Designers give Brooklyn Bridge a sustainable makeover
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New York City – An international design competition to
reimagine how the iconic Brooklyn Bridge could be made more
accessible, safer and sustainable for pedestrians and
cyclists
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Plenty of space still available underground
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Zurich – Underground space is already being used for sewers,
tunnels and other infrastructure. Given the demand for
densification and urban growth, it could play an even
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Concrete innovation promises leaner structures
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Dübendorf – Scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for
Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have developed
self-pre-stressed concrete elements. Their innovation makes it
possible to build leaner structures
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Covid-19 forces rethink in urban planning
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Cologny GE – The epidemiologist Tolullah Oni from the
University of Cambridge is calling for a global Marshall Plan for
planetary health. She is among the Young
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Taxis turned into smart city sensors in China
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Pittsburgh – Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are
trialing a mobile sensing platform in the Chinese cities of
Shenzhen and Tianjin that places sensors on taxis. Their
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Administrative court thwarts innovation park
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Dübendorf ZH – Permission for the construction of the
Innovation Park Dübendorf has been refused in the planned form.
This was the ruling handed down by the
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World’s tallest Passive House building gets the green light
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Vancouver – The City of Vancouver has approved a rezoning
application, paving the way for construction of the tallest Passive
House building in the world. The 60-storey
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New dialogue and reporting tool launched to promote net-zero buildings
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Geneva – The World Business Council for Sustainable
Development has teamed up with industry partners to launch the
Building System Carbon Framework. Its aim is to help
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Shopping mall built with recycled building materials
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Samedan GR – Construction on the new Porta Samedan shopping
mall in the Engadine Valley in southeastern Switzerland is well
underway. The mall is being built with
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Switzerland in need of Alpine region development model
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Zurich/Lausanne – The key to the future development of the
mountainous half of the country lies in the large main valleys,
spatial planning expert Daniel Müller-Jentsch argues
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Swiss government offices get a sustainable new home
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Ittigen BE – Employees of the Swiss Federal Roads Office and
the Directorate of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy have a new
home on the UVEK
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Indian company recycles dust and plastic waste into construction bricks
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Vitthal Udyognagar – India-based Rhino Machines has developed
a sustainable construction brick made entirely from foundry dust
and plastic waste. Its ‘silica plastic blocks’ or SPBs can
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Online 'library' for construction materials opens for registrations
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Zurich – The Madaster platform aims to create an inventory of
all the resource-relevant data of buildings in order to demonstrate
their circular potential. Owners of real
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Bangkok transforms old railway into an urban park
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Bangkok – Thailand’s capital is opening a new urban park on an
abandoned railway. The project is designed to boost well-being for
city dwellers and to mitigate
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California devises program to cut building emissions
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Sacramento - California energy regulators are crafting a pilot
program with incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in new
residential buildings. It will initially focus on low-income
residential
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City of the future takes shape in Shenzhen
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Shenzhen – Global design firm NBBJ has won an international
competition to design Net City, a city of the future in Shenzhen,
China. The city is designed
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Helsinki seeks innovative heating solutions to fight global warming
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Helsinki – Two thirds of the world’s energy is consumed in
cities. Because bioenergy has several limitations, innovation is
needed to help cities decarbonise their heating systems,
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Construction designers provided with life cycle assessment method
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Freiburg - Vizcab has raised a total of 1.6 million euros as
part of a financing round. The start-up is working on a method for
the life
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Qatar to create sustainable floating hotels for World Cup
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Doha - Qatar is to create 16 sustainable floating hotels to
accommodate fans at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The sustainable
structures can be moved following the
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Energy zones to be defined in Zurich
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Zurich – The building and zoning regulations in the city of
Zurich are to be supplemented by energy zones. These areas will
feature mandatory quotas with regard
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