上海市城市化生态过程与生态恢复重点实验室组织校级报告，诚邀老师和同学参加并交流讨论。报告人及报告内容简介如下：

讲座题目：Path to Sustainable Infrastructure- Monitor, Maintain and Develop

主讲人：Abhijit Mukherjee（Professor of Civil Engineering, Curtin University）

主持人：Varenyam Achal （Associate Professor）

时间：2014年6月26日（周四）9:30am

地址：闵行校区 生科辅楼119会议室

主办单位：上海市城市化生态过程与生态恢复重点实验室、科技处

报告人简介：

Professor Abhijit Mukherjee is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Curtin University, Australia. His research interests are modern urban sustainability; nature inspired building materials, materials of construction, their degradation and ways of extending the life of structures. Professor Mukherjee has more than 150 publications and his works have been cited more than 1500 times. He has been consultant of more than 200 structural repair and rehabilitation projects. Professor Mukherjee has been the Principal Investigator of several international research projects. He has been awarded for outstanding paper by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a Fellow of both Indian National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences India.

报告简介：

While infrastructure is a basic need for prosperity the present technology for building them is not sustainable. It uses too much energy and emits a large quantity of greenhouse gases. The path to sustainability is not only through making new sustainable structures, but also through proper monitoring and maintenance of existing ones. Recent advances in biotechnology have the potential of emulating nature’s way of building at a scale that would sustain world’s population. On the other hand, developments of communication and sensing technologies promise to offer monitoring of structures at an unprecedented scale.

In this talk, a gist of research carried out by Professor Mukherjee on materials, monitoring and maintenance will be presented. The potential of each of the technologies will be mentioned along with the challenges.