Lerner and Associates Planned 60-acre urban park in commercial center would channel traffic into underground tunnel. An average of 750,000 vehicles drive every day on Israel's most heavily used freeway. Tel Aviv city officials have given initial approval to an estimated $500-million plan to add a 60-acre roof park over the central segment of the Ayalon Freeway, the busiest transportation artery and densest infrastructure corridor in Israel.The plan calls for covering a 2-kilometer-long by 100-meter-wide section with a grassy roof, with traffic flowing through a tunnel underneath.While a freeway roof has long been eyed by city officials, last month's approval
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player World Bank Related Links: World Bank release World Bank fact sheet on project World Bank project appraisal (127 pp.) The World Bank has agreed to provide $700 million in loan guarantees to help finance a major natural-gas project in Ghana.The bank said its board’s July 30 approval of the guarantees, which it says is a record amount for such aid, will spur billions of dollars in additional investment for the Sankofa natural-gas project and lead to final contracts.The World Bank also said its financial aid should stimulate substantial private spending for the project, which is
SolarReserve The 96-MW Jasper solar-energy project, near Kimberly, South Africa, came on line in October 2014. South Africa Photovoltaic Association Although Africa's rapid growth of residential solar installations is nourishing a nascent PV manufacturing base in Egypt, more mature offshore competitors from China and Canada (pictured) hold comfortably dominant market shares. Related Links: Google Invests In Solar Africa Sub-Saharan Africa's Energy Sector on Growth Trajectory in 2015 Despite Hiccups Egypt has prequalified 110 bidders for the construction of 2,000 MW of solar-photovoltaic and wind energy projects under the country’s first round of its new feed-in-tariff (FiT) program, launched in September
Sound Transit Crews install rebar at the Capitol Hill Station pedestrian tunnel, which lies beneath Broadway and connects to Seattle Central Community College. Related Links: Seattle Rail Tunnels Proceeding Smoothly Glen Frank: A Wrestler Leads Tough Tunnel Job As crews in July removed a wall that separated existing rail track from the construction zone for a segment of the light-rail system that will connect downtown Seattle to the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium, the nearly $2-billion project, which includes two underground stations and 3.15 miles of bored track, remains about six months ahead of schedule six years into construction. The
Image courtesy of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey New York is redeveloping its airports, as shown in a rendering of LaGuardias new terminals. Photo courtesy of LPCiminelli The state is also seeding new technologies such as SolarCitys solar panel factory in Buffalo. Related Links: Lightfair 2015: Blue LED Inventor Showcases His Latest Innovation The Empire State was once a manufacturing powerhouse. Those days faded long ago, stranding large swaths of real estate, particularly upstate, and leaving behind the aging artifacts of industrial infrastructure.In the past several years, Empire State Development and other state agencies have funded
Kiewit Infrastructure Group beat the clock for a second time, as it demolished and replaced an Interstate 40 bridge in Nashville in less than 58 hours, using accelerated bridge construction to minimize traffic impact in a heavily traveled area.
Photo Courtesy of Deepwater Wind Officials observe the July 27 installation of the first of five jacket foundations for turbines on the Deepwater Wind offshore Rhode Island project. Related Links: Utilities Pull Out of Cape Wind In Major Blow to Offshore Wind Project Offshore N.J. Wind-Farm Developer Will Challenge State Rejection The 30-MW Deepwater Wind offshore wind farm—for which the first of five 400-ton turbine jacket foundations was installed three miles off the coast of Rhode Island on July 27—has now progressed beyond similar ventures in Northeast U.S. waters that remain mired in court battles or regulatory red tape.A joint
This summer, Denis Hayes is “off the grid.” But Seattle’s celebrated sun worshipper— known for growing Earth Day into a global environmental movement and for masterminding a living laboratory for ultra-green commercial office buildings—is not lying on a beach soaking up the rays.
The 52,000-sq-ft Bullitt Center, considered the greenest building in the world, is a tangible representation of the way Denis Hayes, Bullitt Foundation’s president and CEO since 1992, has altered the course of the environmental group.
Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program, a 2009 city ordinance created to remove regulatory and other impediments to the development of ultra-green buildings, would likely never have seen the light of day if not for Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the nonprofit Bullitt Foundation.
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