Civil Engineering is about creating, improving and protecting the environment in which we live. It provides the facilities needed for commerce, industry and day-to-day life, such as water and energy supply, transport and buildings. This is and has always been done against a background of change.
However the rate of change is now increasingly rapid, bringing a number of challenges arising from an increasing and ageing population accompanied by increasing urbanisation, a vast infrastructure legacy that needs to be maintained or replaced, and the need to move to a low carbon economy, whilst not further compromising biodiversity. This is not being driven by a single issue (such as climate change) but is the result of the complex interaction of many pressures bumping up against what the planet can actually provide. We have therefore chosen to frame the future research agenda within the context of planetary boundaries, as recently proposed by the science community.
For more information, please contact Rose Marney (rose.marney@ice.org,uk)
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