Cardiff Integrated Infrastructure
Date: 2021
Cardiff: South Wales
Development: Integrated Infrastructure:
Flood Protection - Renewable Energy - EV Network - Green Economic Zone - Cruise Terminal
Foster+Partners
Cardiff Capital Region Integrated Infrastructure
A full response to the challenges of Climate Change - generating new economic development opportunities - reducing environmental impacts.
Flood Defence - Transportation Causeway, from Newport East
to Cardiff Bay - a catalyst for Regional Economic Development, employment
and environmental sustainability..
'Coastal Reservoir' generates 3.5 TWh of renewable energy, combined with europe's largest floating solar farm - powering all of Cardiff's energy needs.
Flood Protection: Regenerates large sections of flood risk coastal land, brought into beneficial use.
Renewable energy enables sustainable development, new industries, new jobs and digital food production.
EV Infrastructure: Clean energy enables Green Transportation.
EV charging network allows public transport to run on renewable energy, facilitates uptake of EV’s by the public.
Transportation: Displacing M4 motorway traffic, removing delays at the Brynglas tunnel bottleneck.
Providing a new cycle way, extending cycle routes within South Wales – adding to Wales’s 1,200 miles of National Cycle Network routes.
Projected 6% GVA uplift generating 10,000 jobs and a £2 billion per annum stimulus to the over the next ten years.
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