John Hennessy III,
P.E.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Infrastructure is the physical framework upon which the U.S. economy operates and the nation’s standard of living depends. Everything depends on this framework, including transporting goods, powering factories, heating and cooling office buildings, and enjoying a glass of clean water.
GRIST.orgBy: David Roberts You have probably heard by now that Congress has voted through a bill that will avert the absurdly named “fiscal cliff.” I’ll leave it to other blogs to get into the details. (Suzy Khimm has a nice rundown.) I’ll also leave it to others to lament the absurd way in which this […]
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In it’s relatively short life span (Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced it March 2012), the Chicago Infrastructure Trust has garnered it’s fair share of skepticism and awe. Check out what experts, journalists, and Mayor Emanuel himself, have to say on the newly formed Chicago Infrastructure Trust. “Sometimes if you want something done right, you’ve got to do […]
View this complete post...Lakehurst, NJ: Providing power after Hurricane Sandy from Fort Bragg, N.C. on Vimeo. Company B, 249th Engineer Battalion Soldiers receive generators in Lakehurst, N.J. The generators are part of the Hurricane Sandy relief effort. Soundbites from Capt. Michael Wiehagan and Sgt. 1st Class Barry Newman. Summit, NJ: Power Is On!! Hurricane Sandy Restoration in […]
View this complete post...Transportation Issues Daily Lloyd Brown has done it again, publishing another must-read story, “Five transportation stories that will shape the year ahead,” that gives us a serious case of envy. Here are the five issues, but you’ll have to read the transportation communication guru’s whole story here to learn why Brown picks these issues. Funding MAP-21 […]
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SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION & GTM RESEARCH
The U.S. market remains a rare bright spot in a difficult global solar environment this year. Although global installations should grow overall (GTM Research forecasts 18% global growth in 2012), manufacturer margins remain severely compressed as a result of persistent overcapacity.
Pennsylvania’s largest solar farm is taking shape in Lancaster County. By the time the field of solar panels begins producing electricity, 20,702 panels will be in place, each about 3 feet by 5 feet, covering some 30 acres.
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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCHA new era of transit development began in 1981 when San Diego, a city whose transit system contained only buses, opened its first regional light rail transit (LRT) line. Since then, 11 other U.S., previously bus-only metropolitan areas opened their own LRT lines.
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BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
Building energy use is responsible for about 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions. Residential buildings account for nearly half of those emissions, and more than 85 percent of residential emissions are attributable to the 79 million single-family homes nationwide. California is home to more than 10 percent of such properties—approximately 8.4 million. If we are truly going to achieve meaningful energy efficiency (EE) and carbon savings nationwide, we must transform the residential marketplace.
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