Sentence examples for ageing infrastructures from inspiring English sources

Worldwide ageing infrastructures which are vulnerable to seismic lateral loads and located in high seismicity regions have arrested the interest of many researchers to find alternative materials and techniques to strengthen in bending and shear, for example reinforced concrete (RC) beams, slabs, columns, etc.

Ageing infrastructure and the need for more capacity are the railway industry's two big challenges.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a massive $222 billion public works programme to rebuild California's ageing infrastructure.

There is a profound cultural fear of ageing, which glorifies the young and deprecates anything old: "ageing infrastructure", "sunset industries".

But the need to upgrade ageing infrastructure and pay for securing new water resources is pushing up water rates.

The world's cities face similar challenges: an ageing infrastructure, rising healthcare costs, increased congestion and global competition.

Automation has already happened to the extent to which local government and the ageing infrastructure it has can provide it.

"WHAT BP experienced was a perfect storm where ageing infrastructure, overzealous cost-cutting, inadequate design and risk blindness all converged.

"The most disturbing aspect of the lock's ageing infrastructure is a complete lack of alternative methods to move this volume of steel," Brauer said.

Most of those greenhouse gas emissions are from leaky equipment – faulty casing on newly fracked wells, but also millions of miles of pipelines and ageing infrastructure.

In 2007 the city embarked on a programme to address changing climate, population growth and ageing infrastructure, as well as improve residents' quality of life.