Bay Area firms helping to clean up China
Bay Area firms helping to clean up China
Bay Area architecture and planning firms have a new stream of work coming from China: pollution cleanup.
As the building boom in China has slowed, local architects have turned to the environmental challenges faced by the Asian superpower, which just released a report showing pollution in the country is far worse than previously believed. San Francisco architecture, engineering and landscaping firms are already knee-deep in development projects that focus on pollution cleanup in China. And they believe the new report is likely to open up a flood of new opportunities.
San Francisco firms such as Heller Manus, SOM, , CB Richard Ellis, Hargreaves Associates, and SWA Group are working on two plans to redevelop and cleanup the industrial city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province.