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Boise's Orange Bag Plastics Could Be Coming To A Construction Project Near You Frankie Barnhill / Boise State Public Radio Since 2018, many Boise residents have dutifully filled special orange bags each month with hard-to-recycle plastics. Now, after months of waiting, those bags won’t be going back to Salt Lake-based Renewlogy as expected. The Hefty Energy Bag Program had worked to send Boise’s plastics to Renewlogy to be converted back into fuel, a process called pyrolysis, but the company was only able to break down the bags for a short time. Its equipment needed upgrades to handle the diversity of...

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...

Smart City Development Pushing Huge Shift In Construction Materials Multiple nations around the world are making massive investments in smart city mega projects. All of them contain elements meant to reduce pollution or produce power. As a result, researchers expect the demand for advanced green materials to skyrocket. A study by a technology market research company predicted a $400 billion market for the materials needed to construct the highly integrated smart cities of the future. Global Shift In City Planning Underway In places as diverse as South Korea, Singapore, New York City, Saudi Arabia, and Mumbai, both smart residential and...

Made By Pen Exhibition at Denfair 2.0 Ground-breaking Melbourne design company Made By Pen will be exhibiting at the innovative virtual Denfair 2.0 commencing Monday 20th July 2020. The message for this year’s Denfair is “The world has changed and so have we”, a very fitting motto for the professional design industry in the face of tough times. Made By Pen is renowned for cutting-edge, high-quality uncompromising modern design for homes and commercial spaces. This unique design team provides a spectrum of top quality. This year Made By Pen will show case extensions and adaptations of their core range. he company...