Sustainable Engineering Decisions in Disaster Recovery
| Author(s): |
Gregory Parsons
(Builders Engineering Corp., USA)
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|---|---|
| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 |
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 |
| Page(s): | 961-962 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.0948 |
| Abstract: |
This article describes a simple method for considering sustainability aspects when making engineering related disaster recovery decisions. The method is applied to the recovery decisions of an unprecedented storm in Columbia SC USA, where a canal dike failure threatened the city’s drinking water supply and disabled their hydroelectric power plant. |
| Keywords: |
sustainability repurpose historic preservation disaster recovery urban park
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