Built Environment Exacerbating COVID-19 Pandemic, Researchers Argue
Pandemic challenges highlight needed shift in engineering research As communities across the United States struggle to manage a wave of COVID-19 infections, a multidisciplinary team of researchers argue that the pandemic has revealed the ways in which engineered structures and services have contributed to society’s challenges. They subsequently insist that the built environment – including both engineered structures and services – cannot be ignored when developing long-term pandemic mitigation. In an article recently published in The Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, a team led...
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