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The Earthquake-Proof Building That Is Built to Collapse
The Brilliant Idea: A replaceable, building-wide system to help hospitals, apartment buildings and office towers survive severe seismic...
Aug 29, 20191 min read


Aug 29, 20191 min read
Stormwater Innovation
smartPOND takes passive stormwater controls and gives them brains, allowing for either pre-programmed stormwater pond management that...
Aug 15, 20191 min read


Toxic Accidents Waiting to Happen Threaten Waterways
It's like watching a bad horror movie: You know something awful is about to happen, and the only questions are when, where and how bad it...
May 31, 20191 min read
Polluters Profiting After Being Penalized
My name is Luke Metzger and I am the Executive Director of Environment Texas, and I am here in support of HB3035. The problem we hope to...
May 31, 20191 min read


Green Infrastructure Performance Liability for Contractors and Designers
A major hurdle for a stormwater designer is ensuring the performance of the system after it’s been constructed. It doesn’t matter how...
May 31, 20191 min read


Hunter’s Field - Solving Street Flooding and Pollutants
The Summer of 2018 marks the completion of Seventh Ward’s Playground and Field House, Hunter’s Field. The $1.8 million investment will...
May 31, 20191 min read


Detention Ponds: Do they really need to be maintained?
Detention ponds have become one of the most common solutions for stormwater management. They do a great job of slowing runoff, containing...
May 31, 20191 min read


Construction Exit and Entrance Stabilization
The FODS Trackout Control Mat was created as a simple solution to a common problem - construction companies were spending valuable time...
May 7, 20191 min read


Volunteers ‘Adopt-a-Drain’ to improve urban Storm Water management
According to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 1 in 4 Americans donate their time each year as volunteers. A...
May 7, 20191 min read


Green and gray infrastructure work together to enhance service, cut costs
According to Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next-Generation Infrastructure, a 140-page report released on March 21, supplementing...
May 7, 20191 min read


Green Infrastructure Solutions for Municipal Challenges for Managing Stormwater
Communities can use green infrastructure principles as a holistic and adaptive method to meet their environmental and community goals now...
May 7, 20191 min read
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