Category: Infrastructure
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Solving for ‘what if’: A Q&A on risk with Jim Bagian and Seth Guikema
Co-founders of the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering discuss its history and the increasing need for its expertise.
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How drinking water systems are an untapped resource for grid stability
Water utilities have flexibility as to when they turn the pumps on.
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Transforming cement production with a new electrochemical process
The approach readily synergizes with business-as-usual cement manufacturing.
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Traditional infrastructure design often makes extreme flooding events worse
Massive 2014 flooding event in southeast Michigan showed why systems thinking beats local thinking in flood protection.
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Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami’s power to produce load-bearing structures
Foldable origami with thick panels opens a world of possibilities.
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Building Flint’s trust in its drinking water
Even with lead service line replacement, the city’s water has issues that require public education.
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$7.5 million to predict and communicate flood risk
Engineers, atmospheric scientists, psychologists and anthropologists team up to develop better flood predictions and ensure decision-makers can understand them.
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Flood response and recovery in vulnerable Midwestern communities
A collaboration between engineers and experts from the U-M Center for Social Solutions to address inequity in flood recovery.
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Carbon capture, utilization and storage roadmap reveals technologies that are ready to go
Concrete and construction aggregates could be carbon negative and dollar positive while sustainable aviation fuel and methanol could also turn a profit.
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Making science usable for communities
Fostering local solutions by bridging research and community expertise.
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Bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law: Engineers weigh in
Two experts say the new law could correct historical infrastructure disparities.
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“Robot assistants” project aims to reinvent construction industry
$2M project aims to partner humans with robots for safer jobsites.