Structural Engineering & Structural Mechanics
CPR News recently highlighted Associate Professor Mija Hubler's innovative, bacteria-based alternative to concrete and her appearance in the documentary "Women of Carbon." Her sustainable building material is helping reduce the carbon footprint of construction.
CEAE welcomes Assistant Professor Eduardo Montalto, who researches affordable seismic protection systems for extreme building conditions.
Professor Abbie Liel and colleagues have identified building code features that have the biggest impact on hazard resilience and translated those features into tangible, practical building solutions. The findings were published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
The event, which drew 166 participants to CU Boulder’s campus, marked an industry-wide step toward cutting emissions tied to building materials like steel and concrete.
In this 2025 edition of CU Engineering (CUE) magazine, CEAE researchers tackle pressing challenges—such as the increasing frequency and severity of hurricanes, wildfires and floods—head-on, developing innovative solutions to repair aging infrastructure and build a more resilient future.
Professor Abbie Liel’s research, recently published in Fire Technology, examined destruction patterns from the December 2021 Marshall Fire, which killed two people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Boulder County.
Researchers from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering share key lessons from post-Marshall Fire rebuilding to help Los Angeles homeowners and others navigate recovery after wildfires.
In this opinion piece, Professor Abbie Liel and Susan Ostermann, Liel's collaborator from the University of Notre Dame, share lessons learned on housing resilience from their NSF-funded research with Lahaina fire survivors.
Professor Abbie Liel and her collaborator Susan Ostermann at Notre Dame are exploring solutions for building homes that can withstand disasters like hurricanes and fires.
CEAE's Kyri Baker, Mija Hubler and JH Song won Deloitte Climate Innovation Collaboratory awards for translating research into solutions.