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Partnerships
within Georgia Tech
SFI benefits from its relationships with a variety of other programs,
centers, initiatives, and institutes at Georgia Institute of Technology.
These partnerships include:
- Safety,
Health, & Environmental Technology Division (SHETD), Georgia
Tech Research Institute
The parent organization of SFI, SHETD is home to over 65 researchers,
educators, and support staff engaged in projects related to the
environment, occupational safety and health, industrial hygeine,
and technology transfer. SHETD hosts the SFI program center and
provides computing, multimedia, and prototyping/fabrication equipment,
interior and exterior laboratory space, management, and support
services for SFI programs.
- Construction
Engineering & Management Program (CEM), School of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, Georgia Tech
With its focus on construction processes, technologies, organizations,
and management, Georgia Tech's CEM faculty provide expertise in
environmentally conscious design and construction, construction
organizations, constructability, design-construction integration,
and project alignment. SFI researchers work with CEM faculty in
the areas of project alignment, facilitation of organizational change,
cost-effective engineering practices in capital project development,
and environmentally conscious design and construction.
- Building
Construction Program (BC), College of Architecture, Georgia
Tech
Georgia Tech's Building Construction Program is home to the Construction
Research Center, Facilities Management Program, and other programs
that complement SFI's capabilities. Building Construction faculty
have nationally and internationally known expertise in construction
economics and cost management, automation, and indoor air quality,
and collaborate with SFI faculty on a per-project basis. SFI researchers
work with BC faculty on a variety of projects, including alternative
cost modelling, e-commerce in the construction industry, resource
allocation for technology development, and the economics of green
building.
- Initiative for
Community Outreach, Research, and Education (ICORE), Georgia
Tech Research Institute
The Initiative for Community for Community Outreach, and Education
(ICORE) seeks to build a community-integrated research and development
program focused on addressing the needs of neighborhoods in the
metropolitan Atlanta area and throughout the State of Georgia. A
central focus of this program is the restoration of environmentally
impaired properties within an overall context of economic redevelopment
of a community. SFI researchers work with ICORE staff to ensure
that sustainability concepts are addressed during any neighborhood
effort.
- Technical
Outreach Services to Communities (TOSC)/Technical Assistance
to Brownfields (TAB), Georgia Tech Research Institute
The Hazardous Substance
Research Centers (HSRC) program provides free technical assistance
to communities with environmental contamination programs through
two distinct, but interrelated, outreach efforts:
Technical Outreach for Communities (TOSC) uses university educational
and technical resources to help community groups understand the
technical issues involving the hazardous waste sites in their midst.
TOSC aims to empower communities to participate substantively in
the decision-making process regarding their hazardous substance
problems.
Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB) helps communities
to clean and redevelop properties that have been damaged or undervalued
by environmental contamination. The purpose of these efforts is
to create better jobs, increase the local tax base, improve neighborhood
environments, and enhance the overall quality of life.
SFI personnel and TOSC and TAB outreach staff work together to ensure
that the empowerment and redevelopment of America's communities
is done within the context of overall sustainability.
- Foundations
for the Future (F3), Georgia Tech Research Institute
F3 researchers and staff work with the SFI team in multiple arenas,
including design of training and project alignment programs, program
evaluation, public outreach, and the Sustainable, Scalable Schools
(S3) project.
- Economic
Development Institute (EDI), Georgia Tech
EDI researchers collaborate with the SFI team in multiple areas,
including technical assistance and educational programs on sustainable
economic development, measurement of sustainability, and energy
efficiency.
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Partnerships outside Georgia Tech
- Army Environmental
Policy Institute (AEPI), Atlanta, GA
Through the Georgia Tech Research Institute, SFI enjoys a formal
partnership with AEPI and supports its efforts in sustainable facility
policy development, sustainable military installations, transfer
of environmental technologies, and decision making for resource
allocation toward environmental quality.
- Southface Energy
Institute, Atlanta, GA
SFI researchers work with Southface personnel on a variety of projects,
including training, sustainable design charrettes, qualitative research
design and implementation, and data analysis. SFI also supports
Southface's annual Greenprints conference via a formal alliance
between the two organizations.
- Green Building
Alliance (GBA), Pittsburgh, PA
SFI and GBA have collaborated on the development of lists of built
environment sustainability resources, and several jointly-authored
publications are presently under development.
- Brooks Energy
and Sustainability Laboratory (BESL), Brooks Air Force Base,
TX
As the core organization providing sustainability expertise to the
BESL partnership, SFI participates in BESL projects relating to
redevelopment of closed bases/installations, fence-to-fence audits
of the sustainability of installations, setting agendas for military
sustainability initiatives, and development of performance-based
specifications for new technology development.
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