Research Thrusts
Research in the Center for Engineering and Resilience for Climate Adaptation cuts across all three of Civil and Environmental department’s graduate focus areas: AIS, EESS, MMC.
Related ongoing research is finding solutions for buildings, energy, materials, transportation, and water infrastructure across the following interconnected research thrusts:
Data-Driven and Automated Resilience
- Resiliency situational awareness through sensing and data analytics
- Infrastructure network and complexity modeling
- Self-healing infrastructure systems
- Risk reduction through coupled automated-natural systems
Regional Projection of Climate Change Impacts for Engineering Designs
- Using downscaled regional climate information for infrastructure decisions
- Development of tools appropriate for specific infrastructure and regions
- Understanding systems impacts across multiple types of infrastructure
- Characterization and management of uncertainty
Adaptable Engineered and Natural Infrastructure
- Retrofitting existing infrastructure with novel integrated engineered and natural infrastructure
- New adaptable designs that can be updated in the future
- Planning and designing resilient infrastructure in emerging economies
- Technology for high-performance adaptive urban infrastructure
Understanding Human-Infrastructure Interaction Under Climate Change
- Social acceptance, risk perception, and life cycle costs
- Interactions between hazards and human impacts
- Novel people-focused designs for adaptation
- Social response to changing heat, water, fire, and wind conditions