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Resilient adaptive strategies

Engineering to adapt to a changing planet

The world’s rapidly changing climate demands a holistic approach to engineering that emphasizes social and cultural constraints in addition to traditional technical and economic considerations. Berkeley Engineering’s research efforts focus on helping communities build resilience and adapt to future climate conditions, from severe drought to wildfires to floods.

Katya Rakhmatulina preps time-lapse cameras to deploy in the Illilouette Creek Basin.

Katya Rakhmatulina preps time-lapse cameras to deploy in the Illilouette Creek Basin. Read more about Katya’s work in restoring natural fire regimes in California.

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Adaptive Reuse of Buildings and Prefabricated Construction

Adaptive Reuse of Buildings and Prefabricated Construction

Civil Engineering Professor Arpad Horvath has been working on a project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry. The project involves adapting non-residential buildings into apartments through prefabricated construction methods.

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Third cohort of the Master of Development Engineering program at Blum Hall.
Berkeley Water Center researchers in the lab
Héctor García Martín, a staff scientist in the Biosciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Agile BioFoundry, is working to accelerate and refine this R&D landscape by applying AI and. mathematical tools.