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I am excited to be guest editing, together with Dr. Aaron Opdyke (University of Sydney) a Special Issue for the journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050, IF 2.592), entitled " Sheltering and Housing Displaced Populations ". This Special Issue seeks contributions focusing on sheltering and housing in post-disaster settlements. We seek contributions...

Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will, along with Co-PIs Abbie Liel (Structural Engineering) and Matt Koschmann (Communication), received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) program to study post-disaster shelter reconstruction programs in the Philippines and Puerto Rico. With this three-year, $500,000 grant the...

At University of North Carolina’s 2018 Water and Health Conference, University of Colorado Boulder's Kimberly Pugel presented two case studies to highlight a method SWS is using to visualize the priorities of each actor within a network by combining standard network analysis with qualitative interviews. SWS partners are seeking to...

As the international water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector moves towards approaches that strengthen the wider political, social, technical, institutional, and environmental sub-systems that keep WASH infrastructure functioning, there is a growing need to understand the organizations, governments, and people that manage and rely on these sub-systems. As no single...

Amy was incredibly honored to receive the Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction in April 2018. The Daniel W. Halpin award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship that advances construction engineering as a science. For Amy, it was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on her projects, but...

CU Boulder's Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) department received an award from the Department of Education to host a new fellowship program, sponsored by the Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN). Our project is entitled "Integrative Reengineering of Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Communities". This project aims to increase...

Explore our findings from 3 years of longitudinal research on humanitarian shelter projects in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan in our new animated video!

Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will, along with PhD student Casie Venable and Co-PIs Abbie Liel (Structural Engineering) and Danielle Rivera (Environmental Design), received an Innovative Seed Grant from the University of Colorado to study housing in the aftermath of the April 2016 earthquake in Ecuador. With this grant, the team will examine how communities participate in rebuilding housing, how these rebuilt houses are expected to perform, and the link between participation and performance.

The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead a $15.3 million effort to better understand how to improve the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in the developing world. Globally, more than 2.4 billion people lack access to...

The United States is experiencing a major expansion of domestic oil and gas production. These activities involve large amounts of water, both in hydraulic fracturing and in reservoir production, and the energy boom has been accompanied by a major increase in wastewater disposal by injection. There is growing evidence that...