{"556791":{"#nid":"556791","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems\u2019 Work in China","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChina is urbanizing at an unprecedented level.\u0026nbsp; Highways, energy grids, water treatment facilities, indeed, entire cities seem to be springing forth from the Chinese landscape.\u0026nbsp; One of our main topics for research at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems is what we call \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/infrastructure-ecology\u0022\u003EInfrastructure Ecology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; It is becoming obvious to many that the way we have been building infrastructure is not sustainable.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; At the same time, much of the infrastructure in the developed world is nearing the end of its designed lifespan.\u0026nbsp; Urbanized lifestyles are not going away, in fact, they are accelerating.\u0026nbsp; It stands to reason, then, that we need new ways to think about how we build, operate, maintain, and inhabit our cities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor BBISS researchers, the explosion of urban growth in China presents a unique opportunity to propose, design, test, and build more sustainable infrastructure systems whose elements behave more like organisms within an ecological system than machines along a conveyor belt.\u0026nbsp; Please take a look at a survey of BBISS\u0026rsquo;s work, past and present in China.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBBISS director, John C. Crittenden, helped to organize and will be delivering a plenary talk at the upcoming \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.asce.org\/event\/2016\/international-conference-on-sustainable-infrastructure\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure\u003C\/a\u003E (ICSI).\u0026nbsp; The conference will be held in Shenzhen, China from October 17th \u0026ndash; 19\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, 2016.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EA paper was recently published in The Journal of Cleaner Production by BBISS researchers in collaboration with colleagues in China entitled, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0959652616307387\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECourtyard Integrated Ecological System: \u0026nbsp;An Ecological Engineering Practice in China and its Economic-Environmental Benefit\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; This paper analyzes the ecological and financial benefits of integrating energy, water and waste flows into household scale hydroponic, aquaponics, solar, grey\/blackwater, compost, and agricultural systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/504441\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E$1 Million Joint US \u0026ndash; China Study on Sustainable Steel Manufacturing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; - A multidisciplinary research team from Georgia Tech has just been awarded $500,000 over four years to study ways in which steel production in China can be made more sustainable.\u0026nbsp; The grant is being awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).\u0026nbsp; It is matched with a research grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) to a group of Chinese investigators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China\u0026rsquo;s Northeastern University.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProfessor Crittenden travels frequently to China.\u0026nbsp; On one such trip in 2014 he was \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/504761\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003Einducted into the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, one of 16 non-Chinese scientists to receive the honor that year.\u0026nbsp; He also delivered a plenary talk at the International Conference on Engineering Science and Technology 2014 (ICEST 2014) in Beijing.\u0026nbsp; It was during that trip that he had the honor of meeting the President of China, Xi Jinping.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/507011\u0022\u003ETsinghua University Students visit BBISS\u003C\/a\u003E - Eight students and one faculty member from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tsinghua.edu.cn\/publish\/enven\/index.html\u0022\u003ETsinghua University\u0026rsquo;s School of Environment\u003C\/a\u003E visited Georgia Tech for two weeks as part of a student exchange program. It was funded by a cost sharing collaboration between Tsingua University and the BBISS. The exchange provided a cultural and academic forum for students studying many aspects of sustainable urban systems to learn from each other while gaining a cultural perspective that only international travel can foster.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EIn 2012, a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/556801\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003Edelegation from Georgia Tech participated in \u0026ldquo;The China-US Workshop on Environmental Protection and Urban Sustainable Development\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E in Tianjin.\u0026nbsp; It was co-organized by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsfc.gov.cn\/publish\/portal1\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChinese National Natural Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003EU.S. National Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E and co-hosted by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tju.edu.cn\/english\/\u0022\u003ETianjin University\u003C\/a\u003E and Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp; The U.S. delegation of investigators are part of an NSF funded project from the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation - Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (EFRI-RESIN) program called, \u0026ldquo;Sustainable Infrastructures for Energy and Water Supply (SINEWS).\u0026rdquo; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The Chinese delegation is affiliated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/english.rcees.cas.cn\/\u0022\u003EResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES)\u003C\/a\u003E at Tianjin University.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChina is urbanizing at an unprecedented level.\u0026nbsp; Highways, energy grids, water treatment facilities, indeed, entire cities seem to be springing forth from the Chinese landscape.\u0026nbsp; One of our main topics for research at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems is what we call \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/infrastructure-ecology\u0022\u003EInfrastructure Ecology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; It is becoming obvious to many that the way we have been building infrastructure is not sustainable.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; At the same time, much of the infrastructure in the developed world is nearing the end of its designed lifespan.\u0026nbsp; Urbanized lifestyles are not going away, in fact, they are accelerating.\u0026nbsp; It stands to reason, then, that we need new ways to think about how we build, operate, maintain, and inhabit our cities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/brook-byers-institute-sustainable-systems-work-china\u0022\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For BBISS researchers, the explosion of urban growth in China presents a unique opportunity to propose, design, test, and build more sustainable infrastructure systems."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2016-07-29 16:03:41","changed_gmt":"2017-07-27 20:25:37","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"556771":{"id":"556771","type":"image","title":"J. 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