Workshop on Resilient Infrastructure For Sustainable Communities; Arlington, Virginia; 2014

该奖项支持将于 2014 年举办的研讨会，以确定研究方向，为可持续社区提供弹性建筑和其他民用基础设施。 该研讨会将吸引工程、城市规划、建筑、工程材料、系统设计和社会科学等研究界参与，以确定研究重点，使此类基础设施对社区具有弹性和可持续性。 由于老化、对服务的高要求以及不同的自然和技术危害，我们国家的许多民用基础设施将遭受功能、运营和/或完整性的严重损失。 此外，目前这种民用基础设施的设计、建造、使用、运营、维护和拆除实践在经济和环境上都是不可持续的。 本次研讨会将通过回顾现有知识并确定将这些研究想法付诸实践所需的潜在研究方向和研究工具来缩小这些问题的知识空白。本次研讨会更广泛的影响是制定一个研究议程，该议程可以带来设计、建造和维护建筑物和其他民用基础设施方面的创新，使其具有弹性和可持续性，从而有可能节省成本、能源、材料和其他自然资源。 研讨会将考虑如何利用现有和新的研究工具来改进和扩大研究和技术转让。 通过制定这一研究议程，本次研讨会将促进弹性和可持续民用基础设施的研究，以造福国家福利。

This award supports a workshop, to be held in 2014, to identify research directions to enable resilient buildings and other civil infrastructure for sustainable communities. This workshop will engage research communities, such as engineering, urban planning, architecture, engineered materials, systems design, and social sciences, to identify research priorities for making such infrastructure both resilient and sustainable for communities. Much of our nation's civil infrastructure will experience significant loss of function, operations, and/or integrity due to aging, high demands for services, and different natural and technological hazards. Furthermore, current practice in the design, construction, use, operations, maintenance, and deconstruction of this civil infrastructure is economically and environmentally unsustainable. This workshop will close the gaps in knowledge of these problems by reviewing existing knowledge and identifying potential research directions and research tools needed to put these research ideas to work.The broader impact of this workshop is the creation of a research agenda that can lead to innovations in designing, constructing and maintaining buildings and other civil infrastructure to be both resilient and sustainable, thus potentially yielding savings in cost, energy, materials, and other natural resources. The workshop will consider how existing and new research tools can be harnessed to improve and expand research and technology transfer. By setting this research agenda, this workshop will catalyze research for resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure to benefit the nation's welfare.