With the announcement that BP has reached an agreement with the federal government over damages caused to the Gulf of Mexico by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, observers say the time line for significant coastal restoration projects will be accelerated.
If all goes as planned, the growing season for lettuce and herbs will begin before year-end in a 69,000-sq-ft converted steel plant in Newark, N.J.Crews are transforming the plant into a $30-million vertical farm. The team includes the grower AeroFarms, which will be headquartered there, and the building owner-developer, RBH Group.When completed, AeroFarms will have the capacity to grow up to 2 million lb per year of baby leaf greens and herbs in an environmentally controlled, safe and sanitary facility, says AeroFarms, which hopes to create a model for sustainable indoor farming.Annual production per sq ft will be 75 times
Enlarge Rendering Courtesy of Hong Kong Airport Authority Hong Kong master plan includes a third runway and extensive reclamation work. Related Links: Immersed In Innovations, Hong Kong-Macau Link Takes Shape Hong Kong Secures $1.1 Billion To Cover Jump in Cost of Link Road Project Construction of a third runway at one of the world's busiest airports will include careful reclamation of some 650 hectares of contaminated land, using techniques such as Deep Cement Mixing (DCM) and wick drains. Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok International Airport needs the third runway to handle an expected 97 million passengers by 2030, as compared
Image courtesy of Auckland Transport New transit link will serve a rapidly growing Auckland city center. Image courtesy of Auckland Transport Related Links: New Zealand's $1B Highway Job Resumes After Concrete Error Skills Shortage Challenges New Zealand Earthquake Rebuild A $1.7-billion public transit line dubbed the “missing link” in Auckland, New Zealand’s rail and bus network is a step closer to construction. Two joint ventures are beginning a $2-million initial design phase for the City Rail Link (CRL), which will include 3.6 meters of tunnels.Downer NZ, Soletanche Bachy JV, and Connectus, a joint venture of McConnell Dowell and Hawkins, will
Related Links: Egypt Moves Forward on $6-Billion Petrochemical Project Dramatic Drop in Fuel Prices Starts to Ripple Through Costs Carbon Holdings, Egypt’s largest industrial developer and operator of downstream oil-and-gas projects, hopes to finalize funding for its $7.4-billion Tahrir Petrochemicals project by the end of the year. Key to the deal is a pledge by five financiers to back construction of the complex.Carbon Holdings CEO Basil El-Baz last year projected the greenfield project would reach financial closure by the fourth quarter and break ground in 2015, but delays in finalizing project financing have pushed back the schedule.El-Baz was quoted by
A new standard for design guidance on legionellosis is currently available from ASHRAE, formerly known as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 188-2015, Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems, sets minimum legionellosis-risk-management requirements for water systems.ASHRAE developed the standard in response to the 8,000 to 10,000 cases of Legionnaires’ disease reported each year in the U.S. More than 10% of those cases are fatal, says Tom Watson, chair of the ASHRAE committee that wrote the standard. Legionella can also cause a less-severe influenza-like illness known as Pontiac Fever.The standard is targeted for use by
There had been a magnificent palace next to the River Spree in central Berlin since the 15th century, apart from a few decades after World War II. With the recent topping out of a huge concrete structure on the same site, a Baroque-style replica is taking shape in the German capital, but the project still needs $30 million more for the facade.After some 27 months of work, Hochtief Solutions A.G., Hannover, finished the structure of the emerging Berlin Palace–Humboldtforum on June 12, formally completing its $53-million core-and-shell contract on time and on budget, says Bernd Pütter, Hochtief’s chief spokesman.With 100,000
France's national waterway authority has named a design-firm team to plan and manage construction and commissioning of what will be an estimated $5-billion new canal to transport freight in northern Europe. The 107-kilometer-long Canal Seine Nord will link the River Seine basin from north of Paris, near Compeigne, to the River Schleidt, near Lille, to form a key part of a Trans-European Multi-Modal Corridor. The 54-meter-wide by 4.5-m-deep canal will handle vessels up to 4,400-tonnes capacity and require 55 million cu m of earthworks The waterway authority Voies Navigables de France awarded the 12-year contract, valued at $90 million, to
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