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On average, at least one water main break happens every day across the five boroughs.

Bringing together utility companies, city agencies and experts, the Unification for Underground Resilience Measures project is using previously siloed data sets to build a road map to help prepare for natural disasters.

Newswise — BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, February 23, 2021 — Debra Laefer, Professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Rae Zimmerman, Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration at NYU Wagner, are awardees of the Civic Innovation Challenge, a national competition to drive research and collaborative action in urban resiliency and smart and connected communities. Their project, Unification for Underground Resilience Measur...

NSF providing critical support in COVID-19 fight With the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is facing one of the greatest challenges of its history. Addressing the wide-ranging impact of the pandemic requires the combined efforts of researchers across numerous scientific disciplines. As the only U.S. federal agency that supports fundamental research across all fields of science and engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation has been an integral part of the response. The foundation has...