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THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 1981
Features
Plants improve technology, increase jobs
College-sponsored industries are valuable
United Press International
NEW YORK — The university-
sponsored industrial park looks
like a wave of the future in
America.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti
tute of Troy, N.Y., the oldest de
gree-granting engineering school
in the English-speaking world.
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has just announced such a ven
ture.
President George M. Low said
RPI will contribute 1,200 acres in
North Greenbush near the RPI
campus and $3 million cash to
build roads, sewers and other
necessary improvements to get
the park started.
RPI’s primary interest is to pro
vide large-scale practical experi-
: ence opportunities under adv-
. anced industrial working condi-
[ tions for its faculty, its 4,300
| undergraduates and 1,300 gradu-
| ate students. Ultimately the park
! may provide income for the col
lege, but Low told United Press
International that would be far in
the future.
It could, however, bring an ulti-
... a marriage of high
er education and indus
try” probably is the
first essential to a good
long-range industrial
park program.
mate payroll of $100 million a year
to the Troy-Albany area, jobs for
9,000 persons, annual production
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The college-sponsored indust
rial park is not original with RPI.
Low said much of the inspiration
came from Stanford’s success with
its Silicon Valley developments,
Princeton’s Forrestal Center, the
University of Utah’s magnificent
industrial park, the Route 128 de
velopments around Boston associ
ated with MIT, University Re
search Park near Charlotte, N.C.
and Research Triangle near
Raleigh, N.C
“The fundamental object from
RPI’s standpoint is to enhance
teaching and research opportuni
ties and let faculty and students
become more familiar with the
real world of manufacturing and
high technology industry,” he
said.
This would appear to be a more
modern approach to what the Uni
versity of Cincinnati and Antioch
College set off nearly 60 years ago
when they went into co-op educa
tion with students alternating
time between the campus and jobs
in factories or offices.
Low predicted college-
sponsored industrial parks will in
crease. He said he understood the
University of Rochester and the
state university at Stony Brook,
Long Island, are planning parks
and there are others in the works
around the country.
He said while the parks involve
some financial risk to a college or
university, they are thoroughly
justified by the need of colleges,
industry and the nation for more
rapid and diversified technologic
al progress.
In a study of industrial parks last
LaValle concluded that “at
riage of higher education and:
dustry” probably is the first®:
Though industrial parks
involve some financial
risk to a college or uni
versity, they are thor
oughly justified by the
need of colleges, indus
try and the nation for
more rapid and diver
sified technological
progress.
The part-time jobs hi
students and increasei
employment opporfa
nities for graduates an
valuable to the college!
along with the e\
panded research and
teaching opportunities,
tial to a good long-range industa
park program.
The permanence of the facii
and goals of a university or s
gineering college as contrast!
with what may be shifting goals;
individual industrial companies
an important reason for tl
year for Gov. Hugh Carey and the
New York legislature a committee
headed by State Sen. Kenneth P.
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entific equipment, library fee
ties, pools of graduate stink
and a labor pool of undergratk-
wanting part-time jobs alsoareb
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Barrier project planned
to avert London flooding
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LONDON — London lives
under the constant threat of a
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flood that could rank among the
worst civil catastrophes of the cen
tury.
‘‘It is not a question of if there
will be a flood, but of when,” said
Bill Cook, the engineer in charge
of a flood emergency room oper
ated by London’s metropolitan
council.
A tidal surge could put up to 45
square miles of the most densely
populated parts of the city under
as much as 18 feet of water.
Thousands of lives would be en
dangered. The material cost
would be astronomical.
To avert the threat, the council
is racing to complete an awe
inspiring barrier across the River
Thames downstream beyond
Greenwich. It is the biggest civil
engineering project in Europe.
The barrier, which with the
raising of river banks costs $1.4
billion at 1980 prices, is scheduled
to go into operation at the end of
next year.
Low-lying London has been
prone to flooding for centuries.
Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary
in 1663: “There was last night the
greatest tide that ever was re
membered in England to have
been in this River, all Whitehall
having been drowned.”
There have been on average
four floods a century. In statistical
terms, London is living on bor
rowed time.
High water in the Thames rises
by an average 30 inches a century,
for a variety of reasons.
The economic consequence^
a serious flood are almost imp®
ble to calculate.
It could destroy the city's abili)
to compete as a sophisticate
financial center. Transportafe
would be knocked out, perhapsfo
months. More than 250,(K(
homes, stores, factories air
offices would be endangered b
mud and sewage.
Aging sewers would ciatl
under the strain. The city cot
remain inundated for many da;
Electricity, gas and telepbs
would be affected over an a«i
much greater than the capital 1
self.
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and a catastrophe for the capital?,
the scale of the (1666) Great Fr:
of London,” the London coum
warns. “Indeed, many feel
London would never fully recow
from the blow.”
In an attempt to minimize Is
of life, an ad campaign adviseste
sidents and workers whattodoli
flood is expected. War-time sires
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Engineer Cook has Telex mfr
sages all ready to set in motions
whole train of emergency actions
The barrier, spanning a 531
yard stretch of the Thames, shodd
end the flood threat for good.
The whole of Britain is tilting on
the earth’s crust, so the southeast
ern part of the country where Lon
don is situated is lower than it
used to be. London itself is sinking
on its bed of clay.
It consists of 10 steel gatesfe
when raised to keep sea wain
from coming into the river, ft
stand the height of a five-sto?
building above the river bed.
The North Sea is higher be
cause the polar ice cap has melted.
Tides are running faster.
The average water level of the
Thames is 9 inches higher since
flooding took 300 lives along the
East Coast and the Thames es
tuary in 1953.
Four rising gates in the cente
of the river each span 200 feet aai
weigh 3,200 tons. When not
use, they recess into concrett
bases set into the river bed.The!
are flanked by two 900-ton risite'
gates and four gates that would!*
lowered into place.
The river banks have been
raised and strengthened enough
to contain ordinary high tides.
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Sometimes, however, a trough
of low air pressure can create a
tidal surge in the North Sea.
Usually such surges peter out in
Scandinavia, but they can be
pushed down towards the Thames
estuary by northerly winds. A
large surge on top of a high tide
would be likely to burst the river
defenses.
The hydraulic machinery
move the gates is set on slf
shaped piers and covered by
less steel canopies that resembk
billowing sails. They will p
the capital with a spectacular riv?
entrance that the London count-
hopes will become a tourist attri
tion.
“Nothing quite like this h
ever been attempted before, ”»
Peter Bosworth, a city engines
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technology.”
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