Collaborative Research: Research Initiation: Understanding Competencies and Professional Identities for Digitally-Enabled Sustainable Demolition Construction Practices

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Abstract

Technologically advanced and sustainable deconstruction is crucial for meeting the nation’s growing demand for demolition services and a skilled workforce to mitigate the impact of extreme weather events, including wildfires, floods, and hurricanes, which can pose safety and time barriers that prevent deconstruction professionals from engaging in efficient and sustainable demolition practices. This need is also combined with the urgent imperative to renew the aging urban infrastructure, ensuring resilient, resource-efficient rebuilding that minimizes environmental impact and maximizes community safety. To address this need, this project aims to serve the national interest in several ways: (1) advance the knowledge and innovation in transforming demolition practices toward more technologically advanced and sustainable ones to mitigate the impact of natural hazards, reduce safety risks, minimize material disposal costs, alleviate supply chain disruptions, and minimize demolition environmental impact; (2) collaborate with professionals in the sustainable demolition construction practice to understand their role-specific competencies and how they perceive being part of an innovative profession focusing on environmental impact and efficiency and adding value to the general engineering profession, and (3) support the development of skilled deconstruction engineers fluent in digital literacy and able to implement technologies for construction and demolition waste management, and con

Key facts

NSF award ID
2508835
Awardee
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TX)
SAM.gov UEI
QD1MX6N5YTN4
PI
Homero Murzi
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
ENGINEERING EDUCATION, EDUCATION RESEARCH
Estimated total
$24,749
Funds obligated
$24,749
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
09/15/2025 → 08/31/2027