Engineering Sustainability 2015: Innovation and the Triple Bottom Line (ES15)

2015年4月19日至21日，匹兹堡大学马斯卡罗可持续创新中心和卡内基梅隆大学Steinbrenner环境教育与研究所将在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举办“2015工程可持续发展：创新与三重底线”研讨会。本次工程可持续发展会议将包括来自许多专业领域的参与者，并将重点关注与工程可持续建筑环境和水利基础设施相关的问题。这些主题领域本质上是跨学科的，但也有工程作为进步的基础。本次会议将汇集来自学术界、政府、工业界和非营利组织的工程师和科学家，分享针对环境可持续建筑和基础设施（特别是城市水利基础设施）发展的前沿研究和实践成果。该会议的独特之处在于其对城市环境的环境可持续工程的关注，以及将工程师、建筑师、经济学家、城市规划者和管理者聚集在一起的能力。出席目标是375人。大会将围绕以下主题举行全体会议、口头会议和海报会议：绿色建筑设计和建造；绿化室内环境；建筑环境可持续分布式电力；可持续的城市饮用水、雨水和污水基础设施；设计更具可持续性的交通网络；运用可持续发展原则促进创新和新产品开发。还将有许多非正式交流和建立网络的计划机会。工程可持续发展2015将通过提高影响人类健康和环境问题的科学知识水平，进一步提高公众对可持续社区基础设施的兴趣。这次会议还将加强关于环境可持续性研究的跨学科对话，并在基础科学和应用科学中进行交叉应用。这次会议将有学生和年轻教师的大量参与，他们对下一代创新非常重要。关于建筑环境和基础设施可持续工程前沿研究的跨学科报告，与会者所代表的学科和背景的混合，以及会议提供的交流机会，将使与会者在会议结束时获得有关研究需求和机会的新信息和想法。这将加强参与者向美国国家科学基金会和其他资助可持续科学和工程研究的组织提出新颖和有影响力的建议的能力。

1511038 Beckman, Eric J. The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh and the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon University will host Engineering Sustainability 2015: Innovation and the Triple Bottom Line in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from April 19-21, 2015. This Engineering Sustainability conference will include participants from many professional realms, and will focus on issues related to engineering sustainable built environments and water infrastructure. These topical areas are inherently interdisciplinary, but also have engineering as the foundation for progress. Intellectual merit includes that this conference will bring together engineers and scientists from academia, government, industry, and non-profits to share results of cutting edge research and practice directed at development of environmentally sustainable buildings and infrastructure, especially urban water infrastructure. The conference is unique in its focus on environmentally sustainable engineering for the urban environment, and its ability to bring together engineers, architects, economists, and urban planners and managers. The attendance goal is 375 participants. Plenary talks and concurrent oral and poster sessions will be organized around the following themes: green building design and construction; greening the indoor environment; sustainable distributed power for the built environment; sustainable urban drinking water, stormwater, and wastewater infrastructure; design of more sustainable transportation grids; using principles of sustainability to foster innovation and new product development. There will also be numerous planned opportunities for informal exchanges and networking. Engineering Sustainability 2015 will further the public interest in sustainable community infrastructure by advancing the state of scientific knowledge of issues affecting human health and the environment. This conference will also enhance interdisciplinary dialogue on environmental sustainability research with cross-cutting applications in both basic and applied sciences. The conference will have significant participation from students and young faculty members, who are so important to the next generation of innovations. The interdisciplinary presentations on cutting edge research in sustainable engineering for the built environment and infrastructure, the mixture of disciplines and backgrounds represented among the participants, and the networking opportunities provided by the conference will enable participants to leave the conference with new information and ideas about research needs and opportunities. This will strengthen the ability of the participants to develop novel and impactful proposals to NSF and other organizations funding research in sustainability science and engineering.