Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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Research from the University of Virginia and the universities of Michigan and Washington is the foundation of a startup company, PsiKick, that plans to manufacture the lowest-power wireless sensors in the world.
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While such designs rarely make the leap from blueprint to reality, the do serve to inspire generations of architects and planners.
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Proponents call it water recycling. Critics call it "toilet-to-tap." But as the drought has taken hold in California, opposition to the idea has been drying up, and recycled water is winning acceptance
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That's the year the U.S. will not have to import any more oil, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute highlights some of the progress that has resulted so far from the Better Buildings Initiative.
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The array of technologies and the staff time to make a home new zero is still out of reach for all but wealthy buyers.
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Swedish home goods giant Ikea Group is investing in its first wind farm in the U.S. that will produce enough energy to meet 18 percent of its electricity needs.
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15 billion barrels of recoverable oil is trapped in what's known as the Monterey Shale formation, which covers 1,750 square miles, roughly from Bakersfield to Fresno.
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The project will test the viability of harnessing the power of tides to harvest electricity.
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The Association of California Water Agencies issued a suite of far-reaching recommendations for improving management of groundwater basins throughout California.
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As the Highway Trust Fund runs low on cash, states come to the rescue with innovative funding initiatives
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An elevated viaduct near Madera will likely be one of the first major pieces of tangible construction for California's proposed high-speed rail line, with work potentially starting as early as next month.
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St. Louis Park, where new apartment and condo buildings sprout like weeds, may become home to a far more unusual development: a community powered by organic waste.
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Vehicles touted as a solution to climate change carry a hairspray-sized canister loaded with a chemical that significantly contributes to warming of the earth's climate.
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The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel.
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The occasion was a Clinton Global Initiative forum on public infrastructure focused on environmental sustainability and creative financing for public construction projects.
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A planned excavation of an old Alamogordo landfill has cleared a hurdle with the New Mexico Environmental Department.
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New incinerators appeal to cities looking to get rid of garbage and produce renewable power. But local leaders find it tough to weigh sparse evidence on health threats against public opposition.
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