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Dr. Adjo Amekudzi, associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected to serve on the Leadership Committee of the American Public Works Association (APWA) Center for Sustainability. Formed in 2008, the Center for Sustainability addresses sustainability challenges of public works organizations across the United States and Canada. It serves to conduct and intensify the capacity for essential research, innovation, and technology transfer leading to economically sound, socially desirable, and environmentally healthy projects, programs, and services managed by the public works profession.

"It is great to see the steps that APWA is taking to advance public works to become a more sustainable enterprise," states Dr. Amekudzi. "I am excited to be part of this process and a member of a team that is very forward-looking in their thinking and vision, as well as practical and enterprising in their approaches."

A team of 12 APWA members makes up the Leadership Committee and advises the Center for Sustainability on how to achieve its four core strategies, explains Julia Anastasio, APWA's director for sustainability. These include building a structure within the association to motivate public works practitioners to act more sustainably and provide an integrated vision for adopting sustainable practices across all aspects of public works, e.g., water, transportation, facilities and grounds, waste management, storm water, etc. "A very important message from our leadership group is that we pay particular attention to communicating that sustainability is very broad, and doesn't just focus on the green side of the equation," adds Anastasio. "Sustainability also includes financial stability, good succession planning and working within the social context of communities." APWA is holding its 2nd Annual Sustainability in Public Works Conference on June 8 to 10, 2010 in Minneapolis. Details are available at http://sites.apwa.net/sustainability/2010/home.aspx.