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The Strata Building, First Skyscraper Using Power Turbine

The Strata or also known as The Razor. A skyscraper with a height of 148 meters and has 43 floors, as well as the world's first building with three wind turbines that would generate enough power to meet 8% of energy needs. Designed by BFLS (formerly Hamilton), is the tallest residential buildings in London and will be home to more than 1,000 penduduk.Strata is the first building that integrates directly into the facades of its turbines generate a 50MWh electricity per year. Developed and signed by Brookfield Europe.

General information

Location: Walworth Road, Southwark, London

Built :2007-2010

Use: Residential

Height: 148m

Technical Details

Floors: 43

The area: 306,000 sq ft / 255 000 sq ft NIA

Elevators: 4

Companies involved

Architect (s): BFLS

Structural engineer: WSP - Structural, M & E Engineer, AcousticConsultants and Fire Engineer

Contractor: Brookfield Construction

Developer: Brookfield Europe

Construction
This building was first proposed in 2005, construction began in2007 and completed in June 2010.Biaya estimated at 113.5 million pounds. The building was completed in June 2009. While theturbines installed in May 2010.

From 2011 Bus Transjakarta using GPS

Tracking or tracking system that will bebe appliedon bus Transjakarta 2011 . If already running, it is believed the net mass transport in the capital will be increasingly integrated.

Jakarta Transportation Agency head Udar Pristono justify tracking system on the busway be realized with the installation of Global Positioning System (GPS). "The bus mounted the GPS to be able to know the distance," said pris.

This system is believed to function to reduce passenger congestion at the stop-busway station. Establishments expect the application of this system can increase or distance headway between buses.

"In 2011 the system was established, and the monitoring center in Jakarta Affair," he said, Saturday, January 1, 2011.

Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo hoping tracking system will be used to improve the quality and comfort of the passengers on the busway.

"Operations will be equipped with control systems and tracking of the busway system. Headway and needs can be controlled," he said.

Operations Manager of the Public Service Board, Gunarjo, said, still needs improvement as a whole to increase the headway or distance between the bus.

"It depends on the readiness of BBG, had awakened her SPBG yet. Sterilization rotation needs to be addressed. If you want maximum, must be addressed thoroughly," he said.

Settling TransJakarta management will also be conducted. Transjakarta Public Service Board will change into the Regional-Owned Enterprises (enterprises), and separated from the Jakarta Transportation Agency.

In the future busway fare no longer be subsidized after-managed financial system. During this operation a lot rests on the budget TransJakarta Establishments.

Assistant Secretary for Economic Establishments, Hasan Basri said, the review status of this TransJakarta has been going on for six months.

During the design of the transfer, the TransJakarta will still impose the same thing, namely the old rates still apply.

Bicycle Clear Water Producing

Bicycles jenih water producer is named aquaduct, this bike is the one that won a contest Google's Innovate-or-die.
Aquaduct was created for the design given by IDEO (contest Winner Innovate-or-die '08)
The concept given this bike include transportation (as appropriate bicycle use) a filter and water storage as well.
"slogan given this bike is" Pedal your bike when he got home then you can drink clear water. "
Water capacity that can accommodate the bike is 8 litter water.

The design team were based on the fact that the "family of four needs about 20 gallons of water a day to meet basic needs -. drinking, cooking, washing and cleaning" So, here's how it works: people who collect water ride bikes to the source of water, and fill the tank 20 gallons. Then that person mengkayuh back home, "interesting peristaltic pump water from storage tank, through a filter to clean tank 2 gallon tank It could. Omitted and brought indoors. As more water is needed, the tank is replaced.

Aquaduct is an excellent example of technology, a term coined by British economist EF Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful: Economics As Though People important, to describe technologies that meet human needs at the local or regional level. In this case, skipped the meeting one of the most basic needs of all: clean drinking water. explains, "more than 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water and more than 5,000 children die every day due to water-related diseases." That is, if they find a way to mass produce their findings in a cost-effective, skipped to add most of the ideas and invention seeks to overcome the disease of poverty, and extreme hunger.

Road to Mill Road owned British nuclear submarine

BAE Systems Submarine Solutions is a subsidiary wholly owned by BAE Systems, based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and is responsible for the development and production of ship selam.Pabrik It operates one of only a few ships in the world capable of building ships nuclear submarine, which previously has created a submarine nuclear-powered Royal Navy since the commissioning of HMS Dreadnaught in 1963.

Shipyard Barrow-in-Furness also has built submarines since the first time with the Royal Netherlands Navy in this 1903.Perusahaan is building Astute class submarines, a new generation of nuclear attack submarines (SSN) for the Royal Navy, which first launched on June 8, 2007

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