What Happens Before a New Neighborhood Is Built?
Before the trees come down, someone has already worked out whether the land, the rules, the infrastructure and the numbers can support a neighborhood. Follow one wooded tract from 100 imagined lots to a workable plan for 72.
What Infrastructure Does a Data Center Actually Use?
Power, cooling, water, wastewater, stormwater, noise and access: how a data center’s design determines what it needs from the infrastructure around it.
What Happens When You Drive Over a Bridge?
Follow your car's weight from the tire to the dirt, and see what each part of a bridge is doing, why it bumps, and what a flood can take away.
What Happens When You Drive to Work?
Follow a familiar drive from your driveway to the interstate, and see why each kind of road trades direct property access for through movement.
What Happens When It Rains?
Rain is the third kind of water in a city, and nobody turns it on. Follow a raindrop from roof, lawn, or street through Columbia’s drainage systems to the Congaree River.
What Happens After You Flush?
Where does it go when you flush? Follow wastewater forward, from your toilet through the sewer system to the Congaree River, explained for people who are not engineers.
What Happens When You Turn On the Faucet?
Follow a glass of water backward from your kitchen faucet through the pipes, pumps, treatment plant, and source waters that make an ordinary glass of water possible.