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Photo-rendering courtesy of Boeing
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Ten days ago Boeing celebrated the groundbreaking for an expansion of its Boeing South Carolina site in North Charleston. The expansion, first announced in late 2024, involves expansion and upgrade of the company’s original site near Charleston International Airport and a second campus. According to a company release, the project is projected to increase production to a rate of 10 787 Dreamliners per month in 2026. Boeing is investing more than $1 billion and plans to create more than 1,000 new jobs over the next five years in addition to the more than 2,500 people with over 6.2 million construction hours from the joint venture of HITT Contracting and BE&K Building Group who will be employed in the construction effort.
The company established operations in South Carolina in 2009 (a Site Selection Top Deal of the Year) and currently employs more than 8,200 people across its campuses in North Charleston and in Orangeburg. As reported in the Site Selection Aerospace Report, another $1 billion expansion took place in 2013, less than a year after the first aircraft was produced at the site. Since then, the company said 90 customers have placed more than 2,250 orders for the 787 Dreamliner family, making it the best-selling widebody passenger airplane of all time. “After more than 1,200 deliveries, the 787 backlog stands at nearly 1,000 airplanes, including more than 300 orders added just this year,” said Boeing. “In all, the commercial aviation industry is expected to need more than 7,800 new widebody airplanes over the next two decades, according to Boeing’s Commercial Market Outlook.”
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Critical Gateway
The St. Lawrence Seaway is a shipping corridor with room to grow. The leaders of Ontario-based St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation share their insights on this vital marine highway to the world … and the need for binational collaboration.
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The mascot of Metro Transit in Minneapolis gets on board with the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers at a 2023 football game.
Photo courtesy of Metro Transit
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Caroline Daigle, transportation associate with the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), early this month published “Local and Regional Policymakers Can Better Align Transportation and Housing Plans.” Although homebuyers and elected officials alike support more housing near transit, she writes, “a recent survey of more than 100 metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), which are responsible for coordinating transportation investments in metropolitan regions, showed that more than 40% say their transportation and housing planning is either barely integrated or not integrated at all.” However, Minneapolis zoning and pending measures in Nashville may show the way forward. Site Selection’s Kelly Barraza reported on Gensler’s Transit-Oriented Development Opportunity Index in September in “Planes, Trains and Fewer Automobiles.”
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Photo courtesy of INNIO Group and Statera Energy
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Jenbach, Austria-based INNIO Group, Clarke Energy and power plant developer, owner and operator Statera Energy are delivering this 450-MW flexible generation facility in Thurrock, England, near London, that is expected to provide enough power for up to 1 million homes in Southeast England. In a release, INNIO Group calls it “one of the world’s largest high-speed gas engine peaking power plants,” designed to “respond rapidly to fluctuations in supply and demand, ensuring reliable electricity during peak periods and when renewable output varies.”
The company said the Jenbacher “Ready for H2” engines in Thurrock will operate primarily on natural gas but are designed to run on a variety of fuel blends, including biomethane and hydrogen. Statera has over 2.1 GW of assets delivered or under construction, and plans to deliver 8 GW of flexibility assets by 2030, part of a total pipeline of over 16 GW.
Thurrock, located along the River Thames some 35 minutes from center city London, is home to around 160,000 residents, the historic Coalhouse Fort and Tilbury Fort, and DP World’s massive London Gateway port and logistics park complex, where a fifth berth is under construction.
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