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Construction set to begin this month on Oregon State’s wave energy testing facility CORVALLIS, Ore. – After nearly a decade of work to obtain regulatory approval, Oregon State University is set to begin construction this month on a wave energy testing facility to be located about seven miles off the coast near Newport. PacWave South will be the first commercial-scale, utility grid-connected wave energy test site in the United States. The approximately $80 million facility will offer wave energy developers the opportunity to try different technologies for harnessing the power of ocean waves and transmitting that energy to the local...

Construction Scaffolding Crashes Down on Broadway Photo by Cecilia Barberot. A large section of scaffolding at a construction site on Broadway and 85th Street came down on Thursday morning, though it appears to have been fully caught by the sidewalk shed below. FDNY got a call about an “unstable facade” at 11:20 a.m. at 2330 Broadway, a spokesman said. Police said no one was injured in the incident. The site is expected to be a new senior living residence development. Update: The Department of Buildings told us the issue was with a “cocoon system” meant to safeguard the edge of...

An Innovative Staffing Company Helps An Overlooked Labor Pool Fill Construction Needs MaineWorks links people who face barriers to employment with construction companies that need ... [+] Joanne Arnold Margo Walsh knows the power of connections. She saw it for years in her work as a recruiter for a New York investment firm, a competitive field that had her visiting Ivy League schools and helping students envision their professional success. Now, she sees it as the leader of MaineWorks, an innovative staffing agency located in Portland, Maine. MaineWorks links people in recovery from substance abuse and reentry from jail or...

Wuchazi Bridge creates "infinite meandering path" over river in Chengdu Berlin-based architects Tom Wünschmann, Achim Kaufer, Wei Cai and Philipp Buschmeyer and Chinese design institutes SADI and JDTM have created a bridge that offers a variety of routes across a river in Chengdu, China. The design team created a continual walkable path within the Wuchazi Bridge as part of its aim to make the structure a recreational destination rather than a purely functional piece of engineering. "Our aim was to develop a bridge that is more than a monofunctional infrastructural element," Kaufer told Dezeen. "Together with the connecting shortcuts, an...

ABIBOO envisions cliff-face city as "future capital of Mars" Architecture studio ABIBOO has designed the concept for a self-sufficient city on Mars named Nüwa that could be built in 2054. Its architect explains the project to Dezeen. Set within a cliff on Mars, Nüwa was designed for non-profit organisation the Mars Society to be the first permanent settlement on Mars. The vertical settlement, which could eventually house 250,000 people, would be embedded into the side of a cliff and built using materials available on the planet. Mars city Nüwa would be built into a cliff ABIBOO founder Alfredo Munoz believes that building a permanent,...