Category: Novel Floating Ideas
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Rather Than Importing Their Food, Coastal Cities Can Build Their Own Floating Farms—Like This One
This floating farm in the Netherlands is taking sustainability to a whole other water level. The food industry is responsible for producing massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions simply through transporting goods and produce into a city. In fact, one in four freight trucks on the highway is responsible for…
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Is Floating Architecture a Gimmick or a Serious Way to Address Sea Level Rise?
There is a whole lot of floating going on in the Netherlands. That is not surprising when you consider that 26% of the country is below sea level. But sometimes you have to wonder: is it a gimmick or is floating a serious way to address the challenges of sea…
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ASMI Leads Singapore’s Participation in Offshore Technology Conference
Singapore’s participation in the 2006 edition of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the largest international offshore oil and gas exhibition, was organised by ASMI at the request of International Enterprise (IE) Singapore. Singapore made its inaugural appearance in OTC in 2005 in a national pavilion led by IE Singapore. The…
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Living with Water: Lessons from Singapore and Rotterdam
Living with Water: Lessons from Singapore and Rotterdam documents the journey of two unique cities, Singapore and Rotterdam—one with too little water, and the other with too much water—in adapting to future climate change impacts. While the social, cultural, and physical nature of these cities could not be more different,…
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HDB Floating Wetlands
Inspired by the strong and lightweight organic form of honeycombs, the Housing & Development Board created hexagonal modules which could join together in a compact manner to form “floating spaces” on water bodies. The Floating Wetlands System is able to support the weight of plants, soil and maintenance workers, while…
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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.