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  Floating solar farms are being built in growing numbers around the world. They’re particularly popular in Asia, according to U.S. space agency NASA, which has photographed one of the world’s biggest floating solar farms from space. The 320-megawatt Dezhou Dingzhuang Floating Solar Farm in China’s Shandong province was built as part of a drive…

  The Water Replenishment District of Southern California’s Albert Robles Recycling and Environmental Learning (ARC, formerly the Ground Water Reliability Improvement Project) is a 5.2 acre advanced water treatment facility campus. Located on the west bank of the San Gabriel River in Pico Rivera, the Water Replenishment District of Southern California’s Albert Robles Center for Recycling and…

It’s a logical assumption that having an intelligent layout for your facility can only be beneficial for the employees’ safety. The design and thinking behind a layout contribute much to how safe a workplace will be. WorkSafe Victoria in Australia states, “One of the best ways to prevent injuries and fatalities in the workplace is…

  Research shows that access to sunlight during the day has myriad benefits for the health and wellness of building occupants. While daylighting has the power to reduce a building’s energy cost, its role in the conservation of energy has been diminished. When compared to incandescent lamps, energy efficient LED lamps use less electricity and…

Industry insights: Julianne Laue: As an industry, we have lots of smart people and we have great products and great installers and great, amazing teams of experts. Our clients love the fact and love that there’s a choice, but that’s to them. That makes it easy, selecting the team to perform the work. But they…

As climate change churns on beyond even worst-case-scenario predictions, drought continues to be pervasive in the U.S. By late July, more than 51 percent of the lower 48 states is classified to be in drought conditions, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System. That means more than 116 million people in the lower 48…