Is Shanghai’s Super Tower The World’s Greenest Building?

With Shanghai’s smog becoming an increasing detriment to the city’s population, the Shanghai Super Tower stands as a monument to “green” engineering. It has a “transparent second skin” – a double-glass façade, one of several green technologies that will reduce the building’s carbon footprint by 34,000 tons per year. In addition, “sky gardens” will filter “indoor air” helping to cool it, making one-third of the building an entirely “green space”. “The building will employ 43 sustainable technologies designed to reduce energy consumption by 21 per cent compared with a conventionally built equivalent.” For more on this incredible innovation in “green technology” click here: http://on.ft.com/1eW1PSF

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The Architect & Engineers News BriefMay 2014

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey claims to have achieved a major milestone in the construction of the new $3.44bn WTC Transport Hub. It features new lighting, speakers, illuminated signs, escalators, elevators, marble floors and a multicolored mosaic designed in Italy. For more info, click here: http://bit.ly/1krwm2L

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Engineers Help To Make The Battlefield a Safer Place

Forget Google Glass. The top engineers in the world are helping to make the American soldier a more efficient weapon in the war on terror with a new device: The Q-Warrior. This wearable helmet computer “provides soldiers with a high-resolution screen capable of showing a sophisticated but easy to understand intermix of video and symbols, layering information on their view of the battlefield.” For more info, click here: http://bit.ly/MID9Go

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