8 juLY 2019 ACEARCHITECTURECONSTRUCTIONENGINEERINGUPDATE
G
eneral V K Singh (Retd) took
charge of the office of the
Union Minister of State for
Road Transport and Highways in New
Delhi. He was Union Minister of State
for External Affairs in the previous
government. Speaking to media,
Gen Singh said he will take forward
the good work done by the ministry.
He said holistic development of road
infrastructure in the country will be
given top priority. General V K Singh
is a member of Lok Sabha since May,
2014.During his military career, the ex-
serviceman served as the 24th Chief
of the Army Staff from 2010 to 2012.
He also became the first serving
Indian military Chief of Staff to take
the Government of India to court,
with regard to a dispute over his date
of birth and subsequent retirement.
He joined the BJP on March 1, 2014,
and won the Ghaziabad seat with a
record margin of over 5.67 lakh votes
— greater than the 3.36 lakh victory
margin of Narendra Modi over AAP
leader Arvind Kejriwal from Varanasi
the same year.V K Singh takes
over as Minister
of State for Road
Transport and
Highways
Honeywell launches software solution for efficient
building management
H
oneywell has launched a new class of
software solution for large enterprises
that also includes efficient building
management. The software solution, tagged
as Honeywell Forge, will facilitate enterprise
performance management for operations
technology. For Buildings, it will help business
owners and operators decrease operating
expenses, improve energy consumption and
manage space optimisation across an entire
building portfolio.According to company statement, this software
can help reduce the operating expense of a
building portfolio by up to 25 per cent by
providing visibility, monitoring and control of all
building systems and processes across an entire
portfolio of buildings.“Honeywell Forge for Buildings is open, extensible,
intelligent and easy to use. You can turn on a
building in a day or less and review the operations
of a building from anywhere – including your
favourite coffee shop,” said David Trice, Vice
President and General Manager, Honeywell
Connected Enterprise, Buildings.More than 90 per cent of building management
decision makers surveyed agree that a better
enterprise management system can help improve
resource management, avoid unplanned downtime
and provide enhanced predictive information to
make facilities safer and more secure.N
EMO has introduced two new lights
to its existing collection - Crown and
Linescapes. The company represents
the design lighting producers’ scenario,
which is now available at P3 Architectural
Solutions in India. Going back to roots of
innovation, the lighting player edits and
masters contemporary collection, a unique
selection of icons, realised by designers thathave provided a fundamental contribution to
the creation of contemporary design.Pendant chandeliers, with modular structure
in die-casted aluminium and sandblasted
glass diffusers. Structure in hand polished
aluminium, glossy gold plated, black plated
or painted in matt white, matt black or gold.Linescapes is a modular system that is
completely changing the approach to
high performance diffused direct and
indirect lighting. The singular modules
are connected by quick moulded ABS
connectors, which enable rapid jack
installation and a 360-degree rotation.
Different elements allow the composition of
continuous lines and edges with a luminous
efficiency and diffusion degree, through
an opaline diffuse in polycarbonate. The
system has been studied to provide user-
friendly maintenance. Nemo has efficiently
solved the problem of replacing LED built-
in sources, whereby the single lighting
elements can be easily changed.NEMO breathes new innovations in lighting