March 6, 2006

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Celebrates New Lab Dedicated to Environmental Engineering

The new Environmental Engineering Laboratory facilities will support research programs in water and wastewater treatment, contaminant transport and site remediation, solid waste engineering and molecular microbial ecology.

During the tour, Barlaz explained that the new laboratory space is designed for flexibility, and he demonstrated one of the strategically placed, moveable mini fume hoods. (Photos: Jennifer Weston)

The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University will mark the opening of a new laboratory dedicated to environmental engineering research with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, March 17, at 1:15 p.m. in 2115 Broughton Hall.

The new 5,200 square foot facility will support the department's research programs in water and wastewater treatment, contaminant transport and site remediation, solid waste engineering and molecular microbial ecology. The laboratory has been designed to meet the department's needs with specially designed space to support the wide array of ongoing research. It features rooms dedicated to analytical instrumentation and pilot-scale work, greatly improved ventilation and hoods, large constant temperature rooms and specialized fume hoods to support pilot-scale research.

“Starting research in the new facility has been great,” says Dr. Morton A. Barlaz, director of the laboratory. “It has been designed to address many of the limitations of the old laboratory, and the space is much more efficient.”

The ceremony is being held in conjunction with the 2006 Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. This event will feature a talk by Mr. N.C. Vasuki, chief executive officer of Delaware Solid Waste Authority, at 11:15 a.m. in 216 Mann Hall. His lecture, “Solid Waste Processing and Disposal: Another Frontier in Environmental Management,” will be followed by the ribbon-cutting ceremony and more than 25 poster presentations of graduate student research in various areas of environmental engineering, including water and wastewater treatment, risk analysis, solid waste management, watershed/groundwater management, environmental systems analysis, air pollution and coastal engineering.

Friends of the department are invited to attend the symposium and ceremony. For more information, contact Barlaz at (919) 515-7676 or barlaz@eos.ncsu.edu.

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