Yes, there is the Tubohotel. In Mexico, in the garden of Tepotzotlán, half an hour away from the capital Mexico City, there is a hotel immersed in nature, where one sleeps in concrete tubes stacked in pyramids.

The Tubohotel has 20 rooms, each measuring 2.44 m wide by 3.5 m long. Each room, that is each tube, can accommodate two people and has a large bed that takes up almost the entire suite; however, there is no space for indoor bathrooms, but guests have access to two common services.

China decided to increase anti-dumping duties on some types of seamless stainless steel tubes for high temperatures and pressures from the USA and the EU. The 13-14.1 percent duties that had come into force in 2014 were extended and increased exponentially, welcoming the request of local producers. “The applicable anti-dumping rate – reads the government document – is between 57.9% and 147.8%”.

As for the pipes coming from the EU, the duty is 60.8%, also for the Italian IBF spa, expressly mentioned in the provision and part of the Tubacex group. For Vallourec Germany and France, the measure will stop at 57.9%. In three figures, on the other hand, the duty that will now be imposed on the import of this type of tube from the United States: it will be 147.8% and 101% for Wyman-Gordon Forgings.

The Atalanta is a state-of-the-art football club not only in the field, but also in the structures: already next season the Bergamo team will play in the new stadium owned, the works for its realization have already begun.
Among the main partners is the multinational Tenaris, based in Bergamo, which will produce the tubes for the support structure of the curved and grandstand roofs in the Dalmine plant.
The company has completed in record time the production of 700 tons of seamless pipes for the Pisani curve, which will be used in the construction of the roof support structure; subsequently Tenaris will work on the redevelopment of the Morosini curve.

In Denmark the two largest water suppliers in the country, Hofor and Novafos, are transforming parts of their water distribution networks with noise loggers, noise recorders that “listen” to the pipes to understand where there are leaks and to avoid flooding.
But how do they work? The noise loggers are compact devices composed of an accelerometer sensitive to the sound frequencies that propagate in a water pipe, from a data acquisition and recording unit, from a radio transceiver system for data exchange with a separate central unit, from the electronic part that manages the automatic operation, and from a battery for the power supply.
The water escaping from a pressurized pipeline generates a noise that propagates along the water network: the noise loggers can record these noises and analyze them, distinguishing them from other background noises that propagate in the pipes. In this way it is possible to establish whether there is a loss in the vicinity, based on an evaluation carried out automatically by the internal software.
The noise loggers are used to analyze the networks on which it intends to control water losses, occasionally for a control or even permanent if you intend to keep the network under constant monitoring. Operationally the noise loggers are connected a few hundred meters from each other along the water network to be analyzed, using a magnet that makes them adhere to the pipeline; the device records the sound frequencies present in the network for a predefined time, preferably at night, defining through the internal algorithm the presence or absence of nearby leaks. Through an external data acquisition unit, the results of the listening of each unit are downloaded, the results thus acquired allow to intervene in a timely manner where there are losses and to avoid flooding.

They are called Exitenter, Ache77, Nian, they are just some of the many street artists – more or less good and more or less famous – that adorn the walls of cities with their drawings, in the wake of a myth like Bansky. Usually choosing desolate and decadent corners, often the tubes fall into their works: on a tube a fox clings, from a tube a flower is born, a tube frames a portrait …