Center for the Advancement of Sustainability Innovations (CASI): A Summary of the Center's First Year's Activities; Final rept

摘要

The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) established the Center for the Advancement of Sustainability Innovations (CASI) as a new capability in fall 2006 to be hosted at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, IL. The goal of CASI is to focus the value of ERDC expertise, technologies, and partnerships on helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Army, and the Department of Defense (DoD) achieve more sustainable facilities and operations. Sustainability innovations from CASI and its partners are measured against the Army Strategy for the Environment's 'triple bottom line,' of mission, community, and environment. CASI has organized technology focus areas involving domains for which to provide capabilities and expertise relevant to sustainability requirements. In 2007, CASI focused on building relationships and attempting to identify those critical projects that will help shape future Army and USACE activities. This report describes some of these collaborations and details plans for 2008.