry nor governments have been willing to address….
Because of the heat needed to decompose rock and the natural chemical processes involved in making cement, every tonne made releases one tonne of C02, the main greenhouse warming gas.
Annual cement production has quadrupled from nearly one billion to over 4 billion tonnes a year in 30 years. In the next decade it is expected to increase a further 500m tonnes a year. Unless there is a dramatic change, cement emissions are expected to continue to rise beyond 2050.
The cement industry has transformed the world and enriched both itself and mankind. But it now threatens to tip the environment into uncontrolled warming. It’s now payback time and the industry must respond urgently to the problem it has helped to create.
(being a civil engineering librarian is the an opportunity to learn all sorts of fascinating things)
Its my daughter !! So proud!
High Court judge asks if interpreter needed following lawyer’s comments in te reo
( she spoke about three sentences )
As a librarian I like to find humour in small details….
A Technical report on the CTV collapse is listed as coming from
Rep. No. BUI.MAD249.0189, Royal Commission, Canterbury, U.K., 1–355.
…someone has problems with geography!
Don’t forget – tomorrow morning at 10.00 am EPS Library (upstairs)
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about timber engineering at the University of Canterbury….
How do they decide that multi level buildings in timber are OK – in Canterbury of all places !!!!!!!
Timber Engineering Morning Tea
Have you heard a wooden building creak and groan in an earthquake and wondered why the university is building a multistory wooden building ?
The Timber Engineering group at the University of Canterbury has an active research programme on using timber for multi-storey buildings Come along on Friday 28th September to hear more about this timber research from the academic supervisor and three PhD students . Keep 10.00 to 11.00 aside for morning tea and the presentations. Morning tea will be supplied by the famous Darfield Bakery
Come along on Friday morning… this Friday
Book your place for the timber engineering session here
Have you looked up at the new timber building on campus and wondered how this is possible?
The Timber Engineering group at the University of Canterbury has an active research programme on using timber for multi-storey buildings
Come along on Friday 28th September to hear more about this timber research from the academic supervisor and three PhD students .
Keep 10.00 to 11.00 aside for morning tea and the presentations
The talks will be held upstairs in EPS
Librarian house calls
Did you see this wonderful facebook posting ?
am so impressed with this photo layout and the likes !
