Category: Members’ Feature Articles
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The Floating Towns of Tomorrow: Urban Planning Solutions to Challenges in Coastal Communities (by Lim Soon Heng, Daniela Procopio, and Giuseppe Torrisi)
View the book here: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-0279-2 About the book: Issues such as climate change, energy crises, population growth and the increasing concentration of residents in urban areas are the challenges of the future, and some solutions to these challenges are already on the way. New plans for floating cities are one…
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EARTH’S AMPHIBIOUS TRANSFORMATION: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present)
EARTH’S AMPHIBIOUS TRANSFORMATION: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present) Stefan Huebner Climate change and rising sea levels, which threaten many Asian and other coastal cities, have returned the question of adaptation to unstable marine surfaces to the global discussions about urbanization, as was illustrated…
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EARTH’S AMPHIBIOUS TRANSFORMATION: URBANIZING ASIA’S SEAS
EARTH’S AMPHIBIOUS TRANSFORMATION: URBANIZING ASIA’S SEAS Stefan Huebner Coastal cities have for decades been finding ways to cope with floods, storm surges, subsidence and other disasters, which are worsening with climate change. As Stefan Huebner of the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore writes, instead of focusing only…
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Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances (Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, 3)
Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances (Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, 3) Wang Chien Ming This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual designs. This compilation of key floating structures in a single volume captures the innovative features that mark the…
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S’pore is shipshape for floating cities
Singapore is shipshape for floating cities Lim Soon Heng [pdf-embedder url=’https://floatingsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Singapore-is-shipshape-for-floating-cities-Opinion-News-Top-Stories-The-Straits-Time.pdf’] The recent announcement by Keppel Corp chief executive Loh Chin Hua that it is exploring how to develop a floating city for Singapore is heartening. Speaking about how the private sector can work with governments to address issues like…
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Transitioning from Fossils to Nuclear Safely and Affordably
Transitioning from Fossils to Nuclear Safely and Affordably Lim Soon Heng A presentation at the Institute of Marine Engineering Science Annual Conference on July 1, 2021 by Lim Soon Heng, Senior Advisor and Founding President of the Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore) [pdf-embedder url=’https://floatingsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Copy-of-Lim-Conf21-IMarEST.pdf’]
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Multipurpose Platform and Co-location of Aquaculture & Wind Farms
Mutipurpose Platform and Co-Location of Aquaculture & Wind Farms
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Representative Transmission Coefficient for Evaluating the Wave Attenuation Performance of 3D Floating Breakwaters in Regular and Irregular Waves
Wave attenuation performance is the prime consideration when designing any floating breakwater. For a 2D hydrodynamic analysis of a floating breakwater, the wave attenuation performance is evaluated by the transmission coefficient, which is defined as the ratio between the transmitted wave height and the incident wave height. For a 3D…
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Combating climate change: can naval architects do more?
Engineers, in the ultimate analysis, are the culprits of climate change. The industrial revolution of the last 200 years has had the unintended consequences of polluting the world with greenhouse gas. True, engineers deserve credit for inventing the steam/gas turbine and the internal combustion engine but unwittingly they also have…
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Tackling Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Ecosystem Destruction: How US-Japanese Ocean Industrialization and the Metabolist Movement’s Global Legacy Shaped Environmental Thought (circa 1950s–Present)
Over the past decade, experts have discussed the offshore technologies so closely associated with accelerating climate change—namely, offshore oil and gas drilling—as tools for climate action, as was the case at a United Nations roundtable in April 2019. Such experts have frequently used offshore technologies for the construction of flood-resilient…