Why Less Steel and Concrete Isn't the Same as More Sustainable
September 15, 2026
Fernanda Cruz Rios, PhD, an assistant professor in the Nick Howley College of Engineering and Computing’s School of Engineering, was quoted in a Sept. 15 Anthropocene magazine article about a new data arguing that a building's real environmental cost should be measured by how well it survives disaster, not by how little it weighs.
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