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Current Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction News
The engineering professor reflects on her journey from baking cakes to cover living expenses to becoming an expert in technology development for water and wastewater systems.
Shashi Nambisan, director of UNLV’s Transportation Research Center, explores sustainable solutions for a robust and efficient transportation system.
Interdisciplinary research team led by the College of Engineering explores innovation in wastewater reuse at the household level.
The Engineering Alumna of the Year builds her own construction management company — and keeps her alma mater in mind every step of the way.
The international programs director puts UNLV Engineering on the (global) map.
The engineering professor shares his vision for faculty development as the director for the refreshed Teaching and Learning Commons.
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction In The News
Here in Clark County, we recycle 99 percent of the water we use indoors via several treatment facilities—but plants like that are a luxury few rural communities can afford. So, what will people there do if the drought gets so bad the pipes run dry? Graduate students in UNLV’s School of Engineering may be close to finding an answer.
Research groups at UNLV are working to find a solution to the scarce water situation in Southern Nevada.
“Can you imagine a day when you turn on your faucet and no water comes out?” The hypothetical question, posed by a research team at UNLV, is called a “Day Zero” scenario. It sounds like the plot of a doomsday apocalypse series but it’s not as unimaginable - or as far-fetched - as a Hollywood screenplay might seem.
UNLV became the first school in the Nevada System of Higher Education to launch a plan to address climate change, unveiling it at a kickoff event on Friday afternoon. Known as the Rebel Climate Action Plan (CAP), the document is a roadmap for how the school will meet its goal of slashing its greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2030 and becoming net zero by the university’s 100th birthday in 2057. Net zero refers to a state where the carbon dioxide UNLV is putting into the atmosphere is offset with the amount removed, thus not contributing to warming.
UNLV became the first school in the Nevada System of Higher Education to launch a plan to address climate change, unveiling it at a kickoff event on Friday afternoon. Known as the Rebel Climate Action Plan (CAP), the document is a roadmap for how the school will meet its goal of slashing its greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2030 and becoming net zero by the university’s 100th birthday in 2057. Net zero refers to a state where the carbon dioxide UNLV is putting into the atmosphere is offset with the amount removed, thus not contributing to warming.
UNLV is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2057, officials announced today. UNLV is the first Nevada System of Higher Education institution to launch a climate action plan, UNLV President Keith Whitfield said in a recorded message. Called Rebel CAP, the plan will act as a roadmap for sustainability around campus
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