Category: Engineering

Climate Impact Depreciation Quantification

Climate Impact Depreciation Quantification

11/24/20

“How can we quantify how climate impacts will affect asset depreciation?”

Aging naturally chips away at asset values. However, climate change is going to disrupt this to a whole new level. As weather and earth conditions become more chaotic, more damages are expected to be withstood, shortening the expected life and value of assets affected. By using Climate Impact Depreciation Quantification, we can analytically find how these force can shorten an asset’s life.

Quantitative Transportation Analysis

Quantitative Transportation Analysis

11/23/20

“How can we apply quantitative methods to transportation analysis?”

Transportation analysis is vital for our everyday lives. It allows us to design cities to meet our needs and get us from point a to point b. By bringing mathematical methods to this, we can create Quantitative Transportation Analysis that can deliver a great deal of optimality to our infrastructure systems. Quantitative transportation analysis is one of the pillars that makes our lives just so much better.

Climate Adaptation Redesign

Climate Adaptation Redesign

11/22/20

“Why will we need to redesign everything for climate impacts?”

Climate change is upending everything in society. As such, our designs for everything we had in the past will need to change as well. This Climate Adaptation Redesign is going to become a part of our everyday life.

Climate Adaptation Planning

Climate Adaptation Planning

11/19/20

“How can we make plans to adapt to climate change?”

Climate adaptation is something that all areas of the globe are going to have to plan for. To accomplish this, they are going to have to look into Climate Adaptation Planning, whether this be through trimming trees for wildfire preparation or creating porous sidewalks for extreme flooding.

Home Hardening Adaptation Programs

Home Hardening Adaptation Programs

11/17/20

“How can governments institute programs to harden community homes against the effects of climate change?”

Home hardening is one of the most effective ways to adapt to climate change, whether it be for preventing wildfire damage or flooding. However, sometimes leaving everything up to individual mandate won’t solve things by themselves. Home Hardening Adaptation Programs may need to be implemented through mandates and subsidizations. These can ease the stress on people can produce more resilient communities.

How Housing Densification Can Protect Against Sea-Level Rise

How Housing Densification Can Protect Against Sea-Level Rise

11/16/20

“How can housing densification protect against sea-level rise?”

With the advent of climate change, sea-level rise is going to consume more and more land available for people to live. To accommodate the people who will be forced to move, housing densification can occur in safe areas away from flood zones, leading to a more available living space and an adapted, resilient future. This is How Housing Densification Can Protect Against Sea-Level Rise.

Resilience Funding

Resilience Funding

11/15/20

“How will resilience projects be financed?”

Whether we like it or not, climate change has arrived and will be here to stay. Communities and infrastructure are going to be devastated, and it’s important to make sure too much tragedy, particularly for vulnerable communities, will not occur. This can be solved using Resilience Funding, in which special funds are permitted to finance updates to infrastructure.

Telehealth

Telehealth

11/12/20

“How can we have medicine be done without physical contact?”

For most of human history, medical professionals had to help their patients only through in-person methodologies. However, with the arrival of advanced information technology, this no longer has to be the case. Telehealth allows practitioners to deliver care remotely, whether it be a simple checkup or a robotic surgery.

Industrial Pollution in Lakes

Industrial Pollution in Lakes

11/10/20

“Why do lakes become filled with industrial pollution?”

Lakes can be found aplenty in numerous areas. Since pollution is easy to hide in water sources, industrial pollution is often dumped in lakes. This is why Industrial Pollution in Lakes is an endemic problem.