Urban Sustainability Podcast

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The Sikand SITI-Center focuses on urban sustainability and its components include transportation infrastructure, water resources and hydrology, urban structures and earthquake resiliency, environment, geotechnics, smart mobility, and connected vehicles, energy and vehicle electrification, construction management, and advances in technology related to sustainability such as artificial intelligence and data science. In particular, we focus on issues of interest to urban Southern California.

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Urban Sustainability Water Challenges & Opportunities for 21st Century Resilience

Caryn has advised researchers, philanthropy, investors, and government agencies on watershed restoration and water resiliency strategies for 15 years. Most recently, she directed the Water Program at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which was dedicated to supporting 21st Century water management policies that protect source waters, green infrastructure, and advances to the human right to clean, affordable, drinking water. She worked closely with advocates to implement California’s first-ever gr...

May 18, 2020•56 min

The Role of Public Transportation in Urban Sustainability

Mr. Berwynson R. Salazar has more than 15 years of extensive project management experience on environmental compliance, capital projects construction support, site investigation/remediation, hazardous materials/waste management, climate adaptation, sustainability, and resiliency. He is a certified sustainability manager (CSM), Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP), a Green Building Professional (GPRO) Certified Trainer, LEED Green Associate, and has completed several specialized training...

May 18, 2020•58 min

Imagine a Living Future

Avideh is a Registered Architect and a Living Future Accredited professional dedicated to creating a regenerative built environment through her role as a designer and A/E/C industry advocate. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from Woodbury University in 2011 and since then has been driven to transform the built environment towards a net-positive impact. She has a diverse portfolio of work spanning public and private sectors, including public schools, mixed use residential and institution...

May 18, 2020•59 min

Human Infrastructure: Building a Culture of Mobility Justice in Los Angeles

People carry many cultural and social factors with them as they travel, which makes the project of transitioning to sustainable transportation cultural as well as physical. Dr. Lugo will share examples from her work on "human infrastructure" with advocates for mobility justice in Los Angeles and around the United States.

May 18, 2020•35 min

Invisible Buildings: buildings harm our health and the environment but they don’t have to

Sara Neff is Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Kilroy Realty Corporation. Sara took Kilroy from having no sustainability program to being named the #1 publicly traded real estate company on sustainability in North America by GRESB, and under her leadership, the company recently committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral real estate company in North America by the end of 2020.

May 18, 2020•39 min

LA County’s OurCounty Sustainability Plan

Rebecca works with County departments, community organizations, local jurisdictions, and other stakeholders to help implement the OurCounty regional sustainability plan. Before joining LA County, Rebecca worked as a green building consultant in Los Angeles and as Scheduler to the Chair at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in Washington, DC. Rebecca holds Master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Public Health from UCLA.

May 18, 2020•38 min

Sustainable Concrete Using Supplementary Cementitious Materials & Slag Cement

Qiang Li is an infrastructure solution engineer at Cemex, where Qiang provides technical support to contractors, engineering firms, and government agencies on pavement solutions and concrete materials. Qiang received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in several states and has more than 10 years of experience in Pavement Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Materials, and Instrumentation.

May 18, 2020•35 min

Transport LA: Looking at the Past, Planning for the Future

Gary Lai is an accomplished landscape architect and thought leader in sustainability, resiliency and conservation. Gary leverages three decades of design and planning experience to steer large, complex projects to successful completion. His interest in drawing and environmentalism led him to a field that he describes as the â€˜architecture of living thingsâ€™ with an immense potential to impact quality of life for future generations.

May 18, 2020•51 min

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