Cities are the greatest human intervention in the physical environment. A unique environment that houses almost 80% of the world’s population. They bring opportunities, prosperity, and well-being to many inhabitants. But they also generate significant economic and socio-environmental imbalances that need to be understood and managed. They can impact both the financial and social aspects of public policy and private business.
Shared knowledge | Today, it is essential for public and private managers to have technical knowledge about environmental and urban infrastructure issues. They must equip themselves to understand problems and address them quickly and at the lowest possible cost. This is the main objective of the field. To achieve it, it offers technological solutions and R&D&I based on sustainability concepts that broadly involve cities, infrastructure, and urban and rural surroundings.
Competencies | This unit has a specialized and multidisciplinary team that works integratively in the conception, modeling of proposals, validation of methods, development, and application of technological solutions with integrity, impartiality, and technical quality in serving both the public and private sectors.
Client access to solutions is facilitated by three technical sections involved in territorial planning, environmental assessment, water resources, sanitation, urban and rural forests; geotechnics and engineering of structures applied to large civil works; and geophysical and environmental investigations, management and management of natural, technological/industrial risks, environmental management, and management of contaminated areas.
QUICK FACTS
- PUBLIC POLICY
- SUPPORT SPECIALIZED AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM
- TECHNICAL AGENT OF FEHIDRO
- TECHNICAL/TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS
- NATIONAL REFERENCE IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO DISASTERS
