AIA Puerto Rico will host it’s annual meeting at Hotel La Concha Resort on October 18th and 19th in San Juan Puerto Rico. Amy Chester, Director of Rebuild by Design will provide the keynote on Saturday. Learn more at https://www.aiapr.com/
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The Jeresulem Post: Climate change is with us, whether we wish it or not. The entire globe is warming up accompanied by extreme weathers, the likes of which we have never experienced: floods, the melting of ice at the North and South poles, extra high temperatures in the 40s Celsius, forest fires. All of these, and
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Curbed: All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates are being planned for New York Harbor, and the lower tip of Manhattan may soon be extended 500 feet out into the
NYC WILL REMAKE THE EAST RIVER WATERFRONT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. IT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH Read More »
Patch: The massive storm protection project proposed for East River Park needs to be even taller than current plans call for, according to a consultant’s report released Thursday. Hans Gehrels, a third- party consultant hired by local politicians, says the city should consider adding two feet to its current storm protection plan, which calls for burying
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6sqft: Borough President Gale A. Brewer and Council Member Carlina Rivera announced Thursday the completed report by independent consulting firm Deltares on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR). As 6sqft previously reported, the project was first developed in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and is intended to protect 2.2 miles of Manhattan’s East Side, between East 25th Street
Rebuild’s Director Amy Chester will moderate the Nature Conservency’s panel examining the health of New York City’s coast lines in a climate changing world, and what this means for our future. Friday, October 11th David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center61 W 62nd St 8:00pm With rising seas and more frequent, intense storms on the horizon,
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Real Estate Weekly: Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan for the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project that will phase the reconstruction of East River Park and other open spaces so that access for local residents to large parts of the park can be maintained throughout the entire project. Nearly half of East River
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Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer and Council Member Carlina Rivera announced today the publication of the final report by independent consultant Deltares, hired for the review of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR) last month. In her Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP) recommendation, Brewer requested an independent environmental expert to review the ESCR Project
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CNBC: They are salty, sumptuous and often served opulently on ice. They are also now on the front lines in the fight to protect coastal real estate from climate change. Oysters — more precisely, oyster reefs. Oyster reefs are hard, natural barriers that protect shorelines from erosion, rising tides and increasingly severe storm surge. They knock
NJ.com: Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, former Mayor Dawn Zimmer and local officials broke ground on the Northwest Resiliency Park, Hoboken’s largest park. The mayor said the park, at 12th and Adams streets, will be “a national model for parks across the country,” combining open space needs and infrastructure to reduce flooding, Bhalla said. “When constructed, the
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