Planning the Flatlands Urban Industrial Park

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Along with the process of forming and developing industrial parks, the situation of land acquisition to serve the construction of industrial parks has been taking place across the country, especially in rural areas. Farming households whose land is acquired must cope with the change of resources to in their livelihoods and income. To develop industrial parks sustainably, for industrialization, it is necessary to pay adequate attention to the change of life and income of people who lost their land. In this study, we employed data collected from 280 households who have land acquired for industrial parks in the Mekong Delta. Binary Logistic regression model is applied to analyze the data to figure out 6 factors that affect income changes of the households. The factors include usage of compensation money for production and business investment after land acquisition, borrowing from formal financial institutions, having their employees working in the industrial parks, educational attainment of the head, dependency ratio and age of household head.

The "spatial pattern-wind environment-air pollution" within building clusters is closely interconnected, where different spatial pattern parameters may have varying degrees of impact on the wind environment and pollutant dispersion. Due to the complex spatial structure within industrial parks, this complexity may lead to the accumulation and retention of air pollutants within the parks. Therefore, to alleviate the air pollution situation in industrial parks in China and achieve the circular transformation and construction of parks, this study takes Hefei Circular Economy Demonstration Park as the research object. The microscale Fluent model in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to finely simulate the wind flow field and the diffusion process of pollutants within the park. The study analyzes the triad relationship and influence mechanism of "spatial pattern-wind environment-air pollution" within the park and studies the influence of different spatial pattern parameters on the migration and diffusion of pollutants. The results show a significant negative correlation between the content of pollutants and wind speed inside the industrial park. The better the wind conditions, the higher the air quality. The spatial morphology parameters of the building complex are the main influences on the condition of its internal wind environment. Building coverage ratio and degree of enclosure have a significant negative correlation with wind conditions. Maintaining them near 0.23 and 0.37, respectively, is favorable to the quality of the surrounding environment. Moreover, the average height of the building is positively correlated with the wind environment condition. The rate of transport and dissipation of pollutants gradually increases as the average building height reaches 16 m. Therefore, a reasonable building planning strategy and arrangement layout can effectively improve the wind environment condition inside the park, thus alleviating the pollutant retention situation. The obtained results serve as a theoretical foundation for optimizing morphological structure design within urban industrial parks.

Between 1972 and 1994, the US Army Corps of Engineers undertook five studies in New England evaluating the benefits and costs of protecting natural valley storage (NVS) areas—natural reservoirs—for flood mitigation. Only along the Charles River did benefits outweigh costs. Analysis of the studies finds that the costs of large-scale land acquisition will often exceed the sole benefits of avoided flood damages. To generate net benefits, there must be significant amounts of NVS lands still undeveloped, development pressure on those lands, and downstream areas that would sustain large damages. The NVS studies also raised questions of whether the Corps should be involved in land acquisition, and whether regulating land use could substitute for purchasing land. Note, these findings do not apply to other forms of natural flood-risk reduction, such as levee setbacks, green infrastructure for stormwater management, and multi-purpose projects, which have different economic and institutional contexts.

A new patented vibroseis acquisition method, Shake and GoSM, allows operation of multiple vibrators at multiple source points simultaneously and continuously with no waiting for between-sweep listening times or for between-vibrator slip times. This method allows for unsurpassed production rates. Model simulations, field gathers, and processed stacks are used to demonstrate excellent data quality compared to other high productivity methods. The cost of vibroseis land acquisition is directly related to the time it takes to shake each vibrator point and move to the next point. Shake and Go can be used to record seismic data at lower cost, or it can be used to record more data at the same cost with improved sampling of signal and noise. It is especially efficient for new point source and point receiver (MEM) acquisition without arrays. Shake and Go, also called C-HFVSSM or Continuous High Fidelity Vibrator SeismicSM, uses long segmented sweeps and HFVS separation. Measurements of the individual vibrator motion are recorded and used to derive a filter that optimally recovers individual seismograms from vibrators operating simultaneously. Cross contamination from strong events, which are simultaneously recorded, are not observable in the individual recovered seismograms. Interference and harmonic noise from the continuous sweeping are limited to the end of a long record and can be removed with a new novel processing method. Because of the high production rates and high data quality, the new method is expected to dominate land acquisition in the future. We present analysis of the noise and show data comparisons for different vibroseis methods. We also overcome the limitation that there must be as many sweeps as vibrators or time delays to optimally separate records for simultaneous sourcing. Methodology Shake and Go or Continuous-HFVSSM (C-HFVSSM) is a combination of ExxonMobil's HFVS (High Fidelity Vibratory Seismic) method and its proprietary Cascaded-Sweep technique. Both acquisition methods, HFVS and its super high efficiency version C-HFVS are licensed to a number of contractors. We have recently developed a proprietary processing method (patent application filed) to further improve the quality of the C-HFVS method so that it matches the high quality of HFVS and allows us to exploit super high efficiency acquisition without any compromise in data quality.

Social acceptance is a challenging aspect that affects the development of geothermal energy and such issues have been reported in many countries, such as Germany, Japan, Greece, and Kenya. In this study, we discuss the barriers to social acceptance and associated risks faced by geothermal energy developers in East Africa. We have conducted semi-structured interviews with international organizations (38.5%), public companies (38.5%), and private companies (23.1%). The interviews were qualitatively analysed using inductive content analysis. The key barriers identified by respondents were the lack of political, market, and community awareness; lack of local political support; lack of public funding; human resource shortages; involuntary resettlement; local cultural aspects; employment issues; and demographic change. The lack of awareness of geothermal energy affects public and private funding, and leads to negative risk perception by communities. Risks, such as air, soil, and water pollution, land acquisition, social exclusion, resource risks, and drilling and project costs, were considered important by our respondents. In this study, we emphasize the need for the following: raising awareness regarding geothermal energy; training professionals; implementing strong surface studies to reduce the risks associated with the exploration stage; and conducting environmental and social impact assessment reports to mitigate negative risks to local communities, while also ensuring their engagement and raising their awareness about the negative risks of geothermal energy.

Cost comparison of producing high-performance Li-ion batteries in the U.S. and in China

The ground is full of all kinds of pipelines of different sizes, materials, pressures and cathodic protection (CP) systems. Most metallic or concrete pipes installed these days utilize a cathodic protection system of some kind. How do you ensure that the cathodic protection system of your new pipeline will not be compromised by existing cathodic protection systems nearby? Freese and Nichols, Incorporated (FNI) recently designed 27,200 feet of 48-inch and 47,400 feet of 42-inch treated water pipeline for the North Texas Municipal Water District in rural North Texas. Paralleling existing utility corridors was favored during pipeline alignment selection to avoid severing properties and reduce overall land acquisition costs, but this also posed challenges during design. The route selected for this pipeline included paralleling an existing natural gas transmission line continuously for approximately 22,000 feet. The existing gas line, configured with an impressed current cathodic protection system, could have significant impacts on corrosion protection systems and life-span of parallel pipelines. Reducing the chance of interference between the two pipelines' cathodic protection systems and ensuring measures were taken to monitor any potential interference in order to extend the life of this asset was a driving factor for the cathodic protection design of this pipeline. This paper discusses the pipe materials considered including bar-wrapped pipe and polyurethane coated steel pipe, as well as the cathodic protection systems considered including impressed current, magnesium ribbon and magnesium groundbeds. Other cathodic protection considerations for a rural pipeline including test station details, rectifier details and placement and pipeline crossing details are discussed in this paper.

Planning and establishment of battery swapping station - A support for faster electric vehicle adoption

2 related to permitting, financing and land acquisition it moved away from private investors and developers, and began to increasingly leverage the power of the central state to execute its policy vision. Even in sectors, such as electricity generation, where Public-Private Partnerships have been a prominent feature, the state has played a major role, either by directly partnering with private developers or by invoking its authority to reassure private developers that projects would be expedited.

Financing rapid transit—a simulation of cost sharing for extensions to BART

This research compared two different processes for Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant site planning: 1. Short-term planning based on economic benefit, 2. Hollistic planning based on McHarg’s method and National Land Agency of Japan’s report in 1980. The short-term planning focus easiness of land acquisition (cost, number of land-owner), so TEPCO achieved to reduce building cost 6.6 billion yen. Meanwhile, holistic planning test with 1980’s data can show this site’s vulnerability to earthquakes, tsunamis, and radioactive contaminations. If TEPCO and government evaluated the safety of the site in earlier stage or even after the construction, 11 trillion-yen accident costs could have reduced.

Rapid Urbanisation trends worldwide has resulted in 54% of the world population living in urban areas, in 2014 from 39%, in 1980. As per 2014 Revision of World Population Prospects, UN, 2014, India & China are expected to be the largest contributors to the estimated increase in urban population till 2050. Most of the grunt of the population growth is going to be seen on big cities or mega-cities, with Asia to struggle most with estimated 60% of the megacities by 2025, most of them across India and China (13th annual edition of DemographiaWorld Urban Areas, 2017).Amongst the various challenges faced by these megacities, providing developed land (i.e. land with access toinfrastructure facilities) for future developments and city infrastructure within the limited funds available with the city & state governments, is a major one. Indian cities, due to limited funds often face delays in infrastructure development (due to high costs of land acquisition) resulting in haphazard development.Land acquisition for industrial, urban and infrastructure development has always been a contentious subject. For land development – land acquisition and land pooling are the two methods adopted in land acquisition process. Land acquisition is carried out under act (LAA), while land pooling is carried out using the provision of related town planning schemes like in the Gujarat. A public private partnership mode plays an important role in the land acquisition and in development of Land.This study attempts to analyse the mechanisms followed under the two methods and the benefits of each. It also recommends mechanism to provide for larger pockets of developed land to be used by the Urban Local Bodies for public purposes, generate revenue and provide for additional development provisions for the developers (for larger public good). The suggested tools & recommendations will in addition to cutting the cost of acquiring land will fetch capital to the project that would make the project self financed and self sustaining, releasing the financial pressure from the Urban Local Body.

As producer services have the characteristics of cluster development in the urban space, rational guidance on spatial patterns of producer services by means of urban planning is able to promote the industrial structure readjustment and spatial structure optimization, and enhance the development of urban modern service industry. Based on characteristics, composition, added value and industrial chain links of producer services, this article has presented that spatial distribution of urban producer services has two patterns: cluster area and supporting center, which respectively belong to two study areas: urban master planning and detailed planning. On the basis of different cluster scales and correlations, this article also has proposed three spatial patterns: industrial parks, characteristic blocks and industrial neighborhood center.

The paper employs the combination of design thinking and product mapping approaches for building key skills and capabilities for technology management during the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It presents an overview of the literature of these two approaches, showing a gap in research that proposes their combination. It defines technology roadmapping planning as a human-centred complex problem and proposes a simple three-step sequence to assess when design thinking is applicable. The paper presents the results of using this approach in a business unit in a private non-profit research and development institute. One is the identification of six different, but interlinked, concepts of technology road-mapping that are relevant to stakeholders. The other is a ―Joint Planning‖ experiment, which suggests that road-mapping planning should rely on the co-creation of all relevant stakeholders and should take place in multiples points of the process, in order to grasp any new learning and context that may arise during the execution of the road-mapping initiative