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In 2014, crews used about 40,000 cubic metres of concrete made with a slag-and-fly-ash geopolymer binder instead of ordinary Portland cement at Australia's Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport. Its 435-millimeter-thick heavy-duty pavement was used for the turning node, apron and taxiway, which carry scheduled 747 cargo flights bound for Hong Kong.
In 2018, JTC and NParks sank eight reef structures on bare sand off Small Sister's Island; by February 2022 the two left unplanted carried 95 coral colonies from seven genera
Since 2008, British communities have adopted more than 7,200 of BT's abandoned phone boxes for just 1 pound each, turning them into tiny libraries, art galleries and other community spaces. On the Orkney island of Westray, one adopted kiosk now holds one of the island's six public defibrillators.
Hubble and Webb found 27 of the faintest trans-Neptunian objects ever directly seen, including bodies only a few kilometres wide—and unexpectedly found fewer tiny objects than some planet-formation models predicted, suggesting the Kuiper Belt was not ground down by collisions in the way astronomers expected.
