La Vegona Hydroelectric Dam in Honduras is designed to promote clean energy and help the country meet its growing power needs. La Vegona produces about 181-gigawatt hours of electricity a year. The hydropower plant also helps to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of Honduran exporters by supplying lower-cost energy from a clean source. It’s the […]
Read full storyThe 225 metre (737 ft) tall Leadenhall Building was officially completed in July 2014, and opened for business in October 2015. The skyscraper, located at 122 Leadenhall Street in London, is affectionately referred to as the Cheesegrater because of its distinctive wedge-shaped profile. This innovative building features a tapered glass facade which reveals the steel […]
Read full storyThe Shard is a 97-story skyscraper in London. Its construction began in March 2009 and it opened to the public in February 2013. At 310 metres (1004 feet), it is the tallest building in the European Union. An open-air observation deck – the UK’s highest – is on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres (802 feet). […]
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