What is Georgia Techs role in the rebuilding of New Orleans?
We’re at the stage right now in the discussion where there are real questions whether we should rebuild or what we should rebuild. Clearly the city will be forever changed. We were brought in initially — President Clough, myself and others — to engage in a discussion from the civil engineering perspective. What we realized is this is a problem that goes far beyond infrastructure. How will you proceed? A proposal has been funded from the United Engineering Foundation for Georgia Tech and our partner universities — Tulane, the University of New Orleans and LSU — and in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers to have a forum on the subject of rebuilding New Orleans. Tech led the proposal submission, and we received almost $60,000 from the foundation. Our goal is to look forward and not to look to the past and really explore what it would mean to protect New Orleans and the region. Will the forum address issues outside engineering? The human component of this is extremely
