Connecticut treatment plant integrates form and function

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Regional Water Authority (RWA) officials turned to the South Central Connecticut community with word that a new treatment plant was to be constructed at the century-old Lake Whitney. RWA officials have achieved that goal by gaining the trust of the community by essentially giving it the power to choose the design of the treatment plant.

Heavy construction, not elsewhere classified, Manufacturing and Industrial Building Construction, Industrial Nonbuilding Structure Construction, Plastic Products Plant Constr, Industrial Nonbldg Constructn NEC, Design and construction, Factories

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Calatrava unveils plans for New York residential tower

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Santiago Calatrava, the acclaimed architect, engineer and sculptor plans to build the tallest residential tower in New York city with a gaunt concrete core flanked on either side by a dozen glass cubes. However, the tower will be slender, housing only a few families.

Strategy & planning, Facilities & equipment, Planning, Architects, Buildings and facilities, Company business planning, Towers, Towers (Structures), Calatrava, Santiago, Structures (Construction)

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Explosions demolish century-old Virginia Dam

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Ten bays of the Embrey Dam, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, were demolished with hundreds of pounds of plastic explosives. The dam, the second-largest ever to be intentionally breached in the United States, had outlived its usefulness and was blocking migrating shad.

Wrecking & Demolition Work, Wrecking and Demolition Contractors, Wrecking and demolition work, Wrecking, Demolition, Dam failures

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