Cities
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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.
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
December 08, 2020
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December 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.
June 02, 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.
April 20, 2020
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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.
December 09, 2019
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October 02, 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.
July 19, 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.
July 05, 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.”
April 02, 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.
January 10, 2019
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December 05, 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.
November 27, 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.
November 06, 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.
October 12, 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.
October 04, 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.
October 03, 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.
May 08, 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.
February 14, 2018
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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.
December 20, 2017