Using systems analytics, we identify new approaches to planning, designing, and managing next-generation infrastructure that better protects the environment and public health. By focusing on the interdependency of built and natural environments, our work aims to ensure that the decisions we are making about our urban systems enhance both economic vitality and quality of life.

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Our research in this area is designed to examine the relationship between infrastructure, users, air quality, climate change, and health costs, particularly for at-risk populations that are disproportionately impacted by pollution.

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We believe it is necessary to investigate ways to improve funding, financing, and investment to rehabilitate our aging infrastructure, improve daily operations, and build new sustainable construction. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are one way to attract private equity and reinforce conventional public funding mechanisms.

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Our goal is to provide data on specific supply chains in order to guide best practices and policy interventions that will improve food security, promote sustainability, and reinvigorate local and regional economies.

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By confronting the infrastructure challenge in a novel way — both with the methods and technologies we employ as well as the way we conceive the infrastructure business model — our built systems stand a better chance of enduring an opaque future.

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