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Members of the ITF Corporate Partnership Board gather for a family photo at the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 23 May 2019.
Heather Thompson (CEO, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) speaks at the session on “Looking towards the 2020 Summit: Transport innovation for sustainable development” during the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 24 May 2019.
The North Pacific Regional Connectivity Investment Project is helping build a submarine cable system linking Palau to the internet cable hub in Guam.
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This was one of three tours offered at the Meeting of the Minds 2012 in San Francisco, CA.
Description:
Tour #1: Arts, Innovation and Sustainability Tour of Central San Francisco
This 1.5 hour walking tour will be lead by James Hanusa, Green Economy Advisor for Stakeholder Forum and New Initiatives for Burning Man Project.
The tour will start at the award winning, newly built San Francisco Public Utilities Commission headquarters, key features include onsite clean energy generation, 100 percent waste water treated on site and advanced daylight harvesting.
The electric vehicle pilot project at City Hall will be the next stop with both car share and city vehicles in the program. We will walk through the planned Resource Conservation District at Civic Center on our way to UN Plaza passing the Federal Building, which is the first naturally ventilated office building on the West Coast since the invention of air conditioning. The building is also an example of how building design can help slash emissions of greenhouse gases.
We will proceed down the emerging arts and innovation district of Central Market Street visiting multiple local arts groups such as art and technology collective, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and cultural avant garde organization, Burning Man Project. The 5M innovation complex will be the next stop with short interviews with developer Forest City and leaders from resident organizationTechShop, Hub Soma and Intersection for the Arts. Our tour will continue through the Yuerba Buena Gardens area including the Center for the Arts, the SF Museum of Modern Art, including a quick chat with the W Hotel Manager about his building, which is one of the first LEED Silver for existing buildings in the world.
Our final stop is the gallery at the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association‘s LEED Silver headquarters.
More information: cityminded.org/events/sanfrancisco/pre-conference-tours
Workers removing the spillway at the Fall River Dam. This project opened 40 miles of stream habitat for fish.
Patrick Mallejacq (Secretary-General, World Road Association, PIARC) at the “Sustainable road transport connectivity across borders” event organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the International Road Federation, the International Road Transport Union and the World Road Association at the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 23 May 2019.
"Fall Creek Falls State Park is one of Tennessee’s largest and most visited state parks. The park encompasses more than 26,000 acres sprawled across the eastern top of the rugged Cumberland Plateau. Laced with cascades, gorges, waterfalls, streams and lush stands of virgin hardwood timber, the park beckons those who enjoy nature at her finest. Fall Creek Falls, at 256 feet, is one of the highest waterfalls in the eastern United States. Other waterfalls within the park include Piney Falls, Cane Creek Falls, and Cane Creek Cascades.
The park is located in Bledsoe and Van Buren counties, 11 miles east of Spencer and 18 miles west of Pikeville. It may be entered from Highway 111 or Highway 30.
In 1937, the federal government began purchasing the badly eroded land around Fall Creek Falls. The following year, the Works Project Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began restoring the forest and constructing park facilities. A few years later in 1944, the National Park Service transferred ownership of the park to the State of Tennessee.
Fall Creek Falls features 30 cabins and 222 campsites. Backcountry camping is also available with permit.
The park is home to a variety of activities suitable for visitors of all ages and abilities. Hikers can opt for short or long walks around the lake and to the base of Fall Creek Falls. There are two long-distance overnight trails for adventure-seeking visitors while the day-use trails are designed to accommodate recreational and educational activities for all ages. More than 56 miles of trails can be explored.
The Nature Center at Fall Creek Falls offers hands-on environmental education through a variety of naturalist-led programs. Additional programs include arts and crafts, movies, campfires, organized games, and live musical entertainment. In addition to individual and family environmental education, the park offers extensive programming geared to school groups. Since 1996, the Environmental Education Center has been educating and facilitating environmental education through the parks vast natural resources by offering a low cost, high quality overnight field trip for school groups. The park serves as an excellent outdoor classroom with programs designed to relate to your school's required curriculum. For more information visit Environmental Education Center or call the park office.
The Fall Creek Falls Golf Course is another popular attraction. The beautiful and challenging 18-hole golf course is one of the best courses in Tennessee. The park pro shop provides golfing supplies, lessons, rental clubs, and carts.
The Canopy Challenge Course at Fall Creek Falls includes over 75 wobbly bridges, rope swings, cargo nets, balance beams and zip lines of varying difficulty. Participants move through the aerial adventure course connected to a flexible lifeline system that uses smart-belay technology to ensure connectivity with overhead belay cables. More information is available here.
Prepared food is available at The Village pool snack bar and FCF Golf Course Pro Shop. Groceries are sold at the camp store in The Village. Fall Creek Falls t-shirts, caps and other souvenirs are available at our two gift shops; one is located at the park office and one located at the camper check-in building.
The park also has four playgrounds, five covered picnic pavilions and an Olympic-sized pool with a wading area that is open Memorial Day to Labor Day." -Tennessee State Parks
Maintenance of the communications tower in Palau. The North Pacific Regional Connectivity Investment Project is helping build a submarine cable system linking Palau to the internet cable hub in Guam.
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Young Tae Kim (Secretary-General, International Transport Forum) and Paolo Costa (Chairman, Spea Engineering) at a signing ceremony making Spea Engineering the newest member of the International Transport Forum's Corporate Partnership Board during the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 23 May 2019.
José Barbero (Consultant in logistics chains for Latin America and the Caribbean, Inter-American Development Bank) at the panel session on “Connectivity for Development: The Mesoamerican Experience” hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank during the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 23 May 2019.
Connectivity and readymade practice : experimenting, manipulating and combining daily life objects in order to attempt, to force or to mystify a workable connection between them, at least to make it visible and/or possible. This exercise is to be considered as a warm-up, a first step towards a further installation or project.
New media art course at Erg, Brussels.
Connectivity and readymade.
Experimenting, manipulating and combining daily life objects in order to attempt, to force or to mystify a workable connection between them, at least to make it visible and/or possible. This exercise is to be considered as a warm-up, a first step towards a further installation or project.
Erg (École de Recherche Graphique), Brussels, Arts Numériques-Atelier (New media art), 2016-2017.
Professors : Marc Wathieu.
Tim Macindoe, Associate Minister of Transport, New Zealand, speaking during the Panel session: The right regulation for automated and autonomous driving at the International Transport Forum’s 2017 Summit on “Governance of Transport” in Leipzig, Germany on 31 May 2017.
Frida Youssef (Chief Transport Section, Division on Technology and Logistics, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD) at the side event on "Integrated transport networks in the Asia-Pacific and beyond" organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) taking place during the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 22 May 2019.
After the hurricane: Helping restore connectivity in Nicaragua
Two members of ITU’s Emergency Telecommunications Roster (ETR), a group of staff volunteers from across the organization, were deployed to Nicaragua to help close connectivity gaps and bolster disaster response efforts in some of the country’s hardest-hit areas.
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We can see three birds sitting on electricity cables. The only man made structure in this natural scene are the electricity cable. Kumarakom, inspite of being in the midst of nature has good connectivity, especially internet !
This was one of three tours offered at the Meeting of the Minds 2012 in San Francisco, CA.
Description:
Tour #1: Arts, Innovation and Sustainability Tour of Central San Francisco
This 1.5 hour walking tour will be lead by James Hanusa, Green Economy Advisor for Stakeholder Forum and New Initiatives for Burning Man Project.
The tour will start at the award winning, newly built San Francisco Public Utilities Commission headquarters, key features include onsite clean energy generation, 100 percent waste water treated on site and advanced daylight harvesting.
The electric vehicle pilot project at City Hall will be the next stop with both car share and city vehicles in the program. We will walk through the planned Resource Conservation District at Civic Center on our way to UN Plaza passing the Federal Building, which is the first naturally ventilated office building on the West Coast since the invention of air conditioning. The building is also an example of how building design can help slash emissions of greenhouse gases.
We will proceed down the emerging arts and innovation district of Central Market Street visiting multiple local arts groups such as art and technology collective, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and cultural avant garde organization, Burning Man Project. The 5M innovation complex will be the next stop with short interviews with developer Forest City and leaders from resident organizationTechShop, Hub Soma and Intersection for the Arts. Our tour will continue through the Yuerba Buena Gardens area including the Center for the Arts, the SF Museum of Modern Art, including a quick chat with the W Hotel Manager about his building, which is one of the first LEED Silver for existing buildings in the world.
Our final stop is the gallery at the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association‘s LEED Silver headquarters.
More information: cityminded.org/events/sanfrancisco/pre-conference-tours
As it becomes safe for people to travel around the province again, investments in high-speed internet are giving local businesses in the tourism sector new ways to market themselves and rebound from the impacts of the pandemic.
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Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams launches Telkom Fibre Connectivity at Orlando West Secondary School in Soweto. (Photo: GCIS)
SMSC is a global supplier of integrated circuits and semiconductor software solutions for high speed computing, connectivity, automotive and embedded networking applications. SMSC builds its business through innovation while maintaining high standards in quality.
Before undertaking the construction and renovation of their existing headquarters, SMSC insisted that the team hired to build their new facility would reflect their corporate culture of creativity, innovation and quality by creating a world-class headquarters and test facility.
SMSC’s corporate headquarters sits on 10 acres located in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. When first built in 1979, the building was approximately 80,000 square feet. The facility that exists today has undergone a complete renovation, and has been expanded on both sides. The expansion project included a 106,200-square-foot, two story office addition, training facility and cafeteria at the west side of the existing building, and a 13,800-square-foot shipping and receiving area on the east. The construction of the new facility consolidated more than 400 employees into one facility, who had previously been working between two buildings in the Hauppauge Industrial Park. The master planning of the expanded facility also provided room for future growth of the company. With SMSC operating continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TRITEC’s project staff had to ensure that disruption was minimized. TRITEC and their partners worked extensively with people from each division of SMSC to incorporate their vision into the design, phasing construction around each department’s operational objectives.
Preconstruction on the facility began in October of 2003. The TRITEC team broke ground on January 8, 2005. Construction started on an intense 16-month schedule with the addition of the new loading area adjacent to SMSC’s vibration sensitive testing floor. Once the loading area was complete, receiving operations were moved from the existing west end location to the new east end addition and work on the large west end addition began. Continuing to focus on the goal of maintaining a safe environment with no significant down time for SMSC employees, the TRITEC team worked from the point furthest west, leaving an existing access road opens until a new entrance on the east could be completed. Once the new access road was complete, the old access road was closed and the new west addition was married to the existing building. The west addition included a 22,000-squarefoot, 15-foot deep basement. This portion of the project was referred to as “the big dig,” but with much more satisfactory results than the infamous Boston project. While the basement was under construction, the old west end receiving area and warehouse was converted to office space; all 13 existing bathrooms were renovated. To maintain schedule and budget, TRITEC mobilized two operations, bringing a second job superintendent onto the site"one for interior renovations and the other focusing on out-of-the-ground construction. In May 2006, SMSC’s employees moved into the new facility. The project’s success can be attributed to a proper preconstruction plan, early procurement of long lead items and the dedication of the SMSC-TRITEC project team. All pre-manufactured materials needed for the project"from doors to rooftop H.V.A.C. units" were ordered ASAP. These pre-purchased items were stored on site and were therefore available when needed avoiding significant time gaps in the project schedule. The finished project boasts a beautiful interior with soaring three-story atrium accented by rich mahogany and beautiful granite, spanning 225 feet from front to back and towering out of the basement some 45 feet. Skylights run nearly the entire length of the central corridor lighting the atrium and walking bridges that are not only functional but add architectural drama to the voluminous entryway.
This project won the CMAA New York Area Chapter Project of the Year for 2007.