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Mad Architects designs “Train Station in the forest” in Jiaxing, China Mad Architects’ train station located in a forest in Jiaxing, eastern China, is due to be completed by July 2021. Construction on the 35ha project in central Jiaxing began in 2019, and includes two plazas and a renovation of the adjacent People’s Park. The Beijing-based firm’s design includes a full-scale replica of Jiaxing’s historic 1907 train station, reconstructed from archival studies, with a new station built underground.A “borderless park” with a canopy of trees will surround the station, offering shade for the plazas.Sunken courtyards will link the underground commercial...

Major affordable housing development starts in Santa Clara amid Silicon Valley homelessness Construction is underway on the first all-affordable housing development to go up in an industrial area that is set for revitalisation in the city of Santa Clara, California. Its construction costed at close to $100m, the complex, called St. Anton Tasman, located at 2233 Calle Del Mundo, will have 196 studio and one-bedroom units, of which some 20% are for very low-income tenants (50% Area Median Income) with 80% designated for low-income tenants (60% Area Median Income). It is regulated to stay as affordable housing for at least...

New regulator established to ensure construction materials are safe New national construction products regulator set up to ensure homes are built from safe materials. Published 19 January 2021 National regulator established to ensure homes are built from safe materials Action taken as Grenfell Inquiry reveals manufacturers ignored safety rules Independent review will examine faults in the system and recommend how abuse can be prevented Residents will be protected through the establishment of a national regulator which will ensure materials used to build homes will be made safer, the Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced today (19 January 2021). The regulator...

New Smart Home Device Controls Energy at the Edge Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering A mixed neighborhood of houses with solar and houses without designed and tested in a computer simulation by Texas A&M researchers to test a new smart energy device. Open circles denote nodes where homes have the PINE device and its related systems. Dark, filled circles are nodes where homes do not have PINE. All homes receive energy from the grid. A device developed at Texas A&M helps improve energy delivery between solar-powered homes and the electricity grid. Elizabeth Montalbano | Sep 15, 2020 Researchers have developed a...

Air Cleaning Blowers (ACBs) ACBs Filter and Clean Air by Removing Dust and Germ Particles without the use of Any Filter Media.   Highland, NY:  Today Air Cleaning Blowers, LLC, a quickly growing family-owned business, is working diligently to help control the spread of germs during this current pandemic. Thirty-five years ago, the owner began his own business and has been marketing and manufacturing industrial HVAC products ever since. Over the years he found a growing need for some type of filter-less air filter but found no one that made anything similar. In the past several years his company developed and...