Author: Fernanda Cruz Rios

In the last two decades coastal urban areas have taken steps to better minimize flooding and runoff by creating more permeable surfaces and encouraging residents to participate in water retention and use-reduction programs. These efforts, ranging from adding rain barrels and cisterns, to installing water-efficient fixtures, are making a difference, according to new research from…

Check out this Drexel News piece about a collaboration between Amanda Carneiro Marques, Ph.D. , Franco Montalto, and I 🙂 This project was funded by the Longsview Fellowship at Drexel, and if you’re wondering about the environmental impacts of the strategies we modeled, there’s another paper coming out soon. Check it out: Household Water Fixes…

Congratulations to Cagla Keles, CIRCLE lab’s PhD candidate whose paper published last year was selected as Editor’s choice 😊🎉 Well done, Cagla! Access her paper here: Digital Technologies and Circular Economy in the Construction Sector: A Review of Lifecycle Applications, Integrations, Potential, and Limitations

Have you ever wondered about the impacts of circular economy in urban resilience? What would happen if the City invested in household strategies like rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, and high-efficient water fixtures like showerheads, toilets, and washing machines in a dense flood-prone neighborhood with combined sewer systems? Would that help reduce flooding and combined sewer…

See the whole story here: Senior Design Team Tackles Affordable Housing With Mass Timber Proposal | Drexel Engineering or read below: A team of five senior civil and architectural engineering students is working to address Philadelphia’s affordable housing shortage with a mixed-use development proposal for a long-vacant site in the city’s Hunting Park neighborhood, and…