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Kumho wins IDEA Awards for ground-breaking airless and hybrid tyres
Kumho wins IDEA Awards for ground-breaking airless and hybrid tyres Kumho’s next generation e-NIMF and e-TOPS tyres have been honoured with 2020 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). Having already received iF and Red Dot accolades in February and March respectively, the company now has the...
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Centurion and the Headway brain injury association promote Hard Hat Awareness Week
Centurion and the Headway brain injury association promote Hard Hat Awareness Week Construction sites without the correct protection can potentially be very dangerous places, especially when it comes to head injuries. This is why Headway – the brain injury association and leading safety manufacturer...
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Suicide rate for construction workers in the UK is over three times the national average
Suicide rate for construction workers in the UK is over three times the national average Working in the construction industry is one of the deadliest professions in the UK, but not because of the dangers of heavy machinery; the suicide rate for construction workers is more than three times the natio...
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Wirtgen W 380 CRi recycling train goes full-depth in South Carolina
Wirtgen W 380 CRi recycling train goes full-depth in South Carolina In the United States, a Wirtgen recycling train rehabilitated a highway at a depth of 20 cm in a single pass and without blocking the flow of traffic. In the process, the new W 380 CRi demonstrated its unmatched capabilities. The fo...
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Hitachi Construction Machinery celebrates seven decades of innovation
Hitachi Construction Machinery celebrates seven decades of innovation 2020 marks a very special year for Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (HCM), as it marks seven decades since the start of full-scale production of its iconic excavators. Ever since the first mechanical excavator – the U05 –...
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RSTA encouraging adoption of a well-trained and competent highways workforce
RSTA encouraging adoption of a well-trained and competent highways workforce The need for a well-trained and competent highways workforce has never been higher as the impact of budgetary cutbacks, maintenance backlogs and extreme weather takes an ever increasing toll on the local road network. With...
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Ferrovial sells stakes in two Portuguese PPP roads to DIF Capital Partners for €171m
Ferrovial sells stakes in two Portuguese PPP roads to DIF Capital Partners for €171m Ferrovial has reached an agreement, through its toll-road subsidiary Cintra, to sell its 49% stake in the Norte Litoral availability-based PPP road and its 48% stake in the Via do Infante availability-based PPP road...
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Sandvik Digital Driller training simulator enables learning anywhere, anytime
Sandvik Digital Driller training simulator enables learning anywhere, anytime Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is introducing a new version of its operator training simulator to safely train underground drill operators or maintenance teams. The new Digital Driller™ family – which now...
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Minnich 50 CC backpack Vibrator named in Top 50 New Products in Equipment Today
Minnich 50 CC backpack Vibrator named in Top 50 New Products in Equipment Today The Minnich Manufacturing 50 cc gas-powered back pack concrete vibrator has been named to Equipment Today’s 2020 list of Contractors’ Top 50 New Products. Superior comfort and reliable performance make the Minnich back p...
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INVERS introduces CloudBoxx Mini for IoT Micromobility
INVERS introduces CloudBoxx Mini for IoT Micromobility INVERS has optimised its proven telematics solution for mopeds, kick scooters and e-bikes with the small, light and efficient CloudBoxx Mini. Operators of shared mobility services, in particular those with two and three-wheeler fleets, can now b...
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Institute of Quarrying announces Martin Riley appointed as President
Institute of Quarrying announces Martin Riley appointed as President Martin Riley FIQ, senior vice-president of Tarmac, has been appointed the 69th President of the Institute of Quarrying (IQ), taking over from previous president Phil Redmond FIQ. The new President was officially confirmed at the In...
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Hyundai accelerating Urban Air Mobility test flights at Incheon Airport
Hyundai accelerating Urban Air Mobility test flights at Incheon Airport Hyundai Motor Company is partnering with Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC), Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. and KT Corp. to accelerate the development of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and work together to conduct...
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Headway urging cyclists to wear a helmet as UK Government kickstarts a cycling revolution
Headway urging cyclists to wear a helmet as UK Government kickstarts a cycling revolution Headway, the brain injury association has relaunched its campaign to encourage people to wear cycle helmets after the government announced ambitious plans to boost cycling rates. The leading brain injury charit...
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one.network launches Traffic Management Platform in US
one.network launches Traffic Management Platform in US one.network, a leading software company specializing in traffic disruption and mapping technologies, announced today that it is launching in the US. The revolutionary traffic management platform is already in use by over 95% of road agencies in...
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Team Penske and Stratasys delivering 3D Printing to NASCAR and INDYCAR Racing
Team Penske and Stratasys delivering 3D Printing to NASCAR and INDYCAR Racing In Team Penske’s 53-year history, over 500 victories have proven that speed doesn’t just matter when the green flag drops. It’s equally precious in the days leading up to every race. Stratasys announced a new multi-year te...
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Blackstone Technology develops 3D printed solid-state batteries
Blackstone Technology develops 3D printed solid-state batteries Blackstone Resources AG has announced that it has achieved a series of important milestones for its proprietary 3D-printing technology to print lithium ion solid-state batteries. The company has been investing in the next generation of...
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Prüftechnik ShaftAlign Touch Laser system enables quick alignment
Prüftechnik ShaftAlign Touch Laser system enables quick alignment Prüftechnik, a division of Fluke Reliability, introduces the ShaftAlign Touch laser alignment system, a new digital solution that exceeds the capabilities of conventional tools and delivers greater speed and accuracy. The user-friendl...
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Sir Robert McAlpine revealing Underground Highway Assets with MGISS Technology
Sir Robert McAlpine revealing Underground Highway Assets with MGISS Technology The latest surveying technology from Mobile GIS Services (MGISS) is helping Sir Robert McAlpine (SRM) transform the management of both underground and over ground highway and utility assets. The pioneering work being unde...
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VolvoCE extends range and reach with new EW200 Material Handler
VolvoCE extends range and reach with new EW200 Material Handler Aimed at the waste handling segment, VolvoCE launches the all-new EW200E Material Handler. In addition, its bigger brother, the EW240E Material Handler, has been updated with a new, longer straight boom. Designed and manufactured at the...
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Tactile Mobility and leading OEM agree deal to bring Tactile Sensing Tech to vehicles
Tactile Mobility and leading OEM agree deal to bring Tactile Sensing Tech to vehicles Leading tactile data and virtual sensing technology company Tactile Mobility has announced a commercial partnership to embed Tactile Mobility’s software technology into the BMW Group’s next-generation vehicles on a...
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Leading property consultancy launches DCW Insights app for project identification
Leading property consultancy launches DCW Insights app for project identification Dean Ward, Managing Director of the DCW Group has launched DCW Insights, an innovative and automated project identification app. With a built-in due diligence checker and a comprehensive suite of wider management and i...
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ArcelorMittal introduces innovative TL-5 steel centre median safety barrier
ArcelorMittal introduces innovative TL-5 steel centre median safety barrier ArcelorMittal Global Research and Development, working in cooperation with U.S. safety barrier manufacturer Gregory Industries, has brought to market a proprietary, high-containment steel centre median safety barrier for use...
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The British Construction Industry – opportunity and optimism
The British Construction Industry – opportunity and optimism Large business failures, the uncertainty of Brexit, and a global pandemic – it’s not been an easy time for the construction industry in recent times. But, are better days on the way? While lockdown restrictions are eased and the sec...
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Helsinki co-hosts immersive virtual conference using cutting edge gaming technology
Helsinki co-hosts immersive virtual conference using cutting edge gaming technology The cities of Helsinki and Tallinn are hosting the third World Summit on Digital Built Environment, WDBE, for experts in the field of urban development. Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the WDBE is partnering with Epic Ga...
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EIB approves €12.6 billion for transport, clean energy and urban development
EIB approves €12.6 billion for transport, clean energy and urban development The European Investment Bank (EIB) today approved €12.6 billion of new financing for projects across Europe and around the world. New financing agreed today includes more than €3.1 billion of COVID-19-related investment to...
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Niagara XL-Class Vibrating Screens produce up to 15000 tons per hour
Niagara XL-Class Vibrating Screens produce up to 15000 tons per hour Haver & Boecker Niagara offers the Niagara XL-Class vibrating screen, which combines advanced exciter drive technology with a wide body to offer producers high-capacity screening action at up to 15,000 tons per hour. The XL-Cla...
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Galaxy Motion formed to help automotive industry embrace energy-efficient metals
Galaxy Motion formed to help automotive industry embrace energy-efficient metals Galaxy Magnesium has partnered with Panoz Engineering to form a new subsidiary company, Galaxy Motion. With access to twenty percent of the world’s supply of magnesium, as well as the mining and refining resources neces...
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Webtec releases new How To Training Video Series for Hydraulic Engineers
Webtec releases new How To Training Video Series for Hydraulic Engineers Sharing knowledge and helping to educate engineers in the hydraulics and fluid power industry is important to Webtec. The release of a new series of ‘how to’ training videos aims to cover some of the fundamentals in hydraulics...
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Western Sydney International Airport releases contractor shortlist
Western Sydney International Airport releases contractor shortlist The vision for Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport is a step closer to reality with three parties shortlisted to build the airport’s passenger terminal. Western Sydney Airport CEO Simon Hickey said the integrated...
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Bosch develops Tango virtual companion to increase truck driving safety
Bosch develops Tango virtual companion to increase truck driving safety Trucks are the mainstay of logistics. In Germany, three-quarters of all goods are transported by road. Time pressure, long working hours, and monotonous convoys are part and parcel of the truck driver’s everyday routine. If the...
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Best practice for Automated Lane Keeping Systems and the new regulations
Best practice for Automated Lane Keeping Systems and the new regulations With less than six months until the new UN regulations on Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) are enabled, automakers are preparing for a new ‘common rulebook’ for Level 3 automation of vehicles. But with an international sta...
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Snøhetta wins Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Competition
Snøhetta wins Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Competition Following an extensive selection process, Snøhetta has been unanimously selected as Design Architect for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Based in the North Dakota Badlands, the 15th American Presidential Library will shar...
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MIT invents completely flat ultra-wide angle fisheye lens
MIT invents completely flat ultra-wide angle fisheye lens To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lenses — ultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort incoming light to produce wide, bubble-like images. Their spherical, mu...
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Drones and planes could share the same sky with Altitude Angel Drone Zone
Drones and planes could share the same sky with Altitude Angel Drone Zone The Thames Valley to the west of London will be the site of what is expected to be the world’s first commercial ‘super-highway’ drone corridor in open and unrestricted airspace according to plans submitted to the UK’s Civil Av...
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Meet the new Metrac H75 from REFORM
Meet the new Metrac H75 from REFORM The REFORM Metrac is a versatile hillside implement carrier that has been used with great success in mountainous and municipal technology for more than 5 decades. Versatility in every season, extreme slope capability and high economy forms the basis for its lastin...
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Commercial Recycling upgrades with a Volvo EW240E Material Handler
Commercial Recycling upgrades with a Volvo EW240E Material Handler As part of its ongoing replacement regime, Commercial Recycling (Southern) Ltd has updated most of its VolvoCE equipment for new models at the company’s Canford recycling facility including, for the first time, a new Volvo EW240E Mat...
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World Bank funds $130.8m road infrastructure upgrade in Uganda’s West Nile sub-region
World Bank funds $130.8m road infrastructure upgrade in Uganda’s West Nile sub-region The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a grant of $130.8 million from the International Development Association (IDA) to ease the movement of goods and people and improve access to social services a...
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MOVE Asia 2020 highlights the challenges for shared mobility
MOVE Asia 2020 highlights the challenges for shared mobility Right after the MOVE America event, INVERS, the inventor of automated vehicle sharing, led a panel discussion of MaaS and the business model of Shared Mobility on the opening day of the MOVE Asia Summit on September 8th. Titled Growing pai...
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Eaton expands remanufacturing program to include Electric Clutch Actuators
Eaton expands remanufacturing program to include Electric Clutch Actuators Power management company Eaton today announced its Vehicle Group is expanding its remanufacturing program to offer remanufacturing of electronic clutch actuators used on Eaton UltraShift® PLUS transmissions. Eaton remanufactu...
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AECOM secures Saudi Arabia backbone infrastructure design role for visionary NEOM region
AECOM secures Saudi Arabia backbone infrastructure design role for visionary NEOM region AECOM, a world leading infrastructure consulting firm, has been appointed to design transport and utilities backbone infrastructure for NEOM, a new model for urbanization and sustainability located in the northw...
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LiquidPiston aircraft electrification enables drone flight duration and fuel efficiency
LiquidPiston aircraft electrification enables drone flight duration and fuel efficiency LiquidPiston, Inc., developer of advanced rotary internal combustion engines for diesel and jet fuels, today announced it received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the U.S. Army for...
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Apple shows off 8th gen iPad with A12 Bionic with Neural Engine for huge performance jump
Apple shows off 8th gen iPad with A12 Bionic with Neural Engine for huge performance jump Apple® today introduced the eighth-generation iPad®, featuring the powerful A12 Bionic chip that brings the Neural Engine to the entry iPad for the first time. Starting at just $329, the upgrade packs even more...
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ARC 18th India Virtual Forum focuses on Digital Transformation in Industries and Cities
ARC 18th India Virtual Forum focuses on Digital Transformation in Industries and Cities ARC’s 18th India Forum titled Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities on September 8-9, 2020 was a virtual event and attracted over 300 delegates. For the last several years, the core theme across a...
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Esri publishes book about Web GIS featuring the latest advances in ArcGIS
Esri publishes book about Web GIS featuring the latest advances in ArcGIS Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication of a new book by popular geographic information system (GIS) technology author Pinde Fu, Getting to Know Web GIS, Fourth Edition. As a promising...
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Metabo HPT unveils The Tank 200 PSI High Capacity Pancake Compressor
Metabo HPT unveils The Tank 200 PSI High Capacity Pancake Compressor Metabo HPT today announced The Tank™ – the industry’s first 200 PSI High Capacity Pancake Compressor (model EC914S). With class leading PSI, this lightweight compressor packs 25% more pressure into a smaller body. It i...
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Bentley Systems announces Finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards Program
Bentley Systems announces Finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards Program Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the finalist...
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Monaco Solicitors guide to the Coronavirus and employee rights in the UK
Monaco Solicitors guide to the Coronavirus and employee rights in the UK There have been unprecedented impacts on employees’ rights in the UK during this coronavirus pandemic, including the right to health and safety and the right to be paid. If your employer has cut your pay because you have refuse...
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Fluor JV starts construction of LAX Aerial Guideway Automated People Mover
Fluor JV starts construction of LAX Aerial Guideway Automated People Mover Fluor Corporation announced today that the Fluor-led joint venture LAX Integrated Express Solutions (LINXS) Constructors placed concrete for the first segment of the cast-in-place aerial guideway span for the Automated People...
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GEOBIM 2020 Virtual Conference open for Registration
GEOBIM 2020 Virtual Conference open for Registration Registration is now open for the GEOBIM 2020 virtual conference on 3rd-4th December for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry professionals. The GEOBIM conference is a unique platform for the AEC industry, policy makers, and in...
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Highways England restores milestones in £5.2m environment improvements
Highways England restores milestones in £5.2m environment improvements Highways England has reached a major milestone in a £5.2 million programme of environmental improvements across the North West – by restoring actual historic milestones. The company, which runs the country’s motorways and m...
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World’s longest airside bridge lifted by Mammoet at Hong Kong International Airport
World’s longest airside bridge lifted by Mammoet at Hong Kong International Airport Mammoet has successfully assisted Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) to create a new panoramic point with the installation of its Sky Bridge –the world’s longest airside bridge. This pedestrian bridge spann...
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Herbst Tiefbau switches to Hyundai with a new HL955A wheel loader
Herbst Tiefbau switches to Hyundai with a new HL955A wheel loader Herbst Tiefbau is a civil engineering business run by Christian Herbst and his six-man professional team – the company operates in Epfach, which is one of the most beautiful landscapes in Germany. “Your civil engineering partner in t...
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Sandvik and Macleod Construction celebrating 20 year partnership
Sandvik and Macleod Construction celebrating 20 year partnership MacLeod Construction Ltd may have been founded on traditional house building values, but it has successfully embedded modern construction and quarrying practices into its operations. Based in Lochgilphead, the multi-faceted company are...
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New Cat D9 Dozer delivers on efficiency with lower fuel and maintenance costs
New Cat D9 Dozer delivers on efficiency with lower fuel and maintenance costs The new Cat® D9 Dozer replaces the D9T model and offers customizable configurations to meet application needs around the world. Built on a legacy of longevity and proven reliability in the field, the new Cat D9 lowers over...
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Esri releases Guidebook for Advanced Python Scripting in ArcGIS Pro
Esri releases Guidebook for Advanced Python Scripting in ArcGIS Pro Esri, a leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication of a new book, Advanced Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro by Dr. Paul A. Zandbergen. Most GIS jobs today require at least some experience in programming, and Pyt...
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Bosch deploys traffic video sensor technology in America’s first Smart City
Bosch deploys traffic video sensor technology in America’s first Smart City Peachtree Corners is the US’s first smart city environment powered by real-world infrastructure and next-generation connectivity – today announced its strategic collaboration with the Bosch Building Technologies divisi...
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British businesses are potentially missing out on over £70k of innovation credits
British businesses are potentially missing out on over £70k of innovation credits Evidence suggests that more awareness is needed of the range of applications for R&D tax credits in the UK logistics industry. With HMRC data revealing that the sector made up 0.9% of UK R&D tax credit claims,...
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MOVE AMERICA finds optimism for the future of MaaS and Shared Mobility
MOVE AMERICA finds optimism for the future of MaaS and Shared Mobility On the opening day of the MOVE AMERICA Summit, INVERS, the inventor of automated vehicle sharing, gave its insights into the future of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and Shared Mobility as a guest on a panel of experts and as a hos...
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Earthquake-proofing Japan’s bridges with Liebherr 42 K.1/J fast-erecting cranes
Earthquake-proofing Japan’s bridges with Liebherr 42 K.1/J fast-erecting cranes Five 42 K.1/J cranes are working on the construction of a motorway bridge close to Mount Fuji in the south east of Japan. The Shin (New) - Tohmei Expressway connects the city of Toyoda with Japan’s capital Tokyo. B...
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What is a Sustainable City?
What is a Sustainable City? Imagine a city with buildings run on solar power and thriving biodiversity, with no smog lingering in the air and more cyclists than cars. While this vision may look different than many cities today, a movement known as sustainable cities is working to make it a reality....
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