Taller than a double-decker bus, the “Resilient Tunnel Plug” can stop future flood waters from destroying the subways. Its first installation is happening now. The Superstorm known as Sandy caused an ...
A giant inflatable plug that can be filled with 35,000 gallons of water at a moment’s notice could have prevented some of the flooding that crippled New York City’s transit in the wake of Sandy, ...
The Resilient Tunnel Plug is demonstrated to show it can quickly fill a subway or tunnel and prevent or limit flooding and damages. To take part in the Machine Design infrastructure survey, click here ...
After Hurricane Sandy decimated the subway system last year, officials pledged to install new devices to help halt the rising tides—including flood gates and, more ...
Scientists have successfully tested an unprecedented technology for containing flooding or dangerous gases in mass transit tunnels: a giant plug. Twenty years ago in Chicago, a small leak in an unused ...
What’s the best way to plug a giant hole? Why with a giant plug, of course. That’s the thinking of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), which has ...
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. — Large Inflatable Rubber Plugs have been in use in large-scale infrastructure projects since at least the early 1920’s, when they were used in large cities to isolate and empty ...
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