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- December 08, 2020
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CEE Sustainable Design & Construction Graduate Students Form Kit Switch Group to Promote Adaptive Reuse for Affordable Housing
- Kit Switch offers energy efficient, prefabricated interior kits-of-parts to convert underutilized commercial buildings into sustainable and affordable housing units.
- Students, Cities
- December 08, 2020
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CEE Graduate Student receives ACM BuildSys/SenSys Joint PhD Forum Best Presentation Runner-Up Award
- PhD student Jingxiao Liu wins award based on his PhD project on indirect bridge health monitoring using drive-by vehicles, supported by Leavell fellowship
- Students, Awards, Cities
- December 02, 2020
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ArchDes Lecturers Wasney and Hayes honored by AIA
- Awards, Infrastructure, Cities
- June 02, 2020
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How do we measure the economic fallout from earthquakes?
- A new study looks beyond deaths and property damages to show how a region’s poorest residents would have the greatest difficulty recovering from a disaster.
- Faculty, Infrastructure, Cities
- April 20, 2020
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A more holistic way to measure the economic fallout from earthquakes
- A new study describes the first way to estimate the greater financial fallout that the earthquake would have, especially on the poor.
- In the News, Infrastructure, Cities
- December 09, 2019
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Are the buildings you live and work in making you feel stressed?
- Researchers point the way to buildings that aim to improve human well-being.
- Public Health, Cities, Infrastructure
- July 19, 2019
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Q&A: How do we design buildings that enable occupants to thrive?
- Architectural and digital innovations could help make the indoor spaces we spend so much time in healthier places to be.
- Infrastructure, Cities, Public Health
- July 05, 2019
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Tiny tweak could steer wind power in the right direction
- On a working wind farm, researchers show that angling turbines slightly away from the wind can boost overall energy produced and even out the otherwise variable supply.
- Energy, Infrastructure, Cities
- April 02, 2019
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Experts examine strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal
- The sweeping plan to overhaul transportation, energy and other sectors cites climate change as a “direct threat to the national security of the United States.”
- Energy, Infrastructure, Cities
- January 10, 2019
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Machine learning helps scientists locate nearly all U.S. solar panels
- By using the publicly available data, researchers have identified factors that promote the use of solar energy and those that discourage it.
- Energy, Infrastructure, Cities
- December 05, 2018
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Professor Lepech at Beijing's Future Consensus Forum
- Faculty, Cities, Announcements
- November 27, 2018
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Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster
- Wind, water and quakes can destroy years of valuable development in an instant, but there are ways to build more resilient cities.
- Faculty, Infrastructure, Cities
- November 06, 2018
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How will San Francisco’s skyscrapers fare after the next Big One?
- Stanford civil engineers are working with the city to assess high-rise safety and mitigate any disruption, downtime or lost economic activity should downtown buildings be damaged.
- Faculty, Cities, Infrastructure
- October 12, 2018
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How do we cope with demands for water as we enter an era of scarcity?
- In addition to reusing water, we'll have to augment the supply from reservoirs with recycling, stormwater capture, desalination and other strategies.
- Water, Infrastructure, Public Health
- October 04, 2018
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Balaji Prabhakar: Can digital incentives help alleviate traffic?
- Researchers are reducing traffic congestion and commute times using networks that gently nudge people toward better travel habits.
- Faculty, Cities, Infrastructure
- October 03, 2018
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Capturing and reusing urban storm water could be a boon for water-stressed cities—if we can find a way to clean it up
- In an interview with Environmental Health News, Dick Luthy discusses safe technologies for treating storm water runoff. His group is testing biochars for removal of organics.
- Water, Infrastructure, Public Health
- May 08, 2018
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A field course exposes students to the complexities of creating energy
- Participants traveled to the Columbia River valley to understand the interplay between water, energy and human populations.
- Infrastructure, Cities, Water
- February 14, 2018
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A team of engineers develop a new method of keeping the lights on
- Researchers propose three ways that 100% clean, renewable energy could prevent blackouts.
- Energy, Infrastructure, Cities
- December 20, 2017
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A modeling technique could help buildings and cities breathe easier
- At the Wind Engineering Lab, a team is working to harness a building's natural ventilation to allow it to stay cool or warm up at just the right times.
- Energy, Infrastructure, Cities