IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Dezeen on ‘New York is sinking’!
Rima Sabina Aouf writes in Dezeen:
Researchers have discovered that the mass of buildings in New York City is contributing to it subsiding by one to two millimetres a year, adding to the city’s flood risk.
Researchers from the government’s US Geological Survey and the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island calculated the mass of all the buildings in New York City for the study, which they say is the first to look specifically at the contribution of the built environment on subsidence….
This subsidence adds to flood risk, which is already heightened in New York City due to sea level rise and increasing storm intensity, the researchers say….
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