Category: News and Updates

Read the full article here: For Green Building, ‘Durable Is the New ‘Sustainable’

Excited to share that our team has received NSF funding for LEAPS: Leading the Engineering Profession Towards Sustainability through Purpose, Belonging, and Creative Problem Solving. LEAPS is a three-year study exploring how sustainability-centered engineering education shapes students as they become engineers: their sense of purpose and belonging in the profession, their creative problem-solving, and their…

It’s raining hard in Philadelphia right now, flood watches are out as I write this. It’s a fitting moment to share my first paper as a solo author, just out in the Journal of Industrial Ecology! It bothers me when sustainability and resilience are treated as competing objectives in building design. Sure, you often need…

Engineering for One Planet convening: What an amazing experience! I can’t wait for next year’s event with this wonderful group of purple. Our passion and commitment, and sometimes sheer willpower (and wining personalities hahaha) gave me the hope and motivation I needed to keep working toward our shared goals. Which is basically to keep trying…

 I had the pleasure of being the inaugural guest for the 3rd cohort of the Building Climate Career program, by The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel University, hosted by Miles Levesque and Dr. D.S. (Diana) Nicholas PhD, NCIDQ, AIA, LEED GA. Today, I received Miles’s summary of my talk about my career path, challenges, and outlook.…

It’s a wrap for hashtag#ISSST2026! Had a great time meeting like-minded, passionate people working in sustainability and systems thinking across so many different fields. Here’s the tally: ✅ 9 hours on the Amtrak (plus 9 more to come);✅ 3 days of conference packed with inspiring work in urban sustainability, infrastructure resilience, climate justice, life cycle…

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