Category: Novel Floating Ideas

AARSLEFF BIZ Began production of 5 pieces of concrete floating pontoons in September 2018. Last pontoon was finished and set sail to Denmark in April 2019 5 pcs floating pontoons to produce • Bottom deck thickness 25cm, area 220m2 per one Rigger • External wall thickness 20cm • Internal wall…

Unwrapping Marina Bay Sands Apple store

World’s first floating Apple store to open ‘soon’ at Marina Bay Sands

Meet Spaceport City, a Floating Transportation Hub Concept for Space Travel     READ MORE

Boston Arcology Is a Climate Change-Ready Floating Mega-Structure

Powerhouse Company reveals floating off-grid office in Rotterdam

Floating library in Semarang

An indirect consequence of the disruption to global maritime trade from the coronavirus pandemic is the potential rise of non-indigenous species and their spread. These days, vessels are anchored for unusually long periods. Idle and waiting, vessels see the emergence of biofouling, resulting in the growth of ecosystems that can…

By some accounts, French Polynesia is heaven on Earth. It’s a collection of 118 tropical islands and atolls spread across a wide expanse of the Pacific. (Perhaps you’ve heard of Tahiti.) And yet, thanks to erosion, land subsidence, and sea level rise, parts of this paradise are threatened with sinking…

The Mega-Float, a very large offshore floating structure, is regarded as material for structuring of social capital in the new future. Experiments using an actual-scale model 1 000 m long were carrid out by Technological Research Association of Mega-Float under Director-General Kentaro Aikawa, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) Senior Corporate…