Resilient and Sustainable Structures [A8] 2025

This presentation will summarize new approaches for creating resilient and sustainable structures. Research on resilience highlights the development of structural systems that are able to be returned to use quickly after extreme events. Sustainable structures include systems that greatly decrease the amount of energy, material waste, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions in construction and use of buildings and other structures. For resilient structures, the presentation will highlight work on developing systems that use replaceable, energy-dissipating components to absorb the energy from extreme events while enabling the rem ainder of the structure to remain free of damage. These components may then be replaced after the extreme event to enable speedy occupancy of the structure. For sustainable structures, research will be summarized on Design for Deconstruction through developing modular structural systems that may be taken apart at the end of the useful life of the structure so as to have the components refabricated and reused in future structures rather than recycled or scrapped. In addition, this presentation will highlight research on thermal break strategies for structural systems. By directly addressing resilience and sustainability in structural design, this work offers insights into how engineering innovations can be used to create a new generation of cost-effective solutions for the built environment.

Source: NASCC
Year: 2025

Speaker(s): Jerome Hajjar