Conference: Research Network for Sustainable Urban Infrastructure - Summer 2019. To Be Held At Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

运转良好、有弹性、可持续的基础设施系统对美国经济至关重要。美国人依赖电力、道路和其他运输系统、食品和燃料输送、安全饮用水和有效的废物管理。通信服务需要随时随地工作。所有这些基础设施服务都需要以低成本和广泛的可访问性提供。新技术和经济发展正在改变对这些基础设施的要求和期望，即使成本继续上升。具有不同技能和观点的工程师、科学家和利益相关者将齐聚一堂，参加为期两天的研讨会，探讨提高美国城市和地区基础设施系统效率、可持续性和弹性的新方法。讲习班将开展科学合作，以促进对城市系统基础设施的了解。参与者将寻求能够有效协同工作并支持其所服务的社区的综合系统的机会。拥有低收入社区创新、新技术、新兴工程和科学专业知识的研究人员和从业人员将共同努力，为新的教育计划、研究和实际项目奠定基础，这些项目可以在美国各地进行测试和复制。为期两天的会议将于2019年夏季举行，旨在为解决城市基础设施可持续性中持续存在的、复杂的和新出现的问题提供新的视角。会议将促进新的行业、政府和非政府组织与学术界的合作。多样化的参与者将带来一系列专业知识和经验，以深入构建基础设施系统的挑战。会议参与者将超越他们目前的工作，阐明并在城市可持续性方面做出新的努力，与实践者合作，改善城市成果。会议将在乔治亚州亚特兰大市的佐治亚理工学院校园举行。一些研究框架和实际方法正在出现，这些框架和方法可以深入了解城市系统的组成部分——基础设施、社区、小尺度和大尺度以及不同地理环境下的动态如何相互作用，以及它们如何随时间变化。本次会议汇集了不同的专家，将理解城市系统的方法，包括基础设施生态学、生物启发设计、复杂系统和超大规模计算能力，与包括企业可持续发展倡议、社区公平和正义以及经济转型的新技术平台在内的实践者方法联系起来。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Functioning, resilient, sustainable infrastructure systems are essential to the U.S. economy. Americans depend on electricity, roads and other transport systems, food and fuel deliveries, safe drinking water, and effective waste management. Communication services need to work, everywhere and all the time. All these infrastructure services need to be delivered at low cost with broad accessibility. New technologies and economic development are shifting the requirements and expectations for these infrastructures, even while costs continue to rise. Engineers, scientists, and stakeholders with diverse skills and perspectives will come together in a two-day workshop to examine new approaches for improving the efficiency, sustainability, and resilience of the infrastructure systems of U.S. cities and regions. The workshop will develop scientific collaborations to advance the understanding of infrastructures in urban systems. Participants will seek opportunities for integrated systems that can work together efficiently and that support the communities that they serve. Researchers and practitioners with expertise spanning low-income neighborhood innovations, new technologies, and emerging engineering and science will work together to develop a foundation for new educational programs, research, and real projects that can be tested and replicated across the United States. The two-day conference will be held in the summer of 2019 to develop new perspectives for addressing persistent, complex, and emerging problems in urban infrastructure sustainability. The conference will catalyze new industry, government, and NGO collaborations with academia. A diversity of participants will bring a range of expertise and experience for deep framing of the challenges of infrastructure systems. Conference participants will reach beyond their current work to articulate and create new efforts in urban sustainability, partnering with practitioners to improve urban outcomes. The conference will be held on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Several research frameworks and practical approaches are emerging that can provide insights into how the components of urban systems the infrastructures, and the communities, the dynamics at smaller scales and at larger scales, and in different geographical circumstances interact, and how they change over time. This conference brings together diverse experts to connect approaches for understanding urban systems, that include infrastructure ecology, biologically inspired design, complex systems, and mega-scale computational capability with practitioner approaches that include corporate sustainability initiatives, community-based equity and justice, and new technology platforms for economic transformation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.