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Piling Companies: Changing Building & How We Treat the Earth

January 22, 2016 5:48 pm

Changing the Landscape of Olympic Wastelands The remains of Olympic stadiums have received a lot of negative press.  In a 2014 Guardian article, an abandoned £7 billion Olympic venue in Athens is featured in some sobering photographs. Enormous single-use structures are being built and then abandoned: the result is money invested in a massive addition to our carbon imprint.  It’s no surprise that people have made entire art installations lamenting these wastelands.  Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 2004 at the height of their economy.  Ten years later the site seats and structural foundations are rotting in the ground.  What can be done? Photo Credit : Popular Mechanics http://bit.ly/1lex1qu The Changing Landscape of Building Innovations have already begun to change...

Piling Companies: Changing Building & How We Treat the Earth

January 22, 2016 5:48 pm

Changing the Landscape of Olympic Wastelands The remains of Olympic stadiums have received a lot of negative press.  In a 2014 Guardian article, an abandoned £7 billion Olympic venue in Athens is featured in some sobering photographs. Enormous single-use structures are being built and then abandoned: the result is money invested in a massive addition to our carbon imprint.  It’s no surprise that people have made entire art installations lamenting these wastelands.  Athens Olympic Stadium was built in 2004 at the height of their economy.  Ten years later the site seats and structural foundations are rotting in the ground.  What can be done? Photo Credit : Popular Mechanics http://bit.ly/1lex1qu The Changing Landscape of Building Innovations have already begun to change...