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Heathrow is facing "damaging " constraints on its capacity after an increase in traffic led to the airport serving a record 69.4 million passengers in 2011.

BAA, owners of the airport, said Heathrow is at 99.2% capacity after there were 476,197 flights in 2011 against an annual limit of 480,000.

Smart meter specialist Landis+Gyr has completed its first acquisition since it was purchased by Technology giant Toshiba, shelling out an undisclosed sum for US-based meter data management software firm Ecologic Analytics.

Landis+Gyr has held a stake in the Minnesota-based firm since 2007 and the two companies have worked closely since then on integrating Ecologic’s software with the Swiss company’s smart meter devices.

Six water treatment plants on the south coast have installed solar panels in a move that could save operator Portsmouth Water £4000 a year in electricity costs.

Each site has fitted 50kW of solar panels, worth a combined £700,000 across its reservoir roofs and adjacent land to produce electricity that will be used on-site to pump and treat water.

Lufthansa looks set to conclude its biofuel trial with its first biofuel-powered trans-Atlantic flight.

A Boeing 747-400 will leave Frankfurt bound for Washington carrying around 40 tonnes of a biosynthetic fuel mix, which the company estimates will reduce CO2 emissions by 38 tonnes, roughly equivalent to six scheduled flights between Frankfurst and Berlin.

The German energy giant RWE is to invest about 5 billion euros in renewable energy projects over the next four years, as it looks to almost double its installed capacity and prepare for Germany’s nuclear shutdown.

According to the company, new projects would include biomass plants and wind farms in the UK and Poland as well as a one billion euro offshore development in the German North Sea.

A new method of producing biodiesel from microalgae aims to overcome some of the previous drawbacks of the fuel.

Using a novel catalyst, the researchers at the Technical University of Munich were able to produce saturated hydrocarbons suitable for use as high-grade fuels in vehicles.

WS Atkins, the engineering consultancy and support services group yesterday unveiled its second material contract in Qatar in the past three months.

The company won a £70m three-year contract to set up a central planning office to co-ordinate infrastructure and transport programmes in the Middle Eastern country.

The future of British science is under serious threat because its funding body is making "disastrous errors", more than 70 senior academics have warned.

In a letter to a newspaper, they claim changes introduced by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council “are damaging scientific discovery in Britain”.

Engineers in the USA have succeeded in creating a near-perfect "superlens" that uses the principles of metamaterials to overcome conventional diffraction limits.

The lenses could be used in ultra-high resolution microscopes and more precise lasers for the microfabrication of electronic components.

Shares in oil services firm Lamprell, which builds and refurbishes equipment for the offshore oil industry, have risen 14% since November.

The company specializes in jack-up rigs which are mobile and are able to stand on the sea floor on supporting legs. This is significant because most of the “easy oil” around the world has already been exploited and oil companies are having to move into…

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