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New York City MTA releases 20-Year Needs Assessment plan. sans price tag

Archinect

trillion worth of transit infrastructure, and details which equipment planners believe most urgently needs fixing over the next two decades. The findings were published in advance of a five-year construction phase that begins in 2025, though an exact price tag for the slate of fixes has yet to be established by the agency.

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Nowhere fast: California's High Speed Rail project is now twice the size of its originally proposed budget

Archinect

The project’s price tag has steadily risen since voters first approved nearly $10 billion in bond money for it in 2008, when the total cost was pegged at $40 billion. The additional need for money stems from necessary sound barrier upgrades and repositioning of the train away from the Central Valley’s Cesar E.

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The Resilient Construction Imperative in the Face of Climate Change

Santa Cruz Architect

Coastal regions are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels, posing a threat to millions of people and billions of dollars in infrastructure. Hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, among other disasters, can cause extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure, leading to not only economic losses but also loss of life.

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Economic impacts of climate change will jump over next two decades

BD+C

Coastal property and infrastructure will bear the brunt of the damage. This will bring annual price tag for hurricanes and other coastal storms to $35 billion. billion, according to a new report by the Risky Business Project. When hurricanes are factored in, that tab will rise to $7.3 billion, the report says.

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Twitter just launched NFT profile pictures

Brandon Donnelly

Broadly speaking, the more infrastructure that gets built out around NFTs, the more value they will have. Here’s the stuff I’m tagged in. What Twitter just did is a step in that direction. I think bringing NFT collections to our social media profiles is, for example, a perfectly obvious extension. Here are my photos.

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Happenings

SW Oregon Architect

The price tag, which reflected the suite of improvements necessary to entirely satisfy the City’s strict criteria, was steep. I still believe the infrastructure of American transportation and energy systems must be radically altered to accommodate new, healthier types of transportation and vehicle use.

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The Skatepark // Lukstudio

Architizer

An upper rail with plug-in tag allows easy display change. While the massive ramps convey a park infrastructure, these minimal structures represent the adaptability and improvisation of skaters.A Lukstudio. © Lukstudio. The pole-and-rail kits integrate LED lighting and can be doubled to support shelves. © Lukstudio. © Lukstudio.

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