Innovation and Implementation

Innovation and Implementation Priorities

The escalating Earth crisis is triggering an unprecedented humanitarian and global health emergency, necessitating rapid and profound transformations across investment systems, energy systems, food production, manufacturing processes, and urban infrastructure. These changes are vital to safeguard and restore the natural systems that sustain human life and allow for stable, thriving societies. Policy reforms in the built environment and the asset management industry are crucial to change the way economic outcomes are measured. Equally imperative are cutting-edge technological solutions and their real-world implementation to meet the new demands in support of creating a livable future.

Johns Hopkins University, with its extensive network of expertise spanning investments, the built environment, engineering, technology, and data science, is uniquely positioned to drive this innovation and will start on this endeavor by working on the following priorities.

Activities

The Open Sustainability Summit

JHIPH was a co-sponsor of this summit led by Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in partnership with LF Energy on May 2-3, 2024. This event gathered lawmakers, policymakers, electrical utility companies, automakers, technology vendors, researchers, and end users of energy to discuss the challenges and opportunities for an open-source model of building both technology and standards to drive the energy transition, with particular focus on how policy and regulation can support this collaborative approach and ensure communities are diverse and inclusive.  

Faculty Directors

Jaafar El-Awady

Seydina Fall