Feb+25+Presentation

//Floating Island/City// **//New York City://** -new street level -connective tissue -not so fixed, flexible -docks, platform can hold activities but not rigidly connective -pedestrian “urban dock”


 * //Reason://** To reclaim portions of Manhattan when it floods - New sea based water system //“Urban Flotation Structure”//


 * //Research://** Flotation Devices Geotextile Systems Semiformatic Floating James Bond: Venice building, foundations are floatationable strength is based on air Material Technology examples: Netherlands development on water (piers) New Technology – more dynamic surface structure


 * //WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?//** Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere and temperatures are rising. The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real, it’s already happening and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable. We’re already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting, plants and animals are being forced from their habitat, and the number of severe storms and droughts is increasing. If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences. Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.


 * How to keep New York afloat:** With sea levels rising, once-a-century floods may become once-in-20-years events. By 2050, stronger storms and rising sea levels may make the flood that previously hit once every 100 years a once-in-20-years event, according to GISS. With a possible eight-foot sea level rise by 2100, flooding could occur every four years. It is easy to foresee potential fixes ranging from raising key infrastructure and building barriers, to flood gates and temporary seals over tunnel entrances Sea levels have risen almost a foot in the past century, partly because of ice melt and thermal expansion, and partly because of naturally occurring land subsidence of the Northeast. In the same period, area temperatures have risen nearly 2 degrees F. One solution might be to build raisable flood barriers large enough to protect all of Manhattan Island or just to elevate roads. For example, sends more runoff into subway grates. Water pumped out of subway tunnels – already some 14 million gallons daily goes into sewer systems that might be overtaxed by rainwater.

Flotation Devices: Many water-related activities are made safer with the use of expanded polystyrene (EPS) from floating docks to life-saving devices and buoys to surf and boogie boards.
 * Value of water:** Water is a precious resource as it is necessary for life preservation. Besides this basic value, the following other values might be ascribed: - The socio-economic value; - The ecological value; - The aesthetic value; - The human perception value. - Apart from these "direct" values another two indirect values or derivative values are identified: - The availability of water (water quantity); - The quality of water.

Tough, durable polyethylene pipe normally used in tough municipal, industrial and mining applications provides a flotation medium for docks and other types of floating structures unmatched in the industry. The ends of each pipe are capped with a unique fusion process and are as strong and leak proof as the original pipe. Brackets are strategically positioned on each float to simplify the dock building process.

Fiberglass Plastic Modular systems Polystyrene Styrofoam Geotextile Systems: The three-dimensional polymer core is covered on one or both sides with a non-woven geotextile filter and / or a non-permeable film, attached by full thermal bonding.
 * //Urban Dock Materials://**