Related Links: Best of the Best 2014 Best Overall Intermountain Project of 2014 NREL Energy Lab Could Help Expand U.S. Power Grid The 148,000-sq-ft Energy Innovation Laboratory houses Idaho National Laboratory's research and development programs. The three-story EIL provides reconfigurable, open-floor lab space and state-of-the-art equipment to encourage collaboration among INL researchers, students and partners who are working to modernize America's nuclear-energy systems. It also provides a venue for visiting scientists to work with INL researchers and engineers on innovative solutions to challenges in advanced clean energy.The EIL project team initially sought to achieve LEED Gold, but close collaboration with
AP Oil giant's formerly owned Bayway refinery site in Elizabeth, N.J, which first began operation in 1909, has extensive petroleum and chemicals-related contamination on its 1,300 acres. Related Links: NJ Legislators Kick Off Hearings into Disputed Exxon Mobil Deal How clean is a cleanup? Exxon sites scrutinized as N.J. seeks settlement NJ Sierra Club: Attorney General Tries to Spin ExxonMobil Sellout NJ Announcement of Cleanup Pact for ExxonMobil Refinery Sites Document excerpts detail the state's case against ExxonMobil prior to settlement NJDEP 2006 Report: Natural Resource Damages at ExxonMobil Bayway and Bayonne Sites The huge oil Bayway refinery complex in
Photo Courtesy Kiwi Rail Aging rail bridges and trestles are being replaced across New Zealand. Photos Courtesy Kiwi Rail Rail bridge replacements on the South Island have to be completed on tight schedules to minimize interruptions in service. A 5.6-magnitude earthquake on January 5 gave South Island New Zealanders a sharp reminder of the devastating quakes which damaged much of Christchurch in 2010 and 2011. It also brought much of the rail network to a temporarily standstill while engineers checked the system’s safety.KiwiRail, New Zealand's rail operator, declared Christchurch's North Line, South Line and Hokitika Line, clear to reopen after
Hemmed in on one side by the ocean shore and on the other by a major live rail line, the NZ $50-million, or U.S. $37.5-million, Ngauranga to Aotea Quay Upgrade is finally coming to grips with one of the nation’s most congested stretches of highway.New Zealand’s State Highway One (SH1) is the nation’s most important road, linking the capital, Wellington, to Auckland and running the entire length of the North Island. Traffic engineers are unplugging a number of bottlenecks to reduce journey times and improve safety as the country’s population grows and traffic increases.One urgent project is repairing a notorious
Related Links: Ball and Taper Technology Fukushima Disaster Fukushima Forward First Subsea, based in the U.K., has supplied an innovative cable-connector system in preparation for linking to the first of two 7-MW floating wind turbines for the second phase of the Fukushima offshore floating pilot wind test project this summer.After a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, triggered a tsunami and knocked a nuclear powerplant off line, the Japanese government was quick to seek alternative means of generating electricity.The test project, commissioned in 2012 by the Japan Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry, is laying the foundation to build the
Thames Water Huge upgrade will intercept around 18 million tonnes of untreated wastewater now discharged annually into the river through numerous Victorian-era combined sewer overflows. Enlarge Thames Water Sewer program, covering 25 km, will continue through about 2023. London utility Thames Water plc has named three U.K. construction teams for up to $3.5 billion of large-diameter tunnel work on its planned mega-sewer project, the 25-km Thames Tideway. Tunneling and separate financing contracts will be awarded this summer, with construction set to start next year.The tunnel, with work projected to continue through 2023, will be the UK’s largest water-infrastructure project and
Courtesy Canton, Mass., PD Youth hockey team evacuated Canton, Mass., rink 15 seconds before section of roof collapsed. The harsh winter of 2015 is taking a toll on the roofs of New England.At about 7:15 a.m. on Feb. 28, the Norwood Nuggets youth hockey team were filing onto the Metropolis Ice Hockey Rink in Canton, Mass., for practice when they heard a snap, followed by another. Immediately, a coach yelled for everyone to leave the ice and exit the building. About 15 seconds later, a portion of the roof fell.A blast of air pressure propelled a coach across the rink,
Photo courtesy AP Wide World A water system station pumps water from the Atibainha reservoir, part of the Cantareira System that provides water to the Sao Paulo metropolitan area. Related Links: Digging Deeper To Assure Las Vegas Water Supply Drought in Western U.S. Has Water Utilities Considering a Range of Solutions The state government of São Paulo has launched the bidding documents for a $290-million project to build a water-transmission system linking the Paraíba do Sul River to the Cantareira system, which supplies most of the São Paulo metropolitan area, with a population of 22 million people.The Cantareira system’s water
Courtesy ARRUP Pipeline developers face risks of securing rights of way and permitting issues involving multiple provincial and national jurisdictions, says an official with South Africa's ARRUP. Courtesy Edison Trans Saharan Gas Pipeline will deliver an estimated 8 billion cu m of natural gas annually to Italy from Algeria. Africa is expanding its oil and gas pipeline network as countries in the region move to entrench distribution of the commodities in the domestic market and transport more to regional and international markets.Algeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Ghana are at various stages of oil and gas pipeline construction projects to
Image Courtesy of Middle East Development LLC. Construction of a $1-billion, 540-meter-tall tower in Casablanca, Morocco, is tentatively planned to commence in June. The planned tower would be tallest in Africa. Construction of a $1-billion, 540-meter-tall tower in Casablanca, Morocco, is tentatively planned to commence in June, bringing the prospect for superseding South Africa’s 223-m Carlton Centre in Johannesburg city as the tallest structure in Africa.However, project manager Amedee Santalo says the developer, Middle East Development LLC, has yet to put final touches on a deal with the Moroccan government, and with the tower being such a huge project, “it
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