Northeastern Students Recognized at the National EPA RainWorks Challenge
Two CEE seniors, Greg Coyle, and Aaron Barbosa, were part of an interdisciplinary team of Northeastern students who won Honorable Mention in the 2015 EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge – Demonstration Project category with their project “Recharging the City: Social Experience and Programmatic Flexibility”.
In 2015, seventy-seven student teams from 26 states submitted green infrastructure designs for the fourth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge. These projects show how managing stormwater at its source can benefit the community and environment by reducing the burden on local water infrastructure, managing local flooding, reducing urban heat islands, and lowering energy demands. This round of competition encouraged students to learn about the current or potential impacts of climate change on campus and demonstrated how using green infrastructure practices on their campuses can build resiliency to those impacts while effectively managing stormwater runoff.
Special thanks to Annalisa Onnis-Hayden, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Michelle Laboy, School of Architecture (College of Arts, Media & Design) who were the advisors for the group, and congratulations to all involved!