About the author  ⁄ Lawrence C. Bank, Ph.D., P.E.

Lawrence C. Bank, Ph.D., P.E. (lbank2@ccny.cuny.edu), is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York. This article is based on the 2014 Landis Lecture in Structural Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Within the broad field of civil engineering, structural engineers have perhaps been among the slowest to embrace and adopt the concepts of sustainability in the built environment. Many sit by with mounting frustration as architects, other types of engineers, and urban planners have defined “green” agendas for their disciplines, and successfully embraced and marketed them.

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