Weekly Quiz: What is Volvo CE’s new programme to train female operators called?

1) Leica Geosystems has partnered with Boston Dynamics to make the first what for the robotics company’s Spot the robot dog?

• An in-built comms facility to allow video conference calls with members of the project team who aren’t on site
• The first certified reality capture device, the Leica BLK ARC
• Lazer eyes, capable of cutting steel at 50 paces

2) Granite and Obayashi Corp have won a $113 million contract to build new facilities for US Marines relocating from Okinawa to a base on which island territory?

• Guam
• Cape Verde
• British Virgin Islands

3) How much has Poland’s government committed to the construction by Bechtel of the country’s first-ever nuclear power plant?

• Nothing – the project is being privately financed
• US$8.2 billion
• US$15.7 billion

4) Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has launched the start of a new global vocational initiative enabling women to get specialised training to operate construction machines. Starting in Ukraine, what is the programme called?

• Team Tungsten
• Iron Women
• Steel Magnolias

5) In London, UK, Canary Wharf Group and its Canary Wharf Contractors arm have started construction on Europe’s largest what?

• Data centre, designed to support banking and financial services companies based in the area
• A 10-storey soft play fun house for bored financial services executives
• A 23-storey commercial laboratory with its own rooftop terrace and restaurant

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