Construction

Floating Nuclear Power Plants Could Save Us from Meltdowns

Nuclear plants provide the large amounts of reliable and continuous electricity. Nuclear power reactors have a major environmental benefit – they do not emit the gases that contribute to global warming, acid rain, or urban…

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Caterpillar Sales Continue To Plummet…

As of the end of April, Caterpillar global sales are continuing to plummet with total international machine sales down 13%. Total machine sales in Asia are down 25%, which many people concede that Caterpillars’s Chinese competitors…

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China Plans 8000+ Mile High Speed Underwater Railway to America

China has developed some of the world’s largest architecture and most advanced technology but the country’s next project would be its biggest accomplishment yet. The Chinese government is in the planning stages of building an…

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Need Emergency Housing? Grab a Styrofoam Cup-Inspired House from the Stack.

More than 45 million people around the world are displaced from their homes each year due to natural disasters or armed conflict. Displacement leads to vulnerability, suffering, violence, sickness and sometimes death as people are…

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Child’s Play Produces Free 3D-Printed Universal Construction Kit for Legos, K’Nex and More

Free Universal Construction Kit Makes Lego Inter-Operable, Geeks Happy Patented in 1958, it is widely believed that Lego is on its last legs. Predictions are that 3D printers will make Lego obsolete. And Lego is…

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Drones Deliver a Coke and a Smile to Singapore Workers

Much of Singapore’s economy relies on over 1 million low-wage foreign laborers from the likes of China, India, and Bangladesh. These migrant workers are subject to tough working conditions and long hours typically revolving around…

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Washington to Boston High Speed Rail May Run on Japanese Maglev Technology

Not a Question of If but When Imagine a one hour train ride from Washington to Boston, a trip that currently takes seven hours by the fastest means available from Amtrak, just two hours less…

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Is This the Future of New York City’s Transit Hub?

Urban planners have long been advocating the benefits of building dense retail and housing complexes around public transportation hubs. To fully justify this idea, designers Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM have proposed a…

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Record-Breaking Banshee Roller Coaster Screams Up 4,124 Feet of Track with a Zero-G Roll

The $24 million Banshee Roller Coaster has only been open a few weeks but the tubular track of terror has already set the bar high for the other intense roller coasters set to debut this…

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Istanbul Grand Airport Set to Become the World’s Busiest Airport Terminal

Set to become the world’s busiest airport terminal, Instanbul Grand Airport will be located on the Black Sea coast and is scheduled for six-runway development. Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects for Instanbul…

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