RENEW is providing technical assistance and research services to the City of Buffalo in the areas of engineering, advanced computing, geographic information services, planning, law, economics, business, and/or finance in support of the City’s 2015 Energy Plan. RENEW accomplishes this via RENEW Fellows who are Senior Research Support Specialists. The RENEW Fellows spend 80% of their time working at City Hall at the City of Buffalo and 20% interacting with RENEW focus areas and the faculty that comprise them. As part of this project, RENEW will hire two Energy Fellows.
RENEW is also providing technical assistance and research services to the Buffalo Sewer Authority (BSA) in the areas of engineering, advanced computing, geographic information services, planning, law, economics, business, and/or finance in support of the BSA’s LTCP and the BSA’s ongoing energy conservation and development program. RENEW accomplishes this via RENEW Fellows who are Senior Research Support Specialists. The RENEW Fellows spend 80% of their time working at City Hall at the City of Buffalo and 20% interacting with RENEW focus areas and the faculty that comprise them. As part of this project, RENEW will hire three Fellows – a Green Infrastructure Fellow, an Energy Fellow and a GIS and Hydraulic Modeling Fellow.
UB faculty are also directly engaged as part of the BSA project working to develop a detailed stormwater management model (SWMM) to simulate runoff from the City of Buffalo catchment area and the routing of flow through the BSA collection system.
112 Cooke Hall
University at Buffalo, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-5900
Email: renew@buffalo.edu
Participating RENEW Schools and Colleges