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The Caribbean Region
and CARICOM Member States have all been targeted through its political leaders
within the last three years, by a consortium of Corporate and Institutional
Investors, to accommodate an experiment in futuristic city design.
International Corporations bringing conceptual products for real world testing
and application before a global launch. Financial institutions inclusive of
pension plans, retaining ownership of the system modern designs as deployed to
improve existing cities.
At the core of this ‘Eco-City’ is Agribusiness, animal
raring and crop production on an industrial scale, with the processing of
nutrients for human, animal and plant life as its key component, driven by
revenues from the demands of export markets. Utilizing the newest
scientifically tested techniques to increase space-used yields, reduce disease
and of course, to decrease overall production cost. While focusing and branding
products on international specialty consumer markets that offer wide margins.
Revenue from Generic Pharmaceutical products, with
its main chemical compounds being extracted from animal and plant life grown on
the ‘Eco-City’
farm, under scientifically monitored and controlled conditions, is to be used
to fund expansions into Cleaning and Cosmetic Products. Each component
is created and kept economically competitive by numerous synergies, the test of
which is sustainable viability, measured on a global basis.
As part of the ‘Eco-City’ initialization, competitive domestic
and foreign revenues are projected from the Manufacturing of Building Materials
from Solid Waste and from Renewable Energy Products, both utilized
in the model’s construction and maintenance. These factories will remain in
operation, reducing the present levels of solid waste, mostly plastics,
promoting the increase local use of renewable energy, with extra capacity made
available to the national grid, and helping the country to conform to
international environmental protocols.
The ‘Eco-City’ Information Technology control
systems, use to monitor, evaluate and fine tune; Agricultural Yields and
Production Outputs, Electricity Generation and Distribution, Air and Water
Purification and Circulation, Transportation, Security and Emergency Systems,
will be offered for sale, modularly or integrated, generating revenue to repay
the development and maintenance cost. The system is also linked into a
specialized communication system to manage general public, group or section
alerts and broadcast, and private communications.
Driven by the ‘Eco-City’ model’s clean air policy, revenue is
further projected from Scientific and Medical Tourism, such clean room facilities
as needed in scientific laboratories, medical operating theaters and
recuperation. Scientists and doctorial students can be accommodated, over a
lengthy period, to advance their work. Same day surgery and therapeutical
recovery holidays can be offered to foreign patients.
Designed for visitors to the ‘Eco-City’, a 4-5 star one hundred room, Hotel,
will generate its own revenues, with easy access to restaurants, conference and
other entertainment centers, and is located backing the hospital. Noting that,
a wellness center comprising of gyms, spa and retail shops is located in the
same vicinity.
The main ‘Eco-City’ Hospital with 200 beds, 8
twin surgical theaters and laboratory facilities, which will generate its own
revenues, will be located backing the hotel. Noting that, a wellness center
comprising of gyms, spas and retail pharmacies is in the same vicinity.
‘Eco-City’
is an Architectural and Engineering wonder, the design brief calls for
above standard structural integrity against natural disasters. Balancing the
need to communicate aesthetic preferences and functional requirements with the
benefits to be derived from the unconstrained output of architects and
designers is the goal. It
is well known that the contribution of architects and designers to a finished structure
or landscape extends beyond the aesthetics of the structure or outdoor
environment. Good design can positively influence the way people live and work.
A critical stage in the design process, which directly influences the project’s
outcome and how effective a designer can be, is the formulation of the brief.
The ‘Eco-City’ employs clean Air Circulation
technology, filtered and scrubbed by a state-of-the-art air purification system
to eliminate infectious airborne pathogens. Ultra Violet lamps have proven to
be effective in reducing and eliminating microorganisms, bacteria, fungi, mold
related to allergies, cold and flu viruses and most airborne infection and
airborne transmitted diseases. In addition, carbon is used for reducing and
eliminating bio-aerosols, Volatile Organic Compounds and other gas phase
pollutants. The Circulation of Clean Air is the key and is extensively
addressed in the city’s architectural and engineering designs.
The ‘Eco-City’ will employ the very best and most
advance Water management practices to cost effectively treat liquid
waste and recycle purified drinking quality water, backup by a desalination
plant.
‘Eco-City’
will utilize the very best and most advance Waste management technology addressed
in the city’s architectural and engineering designs, to cost effectively treat
both solid and liquid waste, involving its population in the separation
policies and to fully benefit from recycling materials for use in other
processes.
The ‘Eco-City’ is powered by its own generation
systems, comprising of state-of-the-art technologies and distributed via a
network of substations, with switching capacity between each station. Solar
panels, wind turbines, bio-waste processing and natural gas powered generators
will all feed the city grid. The Electricity distribution internal grid
is designed, with the highest levels of safety and security, to cater to
planned industrial, commercial and domestic requirements with future expansion
capacity built in.
A fully computerized, electrically powered, mass transit and
cargo moving Transportation network is the socioeconomic veins and
arteries of ‘Eco-City’.
With numerous entry and exit points, underground parking and loading bays, no
vehicles are allowed within the city itself. Instead, motorized cable cars and
trains, monitored and controlled from a central point, circulate planned routes
horizontally and vertically.
Highly trained, multi-skilled and experienced Maintenance,
Security and Emergency staff keep ‘Eco-City’ functioning at the highest levels of
efficiency, with cost shared across all profit centers.
‘Eco-City’
Housing is a mixed solution toward affordable living accommodations,
with high-rise apartments, duplex condominiums and single dwelling units, with
two and three bedroom units, intermingling.
Located on higher floors to control public access but fully
equipped to broadcast proceedings, these facilities serve as Judicial Court
Rooms as well as the seat of the elected City Council, which oversees all
operations within, and the inevitable expansion of, ‘Eco-City’.
‘Eco-City’
Community Centers facilities, strategically located for the greatest ease
of public access, are engineered to host numerous types of activities, such as;
cultural and sporting events, private meetings, trade missions, and
conferences, also doubling as disaster shelters.
Catering for early childhood education to precollege and
strategically located, with a full library of computer assisted distance
education learning programs eliminating the need for large lecture halls; ‘Eco-City’
Learning Centers facilities are design to benefit small groups or
individuals, with the cost shared across profit centers.
‘Eco-City’
Religious Centers are specially engineered (soundproof) facilities to
maximize the use of space, with no exterior symbolism, subdividing to avoid
scheduling conflicts, but respectfully preserving indoor traditions, using
image projectors, in the practice of various religions.
Financed
entirely on the contents of its professionally conceptualized preliminary Funding Prospectus, detailing the benefits each economic driver offers and the
add-ons of bringing them all together. The Initial Investors are hoping to gain public support
and, the ultimate
leader of the proposed country, is herein being asked to intervene and fast track all
necessary approvals and permissions. The parliament must also
promote an international investment friendly legislative agenda.
Rationale
T.A.J & Associates Company Limited uses this occasion to comment on topics that have been covered, both academically and by the mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment opportunity, not to invoke any social action.
