Foster & Partners to
design new, sustainable
Mexico City Airport
The contract for an ambitious new airport
in Mexico City has been awarded to
Pritzker Prize–winning British architect
Norman Foster of Foster & Partners.
F
oster joined forces with Mexican firm FR-EE, led by
Fernando Romero, son-in-law of Mexican billionaire Carlos
Slim, and NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants) on the
winning submission.
Foster’s team aims to make this the world’s most sustainable
airport. The LEED Platinum design imagines a building outfitted
with innovative systems to collect rainwater and sunlight
to produce energy. Building materials are to be sourced
domestically and sustainably wherever possible. Construction
will be completed by locals, creating jobs in the surrounding
area.
Initial renderings reveal one large central terminal—more
eco-friendly than powering multiple structures—under an
undulating ceiling. Foster & Partners have some experience
with weaving local aesthetics into airport designs: the Queen
Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, features shapes
inspired by Bedouin tents, and Beijing Capital International
Airport’s Terminal 3 reimagines the dragon motif ubiquitous in
Chinese imagery. `
Original Source: http://www.hseinternational.co.uk/fosterpartners-to-design-new-sustainable-mexico-city-airport/
European Commissioner
for Health and Food
Safety Elected
Lithuania’s former health minister Vytenis
Andriukaitis has been elected as the new
European Commissioner for health and food
safety and will take up his new post in October
T
he appointment was part of the European Commission
president Jean-Claude Juncker’s unveiling of his new
European Commission who will aim to tackle the big
political changes Europe is facing, including unemployment,
investment and security.
Juncker said, “In the new European Commission, form follows
function. We have to be open to change. We have to show that
the Commission can change. What I present to you today is a
political, dynamic and effective European Commission, geared to
give Europe its new start.”
Andriukaitis will work alongside the College of Commissioners
to promote health and wellbeing in all EU policy areas,
curb harmful use of alcohol, create initiatives to address
discrimination, upgrade defence of child health and withstand a
strong, qualified pharma policy based on the public interest.
He will also be expected to stand up to corporate lobbies
to ensure transparency when working with stakeholders and
encouraged to speak out about the risks that the prospective EU
and US trade and investment deal could pose to people’s health.
Speaking at the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
2014 annual conference recently, Andriukaitis said, “Health is
not a consequence of growth but also a condition for growth.
Investments in public health increase productivity and boost job
creation. Health should not only be seen as product of growth:
health encourages growth.” `
Original Source: http://www.hseinternational.co.uk/
european-commissioner-for-health-and-food-safety-elected/
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