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WTC Awarded 2015 Best Tall Building

WTC Awarded 2015 Best Tall Building

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One World Trade Center (WTC) was awarded the 2015 Best Tall Building Award for the U.S. from The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). WSP, a global engineering and professional services organization, served as structural engineer for the 104-story office tower on behalf of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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Work Stops on World’s Tallest Modular Tower

Work Stops on World’s Tallest Modular Tower

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Skanska stopped work on the world’s tallest modular building last week over a dispute with the project’s developer Forest City Ratner. Skanska feels that the delays to the project have resulted from the modular designs for the buildings. They feel that Forest City Ratner should be held responsible for the cost overruns.  Richard Kennedy, co-chief operating officer of Skanska USA, told the Wall Street Journal, “it [the design] just doesn’t work the way it was sold to work. It was represented to be a complete and buildable modular design,” he said. “That simply was not the case and that’s what we’ve been struggling with.”  Forest City Ratner, however, stands by their design and believes the dispute is based on financial reasons.

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MoMA Tower to be Newest Addition to New York Skyline

MoMA Tower to be Newest Addition to New York Skyline

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Construction has started on one of Manhattans newest skyscrapers. Located at 53 W. 53rd St. the MoMA Tower, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, is to be completed sometime in 2018. Featuring a tapered profile with a roofline staggered across three irregular levels, the 1050-foot tall (82-storey) structure will house 139 apartments and is Nouvel’s first skyscraper in NYC. The tower will also have new public gallery spaces on the second, fourth and fifth floors, into which the neighboring Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will expand its galleries.

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First 3D-Printed U.S. Estate Slated for 2017

First 3D-Printed U.S. Estate Slated for 2017

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The first 3D printed estate in the United States is set to be complete by the end of 2017. The ambitious project is being undertaken by New York City architect Adam Kushner, alongside partners including 3D-printing pioneer Enrico Dini and his D-Shape firm. The estate will feature a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, carport and a 2,400 square foot house in upstate New York.

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Elevated seawall to be built for New York flood resilience

Elevated seawall to be built for New York flood resilience

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The 11.2km-long seawall, stretching from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, will protect communities from severe coastal flooding, while creating new wetland habitats and recreational amenities.

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Rain gardens in NY City to eliminate the overflows during intense precipitation events

Rain gardens in NY City to eliminate the overflows during intense precipitation events

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New York City, like other older urban communities, is largely serviced by a combined sewer system where storm water and wastewater are carried through a single sewer line to the city’s 14 treatment plants. These facilities can manage and treat all the wastewater produced in the city on a dry weather day (1.3 billion gallons on average) and also have the capacity to clean more than twice the dry weather flows on a rainy day. But during intense precipitation events, the storm water exceeds this capacity and overflows can be discharged into local waterways. In an effort to improve water quality, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is building rain gardens, designed to absorb polluted storm water that would otherwise end up into the sewer system.

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Flood-resistant buildings: a concept-project for the city of New York

Flood-resistant buildings: a concept-project for the city of New York

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The proposed towers could survive 6ft(!) of sea level rise at Manhattan’s Pier 40

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Freshkills Park NY: Transforming the world’s biggest landfill site to a flourishing green space

Freshkills Park NY: Transforming the world’s biggest landfill site to a flourishing green space

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This newly thriving ecosystem may become a model for other places that have been irrevocably changed by human interference

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New York City major to ban glass skyscrapers with high greenhouse emissions

New York City major to ban glass skyscrapers with high greenhouse emissions

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Bill de Blasio, New York City major, has decided to ban the erection of energy inefficient glass skyscrapers in an effort to reduce the city's greenhouse emissions.

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Inergy Corp.'s LPG storage and distribution depot is being built in abandoned salt mines under Seneca Lake two miles north of the Village of Watkins Glen.

Liquid Petroleum Gas to Blame in Drinking Water Salinity?

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A recent report links high salinity in Seneca Lake, the largest of New York State’s Finger Lakes, to the storage of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) in nearby salt caverns. The lake, which holds 4.2 trillion gallons of water, has for decades seen levels of salt concentrations greater than those regulated by the state for sensitive populations such as infants and those on low-salt diets. The highest concentration, in the village of Waterloo, has concentrations nearly four times the state limit.

 

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