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Jiangsu's new urban-infrastructure rules combine asset surveys, risk assessment, sensors, shared data, warnings and departmental duties. The important move is not the technology alone, but an operating chain from detecting danger to assigning a response.
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Japan’s infrastructure-management consultation moves beyond maintenance technique to a harder question: how shrinking municipalities should reorganize assets and services they can no longer manage one by one.
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England has restructured national planning policy around clearer plan-making and decision rules, a presumption for suitably located development and a Housing Delivery Test tied to completed homes.
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Uganda has accepted the first rehabilitated section of Kiteezi landfill after the 2024 collapse.
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Dubai Municipality’s faster Legionella and E. coli testing combines advanced analytical technologies with fully electronic result reading.
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A mobile plant at a Wairau Valley stormwater pond is testing on-site dewatering and material separation.
Read analysisDiscover how solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination is improving urban water security through energy-efficient and climate-resilient infrastructure.
Read analysisSingapore’s Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) is a challenge for human entry. Read how a drone inspecting the system can do it in the dark.
Read analysisSydney’s Better Buildings Partnership aims to reduce GHG emissions, water, and energy in the existing built environment, creating a better, stronger Sydney.
Read analysisThe rate of urbanization in Europe will pose challenges to urban waterways, requiring the greening of Europe's urban spaces.
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