This involves moving beyond simply controlling the environment to provide comfort and safety, toward managing human impacts on the environment and protecting resources for future generations.
It addresses four main pillars:
• Improving human life: health, comfort, safety, productivity, and quality of life.
• Managing environmental resources: water, energy, waste, air, soil, and ecosystems.
• Sustainable engineering: efficiency, resilience to climate change, and the circular economy.
• Practical applications: water management, agriculture, cities, buildings, and industry.
Core message:
Engineering has enabled us to control the environment to serve people. The engineering of the future must manage human impacts on the environment to achieve a better quality of life and long-term sustainability.
