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Health in Harmony Saves Rainforests with 'Stethoscopes'

Kinari Webb's group is building a hospital in Borneo to discourage illegal logging

August 16, 2016

American design team, led by architect Richard Ramer, provides pro bono services for 27,000-sq-ft hospital that will never turn a patient away.

Transportation

China Announces $7.6B Financing for Tanzania Rail Project

Thirteen bidders shortlisted for proposed public private partnership model

Shem Oirere

August 11, 2016

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The standard-gauge line route stretches from Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to land-locked Rawanda and Burundi and parallels the existing narrow-gauge line for much of the way before establishing new links to the interior.

Green Buildings

Database Aims to Remove Code Barriers to Sustainability

Nadine M. Post

August 10, 2016

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Watershed Management Group, a Tucson-based nonprofit, initiated a research project with the ultimate goal of convincing Arizona building officials to accept non-code-compliant composting toilets—critical to potable water conservation in buildings—as an alternative to an onsite wastewater system.

Construction Starts Are Down 11% From First Half of 2015

August 10, 2016

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Total construction starts fell 7% in June, continuing downward pressure on markets, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

Construction Equipment Sales Surge in India

August 10, 2016

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India’s construction-equipment sales grew 37% year-over-year in the first six months of 2016 and are expected to grow a further 20% this year, according to U.K.-based market analyst Off-Highway Research.

ACI Releases Update of Structural Concrete Specification

August 10, 2016

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User-friendlier language, provisions on alkali-silica reactivity and the absence of default requirements for slump are three of the changes in the latest update of ACI 301-16 Specifications for Structural Concrete, according to the American Concrete Institute.

At FP&L Power Plant, Canal Waters Still Turbulent

Thomas F. Armistead

August 10, 2016

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Controversy continues to dog the cooling system at Florida Power & Light Co.’s 3550-MW Turkey Point Power Station in Florida City despite the utility’s June 20 consent agreement with the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection.

Risk Management

Surety Sector P3 Progress Report

How the surety industry sees public-private partnerships

Lenore Marema

August 10, 2016

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State lawmakers have been adopting P3 laws slowly and steadily for over a decade.

Connecticut Combined Sewer Overflow Tunnel Moves Forward

Justin Rice

August 10, 2016

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An approximately four-mile-long, 18-ft-diameter and 200-ft-deep tunnel to mitigate storm water and combined sewer overflow into the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound is slated to begin construction this month.