Posts Tagged ‘Infrastructure’

Infrastructure TIGER (no, not that Tiger)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Fast Company has a great new graphic describing the new TIGER infratstructure plans (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery).

There was a time when infrastructure spending was going to be a large part of the economic recovery, and that time may have finally arrived. Here we offer a sample of several of .Read more...

Haiti’s Poor Infrastructure History Accentuates a Bad Sitaution

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Henry Fountain from the New York Times looks at Haiti’s infrastructure past to explain the devastation:

Engineers and architects who have worked in or visited Haiti say that substandard design, inadequate materials and shoddy construction practices likely contributed to the collapse of many buildings in the earthquake that struck Tuesday.

Cameron Sinclair, .Read more...