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Flood detection for communities, by communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Who gets included in designing resilience? Research and flood solutions go beyond the lab. By involving community leaders, local government agencies and even high school students, the University of Georgia’s Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) is rethinking how flood mitigation systems are designed. An interdisciplinary effort in San Juan, Puerto Rico is focused on helping residents build resilience…
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Out of the classroom, into the wild: Students gain field experiences in natural infrastructure
It’s not every day that your class syllabus recommends muck boots. But for students enrolled in ENVE 8330: Field Experiences in Natural Infrastructure, the dress code is part of the lesson. Over a long weekend in March, graduate students traded lecture halls for salt marshes, barrier islands and historic coastal sites, immersing themselves in the real-world ways communities manage changing…
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Students reimagine retired school buildings to revitalize Georgia small towns
What do you do with an empty building? These students want to give vacant spaces new life. A crew of engineering and landscape architecture students in last fall’s Sustainable Buildings Design course had a unique final project: designing new futures for disused school buildings. These adaptive re-use projects focused on retired elementary schools in Tennille (Washington County) and Bowman (Elbert…
