China's pollution fuels stateside businesses (San Francisco)

Bay Area architecture and planning firms have a new stream of work coming from China: pollution cleanup.

As the building boom in China has slowed, local architects have turned to the environmental challenges faced by the Asian superpower, which just released a report showing pollution in the country is far worse than previously believed. San Francisco architecture, engineering and landscaping firms are already knee-deep in development projects that focus on pollution cleanup in China. And they believe the new report is likely to open up a flood of new opportunities.

“Every mayor is looking to improve his or her city,” said Michael Duncan, director at the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Read the full story in the San Francisco Business Times.