凤凰国际赛道将接受1.78亿美元的翻新，包括改进风扇经验和竞赛轨道现代化，包括重新定位的开始/终点线。
根据PIR Press发布的说​​法，翻新后，开始/结束将位于轨道的狗腿附近的2轮。
“当我们的项目完成时，我们将有一个地点，提供惊人的粉丝体验，以便我们对巨大赛车行动的声誉，”菲尼克斯赛道总统布莱恩·斯泰尔伯在新闻稿中。“通过将开始/终点线转移到凤凰赛道的着名的狗腿，粉丝将完美地定位，以观看赛车运动中最令人兴奋的转变之一。”
The project will also include new seating areas with wi-fi accessibility and a new pedestrian bridge. New and upgraded seating, along with hospitality areas, will be added near Turn 2 along with a grandstand and infrastructure to support the additions, such as escalators and elevators, restrooms and concessions. The renovation will also feature a redesigned midway near the seating areas.
Fan improvements include a new Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Garage Fan Zone located in the redesigned infield that will allow fans to interact with drivers.
The renovation is officially dubbed the Phoenix Raceway Project Powered by DC Solar. DC Solar is serving as the title sponsor of the project and is also an entitlement partner DC Solar 200 race at PIR.
Goodyear Reaches Deal with SRP
据批准，盐河项目与盐水河项目之间的新协议，并将为亚利桑那州亚利桑那州的工程水域提供良好的亚利桑那州，并根据一份合适的依据提供Gila River印度社区的城市租赁和SRP新闻稿。
The agreement calls for SRP to receive Goodyear’s CAP water at an SRP-CAP Interconnect Facility before transporting the water through SRP canals and delivering to a future yet-to-be-constructed water treatment facility in Goodyear. The city will construct a pipeline to connect the facility to SRP’s system.
Goodyear currently has no infrastructure in place to receive its CAP allocations and instead relies on groundwater pumping. Goodyear will pay SRP for use of the interconnect facility and its conveyance system.
协议第1阶段将在三到五年内每天看到大约800万加仑的水。在此之后的15至20年之后，协议将进入第2阶段，并看到每天收到约1600万加仑的水。
里约诺沃Oks Caterpillar建筑队
亚利桑森里约诺沃多用途设施区。最近批准了建筑公司Smithgroupjjr和Sundt建设的合同，以建立新的15万平方英尺的毛虫表面挖掘和技术部门设施。
SmithGroupJJR will design the project and selected Tucson-based WSM Architects as its local liaison. Tucson-based Sundt will serve as general contractor.
After Caterpillar announced plans to build the new facility that will house roughly 600 engineers and ancillary staff, Rio Nuevo offered to construct the building and lease it back to the company. Caterpillar accepted the offer. Rio Nuevo is a body created by Tucson voters in 1999 that is charged with investing state tax dollars in public and public/private partnership projects, according to a Rio Nuevo press release.
Sustainability Solutions Festival Continues through the month
The Arizona State University Sustainability Solutions Festival will take place throughout the month of February in Phoenix and Tempe, Ariz. and feature conferences, community gatherings and film screenings focused on increasing knowledge and awareness about sustainability.
The festival kicked off on Feb. 2 with the conference “Designing with Nature: How Biophilic Design Improves Lives” at the ASU Tempe Campus Joe Zazzera, certified biomimicry professional and LEED AP ID+C, and Sonja Bochart, principal at sonja bochart wellbeing+design and IIDA, LEED AP BD&C, WELL AP.
Other conferences include World Business Council for Sustainable Development gathering (tickets cost $200-$300) at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix and Global Reporting Initiative Reporters’ Summit North America (tickets cost $150-$750) at ASU Skysong in Scottsdale, both on Feb 13.
本月显示的电影包括和平，家庭和海星投掷者。
ASU Scientists finds geometry in ancient construction sites
Dr. Sherry Towers of the ASU Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center has found that the ancient Southwestern Pueblo people utilized complicated geometrical shapes in the construction of the Sun Temple in Colorado, despite having no recorded language or number system.
在研究新利luck太阳寺考古遗址时，塔发现了几种常见地理形状的重复使用，包括等边三角形，正方形，45度右三角形，毕达哥兰三角形和“金色矩形”，根据ASU新闻稿。尽管没有编号系统，但是通过严格的精度进行测量。她发现了在新墨西哥的Chaco文化国家历史公园的Pueblo Bonito的类似建筑技术的证据
“这就是我觉得特别神奇的是什么，”塔在释放中说。“该网站建筑师的天才不能低估。如果您今天询问某人试图重建这个网站并实现他们只使用一根棍子和一条线的相同精度，他们能够做到这一点它，特别是如果他们无法在工作时无法写下任何东西。“
Towers discovered that the site was constructed using a common unit of measurement that is roughly equal to 30 centimeters or one foot.

塔首先开始研究Sun寺，了解普韦布洛人新利luck是否除了宗教仪式之外还用于学习星星。