Bernalillo County officials announced a water conservation project in collaboration with The University of New Mexico that breaks ground on campus next month.
UNM’s Physical Plant Department (PPD) will install an underground, 4,700 foot pipeline from...
By Michael Buchanan, EH&S Tech III, Safety & Risk ServicesDecember 04, 2015
The Department of Safety & Risk Services oversees the UNM Watershed Basin permit and works to keep UNM’s storm water runoff as clean and pollution-free as possible. Storm water runoff occurs when precipitation from rain or snowmelt flows over the ground;...
Two faculty members from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering will lead research activities for a new National Science Foundation Grant. Assistant Professor Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon and Associate Professor Andrew Schuler, both in the UNM ...
The University of New Mexico, the City of Albuquerque, and RWL Water were the hosts of the first Southwest Water & Energy Summit on April 22. Presenters and attendees examined the challenges, solutions, and opportunities surrounding water issues.
Marc Powell, owner of Albuquerque-based transportation company ReCARnation, is donating the use of two vehicles benefiting two initiatives in the UNM School of Engineering: the Lobo MotorSports Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) team, and outreach and research efforts led by the Center for Water and the Environment.
It is often said that UNM is a “city within a city.” The New Mexico Environment Department agrees, and has designated UNM as a “large water system” due to over 40,000 people using UNM’s water consistently. Because UNM is a “large water system,” it is...
The University of New Mexico, like much of the metro area, is still cleaning up and assessing water damage from the storm this past weekend. UNM Physical Plant Department is in the early stages of evaluating the more than 30 buildings...
In the three short years since the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute (iD+Pi) was established at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, the institute’s faculty, staff and students have completed two major projects – one ...
More than 2.5 inches of rain fell in two hours in the vicinity of the UNM campus Friday night and early Saturday morning causing a vareity of problems as water overwhelmed the drainage systems, backed up in low-lying areas and entered under doors, flow
The Center for Water and the Environment, a research center based at the University of New Mexico, has received a 5-year, $5 million Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) award from the National Science Foundation.