Interview: Rethinking the way we build infrastructure

Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Construction Briefing

26 March 2024

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The way in which societies design and build infrastructure needs to change as the world gets to grips with the challenges that decarbonisation and climate change present.

That’s according to US-based engineering professor Deb Chachra, author of a recently published book called How Infrastructure Works: Transforming Our Shared Systems for a Changing World.

Canadian-born Chachra has been based in the US for the last 20 years and is currently a professor at Olin College of Engineering…

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