Eddy's Good News: The worlds biggest office building and the lost and found animal saviour

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3 Aug 2023, 09:05

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Thursday 3rd August 2023

Interesting news from India where the world’s biggest office building has just opened. Say namaste to the brand new Surat Diamond Bourse, which is being billed as a “one-stop destination” for over 65,000 diamond professionals, including cutters, polishers and traders. 

While the architects won’t win any awards for CO2, it is a huge temple to unsustainability, with over 7 million square feet of floor space but there is something, literally, very cool about it.

Featuring a succession of nine rectangular structures spilling out from — and interconnected via — a triple central spine which curves gracefully at the ends and fans out to take in the natural breeze, which sweeps through the centre of the mammoth building, across acres of plants, shrubs and trees, to naturally cool and oxygenate the air and cutting down on the normal reliance on air conditioning. That’s to add to nearly 15 acres of courtyards with trees and water. Half the massive building will be cooled naturally, all the common areas are powered by solar in a giant building where around 90% of the world’s diamonds will be cut.

Via: edition.cnn.com

Inspiring and pawsome news from the US as a woman spends four days on the trot crawling through storm drains in ferocious heat, to rescue four abandoned puppies.

Say hello to Callie Clemons who runs a lost and found animals Facebook page in Houston. She got a notification that four black labrador and terrier cross puppies had been spotted and needed rescuing, but the little pups fell down a storm drain. Callie leapt into action, she managed to get a map of the storm drain system from the local council and armed with a torch on her head and some dog food in her hand, she spent the whole of last weekend and the beginning of this week crawling through stagnant water, rubbish and cockroaches to track down and rescue all the pups.

At the time of the report on local TV news she’d managed to get three of them and she was going back down. Carrie , bless her, has been rescuing animals for 7 years and in that time she has never lost one, and she’s not starting now!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org