Sustainable Infrastructure Hub

About the Sustainable Infrastructure Hub:

 The Sustainable Infrastructure Hub focuses its attention on the sustainability themes of buildings, energy, water, and waste.  Please click on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) icons below to see sections of the 2021 Draft Sustainability & Climate Action Plan in the Infrastructure Hub categories.

The Sustainability Project Laboratory

All Hubs of the Office of Sustainability contribute to the Sustainability Project Laboratory. The Sustainability Project Laboratory is a database of sustainability-related project proposals. This resource hosts projects and project ideas that can be adopted by faculty, staff, and students for course projects, capstone or senior projects, theses, and more.

Propose a sustainability project that will result in a simultaneous benefit to people, the planet, and prosperity (for faculty, staff, or community members)

Request a sustainability project for an Ohio University course or for research (for faculty or students)

The History of the Sustainable Infrastructure Hub

The Sustainable Infrastructure Hub was first led by Dr. David J. Bayless, Loehr Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the Russ College of Engineering and Technology in 2019 and 2020.  Dr. Bayless was at OHIO from 1995 to 2020 and held numerous university leadership positions, including Director of the Robe Leadership Institute, Director of the Ohio Coal Research Center and Fellow at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Service. For the State of Ohio, Bayless served as Director of the Center for Algal Research and Commercialization at Ohio University as designated by the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program. Dr. Bayless is now the Department Chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T University.

As Sustainable Infrastructure Hub Coordinator, Bayless implemented the Sustainability Project Laboratory (SPL), a database to match faculty, staff, and community-led sustainability projects needing student assistance with faculty or students looking for real-world local problems to solve.  He also launched the Triple Bottom Line Cost-Benefit Analysis (TBL-CBA) working group, a group of students, faculty, and staff who meet weekly to create a cost-benefit analysis tool to evaluate projects in the SPL.

Jesús Pagán was the Infrastructure Hub Coordinator after Dr. Bayless. Pagán worked for Ohio University as an associate professor for the Russ College of Engineering and Technology under the department of Engineering Technology and Management. At Ohio University, he worked for the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment, the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization, and the Innovation Center as a field engineer for the NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). He is currently pursuing his doctorate in mechanical engineering.