SustainableScience.org Inc.

Contact info:

UK office: 5 Dee Rd, Talacre, CH8 9RS, UK.

E-mail: info@sustainablescience.org

Phones: +1 319 930 3477, +44 1745 855 181

Skype: sustsci

This site first appeared on-line on January 22, 1997. Last update: September 01, 2010

Sustainable Science and Engineering (SS&E) is an intellectual framework for all knowledge-based systems that abide by a requisite of sustainability, conservation and optimum recycling of natural resources. Our LPSA (light prestressed segmented arch) structural technology not only demonstrates this requisite but also defines a gainful plan of action for sustainable development out of halting global deforestation.

An engineering technology to halt global deforestation gainfully is presented here. It is based on the structural use of natural small diameter timber (SDT) in construction instead of the non-sustainable mature timber which motivates deforestation. The technology offers a solid basis for sustainable socio-economic development, worldwide . It also leads to low-cost, high quality, earthquake-, hurricane– and flood-durable designs for buildings, and bridges. Of special and immediate importance are structures for regions exposed to flooding due to global warming. This is the gist of this institute’s Project Proposal, entitled: Sustainable Engineering: connecting science, society and sustainability. The Proposal is published on the European portal of Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), seeking consortium partners and EU funding. Click here to access the Proposal.

Last January, this site completed its 13th year of online existence. We are pleased to see that the subject matter of this institute’s technologies and mission: connecting science, society and sustainability, has now become very “fashionable” worldwide, judging by the number of university, industry and governmental entities and programs with names that include the root “sustain”. Judging by the state-of-the-art as detailed on this site, our technologies are a generation ahead of others’. Sadly, the big hurdle seems to be ignorance and the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. However, we trust that the urgent need for both halting global deforestation and robust, affordable, “green” shelter / bridges will eventually make our technologies unavoidable, NIH or not!