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The cost of the new International Arrivals Facility at Sea-Tac airport has swelled by another $40 million to $830 million, and the project is running five months late. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter The expected cost of the new International Arrivals Facility at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has swelled since last August by a

FQUROH: A Flight Demonstration Project for Airframe Noise Reduction Technology – YouTube To make future aircraft quieter, JAXA has been developing airframe noise reduction technologies. The footage introduces JAXA’s FQUROH flight demonstration project for airframe noise reduction technology. (March 2018) (FQUROH stands for the “Flight Demonstration of Quiet Technology to Reduce Noise from High-lift Configurations”)

…the fourth inspector general’s critique in as many years of a program known as NextGen, on which more than $7 billion in federal funds has already been spent.

A podcast series about what went wrong at BER, Berlin’s unfinished airport. Subscribe on Itunes here. Every Berliner knows the new airport is late. Few know exactly why. We’re here to explain. BER is the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, nickname Willy Brandt. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption

BY AMANDA MACMILLAN If you live near an airport, railroad tracks or a busy road, you might be concerned about how fumes from those planes, trains and automobiles are affecting your health. But according to a new review in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, there may be another threat to worry about: high levels of

02/06/18

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Mt. Rainier KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer Business at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been booming, and so has its carbon pollution. Airport officials say they can eliminate the climate-wrecking emissions without limiting the airport’s rapidly growing business. But whether the wonder of air travel can be divorced from the global harm it does —

The Des Moines Creek Business Park – The Right Development at the Right Time January 24, 2018adminProjectsNo Comments After more than 2 decades of frustration and disappointment, an abandoned ghost town south of SeaTac Airport is being reborn.  Development of the Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) is well underway.  Soundview Consultants LLC provided wetland

The new Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) is the $125 million redevelopment of a site that spent decades as a modern ghost town.  For more than twenty years the site was an abandoned residential area containing nothing but exposed foundations and empty asphalt and concrete streets.  The area is now home to K2 Sports,

(As amended December 19, 2017. Goals are intended to reflect attainment in 2037, unless explicitly noted otherwise.) Strategy 1: Position the Puget Sound region as a premier international logistics hub Objectives: 1.   Grow seaport annual container volume to more than 3.5 million TEUs. 2.   Structure the Port of Seattle’s relationship with Washington ports to optimize infrastructure