Diamond-shaped, a park Velachery drives a wedge between two neighbourhoods, VGP Selva Nagar and Bhuvaneshwari Nagar in topographical terms. This park on VGP Selva Nagar Second Main Road figures in the sponge parks being developed by Greater Chennai Corporation across its limits. Before the park is readied for the grand display, P Balashanmugasekar, president, VGP Selva Nagar, Selva Nagar Extension …
When Typhoon In-fa pelted Shanghai with heavy rains in July, Xu Jingxin was worried about the "sponge park" he had been working on for the past two years. Xu, an engineer with the China Construction Technology Consulting and in charge of the construction of the sponge facilities, was concerned about whether the "sponges" that he helped to design could withstand …