Research and Markets have published China’s Wind Power Equipment Research Report 2008
Read the full report @ the SOURCE: China’s Wind Power Equipment Research Report 2008 - Market Research Reports - Research and Markets.
COULD Singapore spark the green revolution in China, a country recently named in a University of California report as the world’s “biggest polluter”?This possibility is being raised as the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City — the first collaboration of its kind between Singapore and Beijing since the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) in 1994 — takes off.
Using the lessons from the Housing and Development Board’s 48 years of experience, the planners have opted for a practical approach in the quest to convert the wetlands and rivers of the site — 150 km from Beijing — into a city that is the model of sustainable development.
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The best ideas of both countries will go into developing the 30-sq-km site into a living space for 350,000 residents in 10 to 15 years’ time, with schools, housing areas, commercial and industrial services.
Read more @ the SOURCE: TODAYonline – This eco-city to show the way By Zul Othman
zul@mediacorp.com.sg
Clean-tech investors, like those that swarmed the U.N. headquarters last week, have been drooling over investment prospects in suddenly-green China. Maybe it’s time to curb the enthusiasm.
“China expects local capital to fund 90 percent of the infrastructure and other investment needed to meet its goal to get 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020,” a top Chinese environmental official told Reuters at a climate-change shindig in Monaco (following Bali and Honolulu, yet another hardship destination for climate negotiators.)
China recently passed a renewable-energy law similar to the European Union’s that mandates a big increase in the use of clean energy like wind- and solar power over the next decade. And in China, a big percentage increase means a big increase: To make wind power 10% of the installed electricity capacity — an amount that the wind industry says is realistic – China needs to install 120 gigawatts of wind turbines. Perspective check: That’s more wind power than currently installed worldwide, or two entire Spains, or roughly 120 mid-sized nuclear plants.
Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : China: Going Green, Going It Alone.
Yuyuan Garden, a wellknown tourist attraction in downtown Shanghai, is lit with newly installed, energysaving lights last night. The garden area has just completed a major renovation program involving a total cost of nearly 90 million yuan (US$12.56 million). Part of the program was to install the new“green” lights, which will not only improve the lighting at night, but also cut power consumption by 40 percent. Built more than 400 years ago, Yuyuan Garden features botanical layouts and architectural styles typical in southern areas of the Yangtze River. It attracts millions of domestic and overseas tourists every year. —Shanghai Daily
Read more @ english.eastday.com.
This competition invites you stand on the shoulders of giants like Frank Gehry and gaze into the far reaches of imagination and technology. We challenge you to create the most awe inspiring architecture and landscape - to stretch the envelope of human experience and to dazzle the senses.
What we want.
Awe inspiring fusions of architecture and landscape – that simple. The emphasis is on imagination and artistic expression.
What we don’t want.
Technical marvels that are cold and devoid of artistic merit and beauty.Deliverables - Submitting your entry
One image per entry must be uploaded prior to March 10th 2008.Images must be 2560 x 1600 JPEG images – at least 90% JPEG quality.
Entrants must be members of CGTalk or CGSociety. The entry process will walk you through a free signup if you are not already registered.
NVArt - artspace | Architecture and Landscape
A second international airport is being planned in Beijing to ease traffic pressure, a top official with China’s civil aviation administration confirmed on Wednesday.
The Beijing Capital International Airport, the only international airport in the host city of the upcoming Olympics, will have no further significant expansions, said Yang Guoqing, deputy head of China’s General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC).
Yang told a press conference here that a new airport was necessary for Beijing and that the CAAC had submitted a report to the central government on site selection.
The airport, China’s busiest, handled 50 million passengers between January 1 and early December, putting it among the world’s 10 busiest airports.
2nd international airport in Beijing is confirmed – Xinhua News Agency
Part 1 by Pam Baker looking at different models of the future cities and talking about the practicalities of Hyperstructures,
Issues raised about building and maintaining Hyperstructures by the author and interviewees include:
– Fire Protection
– Waste Management
– Hydraulics and Maintenance
Baker also talks about Dongtan on Chongming Island near Shanghai and its future of 500,000 people and sustainable design
Technology News: Future Tech: Cities of the Future, Part 1: The Hyperstructure Concept.– Pam Baker
The second part of this series looks at City planning and Environment.
A good summary looks at the past and also the future of city planning and models for different continents based on population (Asia – Hypercites and America – architectural experimentation and knowledge societies)
Technology News: Future Tech: Cities of the Future, Part 2: If We Build Them, Will We Stay?.
Shanghai officials said a revised plan for the city’s magnetic levitation railway expansion will cost double the initial estimates as a result of new construction features intended to minimize the impact on local residents.
The revised route, avoiding densely populated areas, will run 31.8 kilometers, three kilometers shorter than previously planned, according to a statement issued by the city’s urban planning bureau.
The line extension will link two of the city’s airports.
Shanghai says maglev expansion to cost double initial estimates - Forbes.com.
Pecha Kucha 9 will kick off the new year we start with another Night of Inspiration:
PKN9!
DATE: Friday 18 January 2008
LOCATION: 407 Yi Shan Road
DOORS OPEN: 20:00
START PRESENTATIONS: 20:20
The planners of the Shanghai-Hangzhou magnetic levitation (maglev) rail project will design the proposed route to avoid residential buildings and lessen the impact of radiation upon people, according to a municipal government official.
“The maglev project has basically two environmental effects: noise and magnetic radiation,” said Zhang Quan, deputy director of the Shanghai Environmental Bureau.
A maglev train generates high levels of noise at speeds exceeding 200 kilometers per hour. “A possible solution for the noise problem may be slowing the train in downtown areas and speeding it up when it leaves urban districts,” said Zhang.
Approved by the central government in March 2006, the 175-km Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev rail project is estimated to cost 35 billion yuan (4.5 billion U.S. dollars). Trains will be able to reach a speed of 450 km per hour.
Shanghai maglev rail route may detour to avoid residences_English_Xinhua.
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