Related Links: Works Starts on Record-Scale Carbon-Capture Powerplant Carbon Capture on Fast Track in U.K. Thailand-based integrated engineering firm Toyo-Thai Corp., or TTCL, has launched the first commercial-scale application in the U.S. of a new carbon-capture technology for industrial emissions.TTCL broke ground on Sept. 30 on the $120-million SkyMine project in San Antonio. The plant will use an electrolytic system, developed by Skyonic Corp., to collect CO2, acid gases and heavy metals from emissions and mineralize them into stable solids.TTCL is expanding the Capitol SkyMine facility to collect flue gasses from the nearby Capitol Aggregates cement plant and convert them
Related Links: U.S. DOT to Help with New Mexico Repairs New Mexico is looking at, so far, an estimated $6.87 million worth of road and highway repairs from recent heavy rains and floods that battered the state in September, transportation officials say.Other damage assessments have yet to be tallied, as local and federal officials look for funds to help kick off the repair work more quickly.Twenty-five of New Mexico's 33 counties experienced flooding and infrastructure damage since two major storms slammed the state between Sept. 13 and Sept. 24 and dropped more than eight inches of rain in some regions
Rendering Courtesy of Millennium Partners; A Los Angeles group is trying to stop a city-approved $650-million high-rise development, claiming the site is dangerously close toor possibly on top ofthe active Hollywood fault. Photo Courtesy of Benchmark Contractors BLVD 6200 is already under construction on or near active splays of the Hollywood fault. Related Links: Millennium Hollywood Official Website Stop the Millennium Hollywood Project Organization Website Los Angeles city planners are so eager to redevelop the iconic Hollywood district that, according to a recent lawsuit, they approved a $650-million development that sits dangerously close to—or possibly on top of—the active Hollywood
Photo Courtesy FDOT The incident severely damaged a structural beam on the bridge's central span. Related Links: Fast-Track Replacement Planned for Collapsed Skagit River Bridge In Wake of Washington Span's Collapse, Federal Bridge Funding is in Focus The Florida Dept. of Transportation scrambled to award an emergency contract for repairs to a downtown Jacksonville bridge after a U.S. Navy cargo ship struck the 60-year-old, steel-truss structure's central span on Sept. 26. FDOT announced on Oct. 1 that Superior Construction, Jacksonville, submitted the apparent low bid, with a price of $1.07 million, plus a potential $500,000 in bonuses. FDOT estimates the
Related Links: FLEXLAB, for Plug 'n Play Green-Building Studies, Has Worlds First Revolving Test Bed Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole to Construction the World's First Rotating Test Laboratory Researchers in Norway, Singapore are Cloning FLEXLAB FLEXLAB Stantec Stantec Architecture was stumped, having gone down several dead ends trying to design a system to manage the 48 ft of flexible conduit in the crawl space under FLEXLAB's rotational green-systems test building in Berkeley, Calif. The team worried about the conduit slack, which allows the turntable to rotate without ripping out the electrical service, snaking around on the concrete
Related Links: 11th-Hour Solution Solves Cable-Protection Headache at FLEXLAB's Rotating Test-Bed Building Researchers in Norway, Singapore Are Cloning FLEXLAB Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole to Construct the World's First Rotating Test Laboratory FLEXLAB Singapore's Centre for Sustainable Buildings and Construction On Sept. 12, crews successfully rotated a 64-ft-dia turntable, complete with its unique cable management system, for the world's first revolving rent-a-lab for full-scale green-building-systems performance tests. The 40%-completed lazy-Susan building, which tracks the sun from the southeast to northeast by rotating 270˚, is the trickiest part of FLEXLAB, a $15.7-million research complex at the Lawrence Berkeley
Related Links: FLEXLAB, for Plug 'n Play Green-Building Studies, Has Worlds First Revolving Test Bed FLEXLAB PROSPECT Silicon Valley Cindy Regnier, manager of the world's first research laboratory for full-scale performance mock-ups of integrated green-building systems, is canvassing the world to find partners and research sponsors for the facility, called FLEXLAB. Regnier is bent on doing her part to create a new paradigm for energy conservation in buildings. And she is using the lab as a springboard.She seems to be succeeding. The $15.7-million FLEXLAB, which stands for "Facility for Low-Energy Experiments in Buildings," is still under construction on the campus
Andrew G. Wright for ENR Retrofit Zero Energy Building lab provides test bed for solar panels and natural lighting. Andrew G. Wright for ENR PARKROYAL Hotel on Pickering, in the central business district, maximizes green design features. Designed by WOHA, the property sports more than 15,000 cu m of gardens and pools. The Singapore Building and Construction Authority designated it a Green Mark Platinum building. Related Links: Zero Energy Building -- Singapore World Green Building Council home page With customary well-scripted attention to detail, Singapore has unveiled the latest version of the island nation-state's blueprint for sustainable development, the so-called
Related Links: Ten Minutes With Elaine Dezenski Of WTS Officials: Transportation Needs Many Options, Funding Transportation officials are calling for greater unity among modes and emphasis on infrastructure as an economic development tool in order to increase public support for funding."Transportation is increasingly about place-making," said U.S. Dept. of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, addressing members of the Women's Transportation Seminar in Washington, D.C., during a day-long symposium on Sept. 17. He added, "We have to husband our resources to be as efficient as we can."For example, he noted that ramping up use of construction methods such as warm-mix asphalt could
Related Links: Colorado Floods Leave Thousands Stranded, Infrastructure in Shambles Colorado Flood Waters Reach Historic Levels A week after heavy rains delivered what many in the area termed a 1,000-year-flood, state and local officials were still scrambling to complete rescue efforts in northern Colorado's devastated communities and begin initial cleanup and repairs that will take months, if not years, to complete.At least eight people died, tens of thousands were evacuated, and nearly 18,000 homes and 1,000 businesses were damaged or destroyed in the raging floodwaters that tore through the foothills and onto the northeastern plains. The rains, measured in Boulder
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