Category: Novel Floating Ideas
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The UN is supporting a design for a new floating city that can withstand Category 5 hurricanes
The United Nations just unveiled a concept for a floating city that can hold around 10,000 residents. The city is built to withstand natural disasters like floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The design comes from architect Bjarke Ingels and floating city builder Oceanix. At a roundtable on Wednesday, the UN said…
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Richart Sowa’s Island Made of Plastic Bottles
Man builds island out of plastic bottles. Richart Sowa lives on top of what most people just toss away. He collected more than 125,000 plastic bottles that he found in the trash and put them into recycled fruit sacks beneath wood palettes to make his own island right in the…
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Olympic-size pool proposal floated for Swan River
Group GSA has produced a proposal for an Olympic-size swimming pool floating on the Swan River in Perth that would be the first pool in the central city since the Perth City Baths were demolished in 1920. The design calls for a simple, relocatable barge containing the pool, timber decking,…
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Are floating cities an option to tackle space crunch in Singapore?
Floating cities could soon become a reality as planners try to come up with innovative ways to battle the space crunch. Could this happen in Singapore? Mr Lim Soon Heng, founder president of the Society of Floating Solutions and a fellow at the Institute of Maritime Engineering, Science & Technology,…
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BioHaven Floating Island
Take a look at a variety of BioHaven Floating Islands and learn how they can naturally clean your water. You will be amazed at what they can do! To learn more about these floating wetlands, please go to our website at www.floatingislandsolutions.com.
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Unbelievable Floating Architectural Structures
Human habitations have changed form and style in congruence with the evolution of mankind. Our immediate challenge in terms of physical space due to rising shortage of land has led us once again to the threshold of redefining our dwelling. Here are some of the most interesting floating structures, a…
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Beirut International Floating Island Presentation
Dr. Abdullah Daou Chairman of Beirut International Marine and commerce and founder of The Advanced Engineering of the Floating Island Said ” I found that its true there are no rules and no theories to build floating islands, so I had to work 15 years to change the rules and…
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Floating homes, parks, facilities – a reality in Singapore that’s closer than you think?
SINGAPORE: Urban life on floating structures at sea is no longer something more likely to be found in science fiction, with experts estimating that large scale platforms could be a reality in less than a decade. This comes as floating homes, storage facilities and even parks have been mooted as…
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Making waves in offshore engineering, renewable energy and seafood production
A team of University of Queensland researchers will join forces with 40 other organisations to form a new cooperative research centre (CRC), set to improve Australian seafood and offshore renewable energy production. The Blue Economy CRC is a $329 million research project, which will combine seafood, renewable energy and offshore…
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‘Floating forest’ could protect vulnerable shorelines
A team of civil engineers has invented and patented a “floating forest” they say is capable of reducing wind and wave damage during a natural disaster. University of Queensland researcher Professor Chien Ming Wang said the invention could prevent beach erosion and protect coastal infrastructure and floating assets such as…