School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

An art deco dam situated in bedrock and holding back Lake Mead.

Environment and sustainability

ASU-led study sharpens Colorado River forecasts as Arizona faces deepening water cuts

Graphic illustration of microbes in the human gut.

Science and technology

You are what you eat — or are you?

May 27, 2026

Two people walk through a burned desert with a mountain looming in the distance

Environment and sustainability

Fighting fire damage with fungus

May 14, 2026

Palo Verde Blooms

Sun Devil community

Construction grad pursues law degree at ASU

May 11, 2026

Palo Verde Blooms

Sun Devil community

Civil engineering grad's fascination with highways led to ASU

May 11, 2026

Asphalt on McAllister Avenue

Environment and sustainability

Asphalt is everywhere, but is it bad for our health?

April 21, 2026

Portrait of Kristen Parrish who has been name ASU's Willmeng Professor

Willmeng Professorship at ASU expands construction research, workforce development

April 14, 2026

A man pilots an aircraft over a forested area.

Environment and sustainability

ASU-SRP snow surveys show much of Arizona’s headwater snowpack melted in weeks

March 25, 2026

Looking down at groups of tables set out for an event in a courtyard

Environment and sustainability

Solving the West’s water problems will require tapping into multiple resource streams

March 24, 2026

phosphate fertilizer in gloved hands

Environment and sustainability

Phosphate powers life as we know it; yet most of us flush it down the drain

February 17, 2026

ASU alumnus Jim Geisbush, fourth from left, and Samuel Ariaratnam, the Sunstate Chair of Construction Management and Engineering, second from right, stand with the team from Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China, and the Huayuan Group in March 2024. Geisbush, who earned his civil engineering doctorate from the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, was mentored by Ariaratnam during an international research

ASU program creates new pathways for civil engineering careers

February 13, 2026