23 April 2015, 4pm

The talk will take place at WZW, Freising,
Institut für Landespflege, Emil-Ramann-Str.6,
Room O20 

Everybody is welcome!

Cities across the United States are beginning to direct significant investment towards implementation of green infrastructure (GI), commonly articulated in the US as a distributed approach to reducing urban runoff and the problems it causes. Because GI programs are typically structured as adaptive management, the performance of early projects is used to improve successive designs. Performance monitoring can also help to adjust GI siting and design strategies so that these projects can simultaneously adjust to other challenges faced by contemporary cities (e.g. climate change, urban revitalization, social justice, etc). In this presentation, Dr. Franco Montalto, P.E. will present some of the interdisciplinary research his group at Drexel University has been performing on GI systems in the northeastern US.

Dr. Franvo Montalto is a licensed civil engineer with an interest in the development of ecologically, economically, and socially sensible solutions to urban environmental problems, with a focus on sustainable water resources engineering. His approximately 20 years of experience have included a variety of eco-hydrologic research, planning, and design projects, involving the restoration of wetlands and the use of constructed wetlands for wastewater and stormwater treatment, as well as work with “green infrastructure” and “low impact development” technologies. He joined Drexel in September 2007 after working previously at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Founder and President of eDesign Dynamics LLC, an innovative design firm based in New York City. Dr. Montalto is currently on sabbatical at the IUAV University (Venice, Italy).