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Creating Sustainable

Built Environments

Creating Sustainable Built Environment

Arizona: A Living Laboratory

Through the integration of solutions-based environmental design, planning, and management practices, sustainable built environments are laying the foundation for spaces that enable communities and the natural world to coexist and thrive.

Across fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, real estate development, and heritage conservation, researchers at the University of Arizona work collaboratively with communities to cultivate knowledge and pioneer new strategies for building a sustainable future.

U of A students plant native grasses on Tumamoc Hill

U of A among first to earn Carnegie Elective Classification for Sustainability

The University of Arizona is being recognized for weaving sustainability throughout its teaching, research, operations and community partnerships, becoming one of the first 14 institutions to receive the Carnegie Elective Classification for Sustainability. 


 

Sustainability sign outside Old Main

Discover the sustainability work you may walk past every day

The Campus Sustainability Tour offers a look at the people, projects and places helping make the U of A more sustainable

Monsoon over Tucson at night

Green Infrastructure for Blue Water

University of Arizona researchers are collaborating across discplines and with community partners to integrate sustainable infrastructure into Tucson's water system to ensure its equitable, reliable, and safe distribution.

Interdisciplinary programs creating 
Sustainable Built environments

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Drachman Institute

Equity, Resilience, Connection and Belonging across the Built Environment

The Drachman Institute is the community-based research and outreach arm of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. It is committed to advancing equity, resilience, connection and belonging across the built environment through transformational interdisciplinary research, design and outreach partnerships.
 

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Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources

Advancing responsible mining and use of minerals

The Lowell Institute strives to advance responsible mining and mineral use through education, innovation, workforce development, and integrated solutions application.

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Study Built Environments at the University of Arizona

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