US-Israel Workshop on Industrial Ecology in Multi-Scale Design and Construction of Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure

1340206(格雷斯)。民用基础设施的设计和建设在整个生命周期中对环境、社会和经济更负责任，从提取原材料到使用寿命结束管理，在世界范围内越来越受欢迎。总之，改善环境、社会和经济绩效的这三个设计目标通常被称为可持续发展的三重底线。作为一套支持我们的生活质量并在消耗大量物质资源和能源的同时实现全球发展和进步的关键系统，民用基础设施，特别是城市，必须根据这些全面的、长期的设计目标进行设计，以造福我们的地球以及将其称为家园的当代和未来的人类、动物和植物。为了发现新的方法和工具，将工业生态整合到建筑环境的多尺度设计和施工中，劳伦斯理工大学创新材料研究中心(CIMR)和斯坦福大学土木与环境工程系与以色列海法以色列理工学院的Technion联合举办了为期三天的研讨会。这次研讨会将在以色列举行。NSF将为美国代表团15名成员的旅费和研讨会注册提供必要的支持。由于美国目前正计划在可持续建筑环境系统内发展可持续建筑和建设基础设施，计划有致力于可持续城市环境的以色列研究人员和从业者以及致力于在我们的建筑环境中实现类似目标的美国研究人员参与。预计将有以色列和美国各地从事绿色建筑设计、将非化石能源系统整合到建筑元素、可持续建筑材料工程、城市规划和设计以及工业生态系统分析等研究的研究实验室参加。拟议的讲习班将促进双边思想交流。为期三天的研讨会将汇集研究人员，讨论建筑和城市设计的工业生态方法论、可持续城市系统的多尺度设计以及可持续建筑材料的工程。它将解决建筑环境设计中的环境、经济和社会问题，并将讨论使用三重底线衡量标准的创新材料的影响。拟议讲习班的一个主要目标是提高学术界内外对可持续建筑环境问题的教育和认识。将根据社会经济和环境方面的考虑，就采用最合适的技术提出建议。研讨会的一个重要成果将是一套建议，总结在城市地区建设可持续建筑环境中实施创新设计和材料的最佳实践和可接受的方法。研讨会将汇集研究人员和思想家，讨论工业生态学的主题，如概率生命周期分析(LCA)和概率可持续设计方法，以及在环境敏感和资源有限的地区创造创新材料在绿色建筑设计和可持续基础设施设计中的使用。研讨会的另一个重要产品将是最佳实践和新兴工业生态工具和方法的目录，可用于在不断增长的建成环境中设计和评估新材料、结构和系统。该资源旨在促进绿色建筑、交通系统和城市环境的新材料和新技术的快速采用，从而提高经济、社会和环境绩效。

1340206 (Grace). The design and construction of civil infrastructure that is more environmentally, socially, and economically responsible over its full life cycle from extraction of raw construction materials to end of life management is increasingly desirable worldwide. Altogether these three design goals of improved environmental, social, and economic performance are commonly known as the triple bottom line of sustainability. As a critical set of systems that support our quality of life and enable global development and progress while consuming vast amounts of material resources and energy, it is essential that civil infrastructure, in particular cities, are designed according to these comprehensive, long term design goals for the benefit of our planet and the current and future generations of humans, animals, and plants that will call it home. With the aim of discovering new ways and tools to integrate industrial ecology within the multi-scale design and construction of built environments, a three-day long workshop is being organized by the Center for Innovative Materials Research (CIMR) of Lawrence Tech University and the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University, in conjunction with Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. This workshop will be held in Israel. NSF will provide necessary support for travel expenses and workshop registration of the 15 members of the US delegate team. As efforts are currently being planned in the US toward developing sustainable buildings and building infrastructure within sustainable built environment systems, it is planned to have participation from Israeli researchers and practitioners working on sustainable urban environments and US researchers working towards similar goals in our built environments. Participation from various research laboratories throughout Israel and the US that are engaged in the research of green building design, integration of non-fossil-based energy systems into building elements, engineering of sustainable building materials, urban planning and design, and industrial ecology systems analysis is anticipated. The bilateral exchange of ideas will be facilitated by the proposed workshop. The three-day workshop will bring together researchers to discuss topics on the methodology of industrial ecology for building and city design, multi-scale design of sustainable urban systems, and engineering of sustainable building materials. It will address environmental, economic, and social concerns in built environment design, and deliberations will be held on the impact of innovative materials using triple-bottom-line metrics. A major goal of the proposed workshop will be to increase education and awareness of sustainable built environment issues both within and outside of academia. Recommendations will be made in adoption of the most suitable technologies in the context of socio-economic and environmental considerations. One important workshop product will be a set of recommendations summarizing the best practices and acceptable methods for implementing innovative designs and materials in the construction of sustainable built environments in urban areas.The workshop will bring together researchers and thinkers to discuss topics on industrial ecology, such as probabilistic life cycle analysis (LCA) and probabilistic sustainability design approaches, and their use when creating innovative materials in green building design and sustainable infrastructure design in environmentally sensitive and resource-limited areas. Another important product of this workshop will be a catalogue of best practices and emerging industrial ecology tools and methods that can be used for the design and evaluation of new materials, structures, and systems in growing built environments. This resource is intended to facilitate the rapid adoption of new materials and technologies for green buildings, transportation systems, and urban environments that exhibit improved economic, social, and environmental performance