Sustainability

Environmental Engineering and Water Resources

  • Conducts a variety of applied, field and analytical research.
  • Studies that include extensive field instrumentation and laboratory studies to better understand the response of in-service structures and materials
  • Development of design procedures for non-traditional structures such as ultra-thin whitetopping pavement
  • Establishing new limits or standards to ultimately expedite permitting procedures
  • Developing a dynamic weather and hydrologic prediction system for intelligent traffic systems
  • Understanding the relationship between transportation need in both the sustainability and construction contexts.