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Plastic Roads – an innovation in pavement and highway engineering

Published on: July 17, 2015 by Saad Iqbal

Paving Streets and roads with asphalt can – in a not so distant future – become a thing of the past. The alternative? Recycled Plastic. And the Netherlands could be the first country to use this new type of road surface. Plastic roads would last up to three times as much as asphalt. Image: VolkerWessels … Read more

Eiffel Tower Goes Green

Published on: March 8, 2015 by Saad Iqbal

Tallest tower of Paris, located on Champ de Mars in Paris, erected in 1889 as the entrance arch for World’s fair, Eiffel Tower (La tour Eiffel) goes green as Universal Green Energy (UGE) – a Canadian based company has installed two VisionAIR5 vertical axis wind turbines on the first floor of iconic iron lattice tower. … Read more