America’s First Solar Town Breaks Ground
BABCOCK RANCH, Fla. — One of the greenest communities in America, located east of Fort Meyers on the banks of the Coloosahatchie River in Florida, is currently under construction.
May 25, 2016
Tropical Construction Goes Green in Singapore
SINGAPORE — In downtown Singapore, a newly completed skyscraper is growing green. Oaisa Downtown, a 27-story hotel with a plant-covered exoskeleton, is unlike any other experimental green high-rise. WOHA, the Singapore-based designer, created the sustainable building as an alternate to the Western glass-and-steel structures, which tend to attract and trap heat in the tropics.
Wall-Mounted Solar Inverter
Delta Products created the world’s first, wall-mounted 80-kilowatt string inverter called the M80U Photovoltaic inverter. The M80U, a grid-tiered, three-phase transformerless solar inverter, is ergonomically designed for ease of use with a separable structure — NEMA 4X Enclosure Standard — to protect personnel and prevent degradation from adverse environmental conditions. In fact, it’s operating temperature ranges from -13 degrees Fahrenheit to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.