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    Civil engineers are developing innovative solutions to sustainability challenges facing growing cities, including plastic roads, green roof systems, eco floating homes, vertical farming, and rainwater harvesting. Plastic roads use waste plastic in construction and are required in large Indian cities. Germany leads in green roofs, which provide environmental benefits. Eco floating homes resist floods using concrete and Styrofoam foundations. Vertical farms use less water and fertilizer than traditional farms while producing more food for dense urban areas. Rainwater harvesting systems capture and store rainwater to prevent oversaturation and provide drinking water. Advanced civil engineering is needed to address issues like housing, transportation, and resource demands in highly populated cities.

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    Civil engineers are developing innovative solutions to sustainability challenges facing growing cities, including plastic roads, green roof systems, eco floating homes, vertical farming, and rainwater harvesting. Plastic roads use waste plastic in construction and are required in large Indian cities. Germany leads in green roofs, which provide environmental benefits. Eco floating homes resist floods using concrete and Styrofoam foundations. Vertical farms use less water and fertilizer than traditional farms while producing more food for dense urban areas. Rainwater harvesting systems capture and store rainwater to prevent oversaturation and provide drinking water. Advanced civil engineering is needed to address issues like housing, transportation, and resource demands in highly populated cities.

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    Civil engineers are developing innovative solutions to sustainability challenges facing growing cities, including plastic roads, green roof systems, eco floating homes, vertical farming, and rainwater harvesting. Plastic roads use waste plastic in construction and are required in large Indian cities. Germany leads in green roofs, which provide environmental benefits. Eco floating homes resist floods using concrete and Styrofoam foundations. Vertical farms use less water and fertilizer than traditional farms while producing more food for dense urban areas. Rainwater harvesting systems capture and store rainwater to prevent oversaturation and provide drinking water. Advanced civil engineering is needed to address issues like housing, transportation, and resource demands in highly populated cities.

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    Innovations in Civil Engineering

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    Innovations in Civil

    Engineering
    • With overcrowding, resource demands are increased, and as cities
    grow, urban environments may face more pressure in their attempts
    to provide large urban populations with sustainable supportive
    infrastructures like food, water, and safe roads. Advanced civil
    engineers are needed now more than ever to provide solutions to
    these critical issues; below are several developing innovations
    currently being used around the world to improve socio-
    environmental sustainability.
    Plastic Roads
    • India’s government began experimenting with plastic roads during the
    early 2000s, with waste plastic being used as a construction material.
    • Jambulingam Street in Chennai—one of the first plastic roads
    • As of 2015, any Indian city with a population of at least 500,000 is
    required to construct their roads using waste plastic as a core
    material, in efforts to promote greater pollution control and
    environmental sustainability for Indian communities.
    Green Roof Systems
    • The Environmental Protection Agency defines a green roof as a “vegetative
    layer grown on a rooftop.” Today, green roof systems have become popular all
    over the world, not only for their beauty, but also for the benefits they
    provide toward environmental sustainability.
    • Germany is currently leading the world in green roof technologies, and they
    have implemented green roofing systems on approximately 10% of German
    homes since the technology emerged in the early 1970s. Civil engineers are
    responsible for ensuring that the green roof’s supportive infrastructure—for
    instance, a comprehensive watering system—is engineered to consistently
    deliver an appropriate amount of resources, and the roof itself must be
    designed to effectively provide working improvements to environmental
    sustainability.
    Eco Floating Homes
    • practical living spaces that sit upon the water
    • The homes are designed to resist floods by floating on top of water
    using a foundation of concrete and Styrofoam, which makes them
    virtually unsinkable.
    Vertical Farming
    • Using multistory high-rises to grow food is known as “vertical farming,” and
    The Association for Vertical Farming has found that, when compared with
    traditional agricultural methods, growing food indoors uses 98 percent less
    water and 70 percent less fertilizer on average.
    • Many entrepreneurs and scientists are currently evaluating how growing
    food inside of buildings coincides with improving social and environmental
    sustainability. Vertical farms also have higher yields than traditional farms,
    allowing the production of more food, using far less urban space. Significant
    progress in the study of vertical farming could lead to improved food
    diversity, especially for residents of population-dense urban areas and in
    places that are normally unable to grow produce using traditional methods.
    Rainwater Harvesting
    • a climate adaptation strategy that has been used in many ancient and
    modern societies.
    • The antiquated rainwater harvesting techniques of the past were
    attempts to cope with severe climate conditions by storing the water
    as it fell, allowing populations to drink the water or prevent
    oversaturation of the land during extreme precipitation. Modern
    rainwater harvesting is fundamentally the same in theory, but
    advancements in science and engineering have introduced
    sophisticated filtration and rain-capturing technologies that boost the
    efficiency of the process.
    • Large cities often come with many social benefits, but there will
    always be disadvantages to having large populations that are
    constricted to a finite amount of space. Ensuring that humans can live
    sustainably in highly populated urban environments requires creative
    solutions to infrastructural issues like road safety, housing crises, and
    food and water shortages. An advanced degree in civil engineering
    will provide an individual with an in-depth understanding of the
    environmental, structural, and infrastructural engineering knowledge
    required to work with the civil engineering innovations listed above

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