Rebuilding after the Feb. 2011 magnitude-6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, a city of 382,000 people, offers a cautionary tale for future disaster recovery.
The U.S. Interior Dept. has approved construction of a 287-MW solar-photovoltaic project on 1,767 acres of federal land in the Mojave Desert, near Baker, Calif.
The final portion of Water Tunnel No. 3 will be ready by 2020, Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) said one day after reports that the mayor himself had delayed the project.
Using powerful nanotechnology tools, a research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has successfully modeled the complex structure of calcium silica hydrate (CSH), the main binding material in cement and concrete.
South Carolina has the nation’s fourth-largest state-owned transportation network, but a labyrinthine project-upgrade priority system has hampered the state Dept. of Transportation’s ability to keep roads and bridges from worsening over the past decade, state auditors and Transportation Secretary Christy Hall testified on April 7.
To address climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a list of alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—gases that are used in refrigeration, air-conditioning, fire-suppression and ventilation systems for commercial and other types of buildings as well as in cars, aircraft and machinery.
Forward-thinking planners and facility managers are combining mature design ideas with new technologies to make their institutions more resilient and supportive of their constituents and surrounding communities
Commuters traveling west on Seattle’s state Route 520 had the first-ever opportunity to traverse the world’s longest floating bridge; then, heading back east, they crossed the world’s second-longest floating bridge.
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