Crescent Communities Announces Construction of Flex Industrial Facility in Southwest Charlotte
Charlotte, NC – Crescent Communities today announced that it has secured and will start development on 15 acres for a flex office and industrial facility in Fort Mill, SC. Stateline Logistics Center by Crescent Communities will offer 104,000 square feet of single-story shallow bay commercial space with a compelling 24-feet of clear height. The project will include 26 trailer parking spaces in addition to surface parking. Stateline Logistics Center is located within Lakemont East Business P...
Siemens and Deerfield Beach, Fla., are making a smart city vision real
• Project for a smarter, more energy-efficient city supported by Siemens smart infrastructure solutions • Total Project Value of $9.2 million • Project expected to achieve $15 million in energy and operational savings over project term The City of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Siemens today officially announced the start of a city-wide energy efficiency project to reduce the city’s environmental footprint. Last month, the Commission of Deerfield Beach approved a 17-year contract with Siemens f...
Stantec to Lead Old Sacramento Waterfront Revitalization Effort
Sacramento, CA - In an exciting move to revitalize the beloved Old Sacramento Waterfront, the City of Sacramento recently announced plans to reimagine the City’s historic business district and its riverfront. Stantec—a global architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and consulting firm with 400 offices and more than 22,000 staff worldwide (including 200 staff and two offices in the City of Sacramento)—will be leading the project, providing architecture, engineering, landscape architect...
Construction to Start on “One of the Most Ambitious Affordable Housing Projects in the World”
Vice-President says project will “enable working Ghanaians…to purchase a home”. First 6,500 of 200,000 affordable and sustainable homes to be built in Ghana’s capital Accra. Part of UNOPS Social Impact Investing Initiative which will deliver more than 800,000 affordable homes in five countries. Site in Amasaman, near Accra, to include school, medical centre, shops and sports facilities High-quality homes to be produced by local factories and constructed with energy efficient...
KAI Build Selected General Contractor for Half-Acre Urban Park in St. Louis City’s Historic Laclede’s Landing District
(St. Louis, MO) The Great Rivers Greenway has selected KAI Build as the general contractor for The Katherine Ward Burg Garden project, the first step in a plan to redevelop the St. Louis City Riverfront in historic Laclede’s Landing. Great Rivers Greenway is a public agency dedicated to making the St. Louis region a more vibrant place to live, work and play by developing a regional network of greenways and parks. The urban park, planned for a half-acre vacant lot adjacent to historic Eads Bri...
SCISYS Enables Welsh Government to Transform Common Land and Town or Village Greens Registers in Wales
Chippenham, Wilts, UK – Following a competitive procurement exercise SCISYS UK Ltd., has been chosen as the Welsh Government’s preferred software supplier to enable the on-going implementation of the Commons Act 2006. The SCISYS software will enable the development and introduction of electronic registers for common land and town or village greens throughout Wales. The Commons Act 2006 was introduced to protect common land from development, allow more sustainable management of common land and to...
Video: Magnitude 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake
Structural engineers from Miyamoto International conducted earthquake reconnaissance in the Searles Valley immediately after California’s magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes on July 4 and 5. From an engineering perspective, Ridgecrest and Trona, the small towns most impacted by the earthquakes were lucky. Both have mostly one-story buildings that withstood the earthquakes reasonably well. Large urban areas would not be so lucky. And even in Ridgecrest and Trona, owners are finding that both struct...
It's Official: Louisiana is Sinking
BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana is officially sinking. It has been 29 years since the National Geodetic Survey measured the state’s subsidence. After completing four absolute gravity observations this past year, with the help of LSU’s Center for GeoInformatics (C4G), the NGS’s most recent findings show the state’s change in elevation. “This is the second observation NGS has performed in Louisiana, with the first one having taken place at the University of New Orleans in 1989,” LSU Chief of Geodes...
Video: National Building Museum: Lawn Construction Time-Lapse
Summer is here, which also means the arrival of the National Building Museum's 2019 Summer Block Party installation, Lawn. Watch construction for the fun exhibit in Washington, DC, with EarthCam's 4K time-lapse movie. Watch as the 30,000 square foot immersive playground covered with soy-based grass, furniture made out of recycled milk jugs and hammocks suspended from the ceiling comes to life.
Propex Geosolutions Receives Carbon Footprint Verification for PYRAMAT 75 HPTRM
Chattanooga, Tenn. (July 1, 2019) – Propex GeoSolutions recently became the first High Performance Turf Reinforcement Mat (HPTRM) manufacturer to verify the carbon footprint of its erosion control solutions. The cradle-to-grave carbon footprint of PYRAMAT® 75 HPTRM is 2.7 kgCO2e per 1m2 of material, which is equivalent to driving about seven miles. “This verification is another piece of the sustainability puzzle,” said Mike Gorey, CEO of Propex Operating Company, LLC. “We’ve known for 20 yea...
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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