The area of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, with a clear vocation of its multidisciplinary team, is oriented towards the understanding and improvement -with a systemic, integrating and sustainable vision- of the urban water cycle and the territory. Thus, the main lines of research in the area are: Sanitation and drainage systems, Wastewater treatment, Analysis of pressures and impacts on aquatic systems and Sustainable water management.
The objective of modern sanitary and environmental engineering is the resolution of conflicts in a risk scenario, as well as the minimisation of pressures and impacts on the environment (especially in aquatic systems), all under the paradigm of sustainable development, which integrates social, economic and environmental aspects. This is where sanitary and environmental engineering are integrated, participating in new concepts such as: integrated environmental management, eco-efficiency and sustainability. This is a new approach that changes from analysis and research of the parts (fragmentary) to multidisciplinary research referring to the globality where techno-scientific issues are expanded (physical, biological, social, cultural, economic), from an integral and sustainable perspective.
R+D+I projects in the area of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering are approached, regardless of the scale of intervention, always with a broad vision in terms of the methodological approach. The research methodologies and procedures followed bear in mind that the different tools (pilot plants, laboratory tests, numerical modelling, field work…) are not ends in themselves, but are subordinated to the final objective: the knowledge and understanding of environmental phenomena, with the aim of providing real solutions to the problems posed. This approach – as is well known – makes it possible to give the work undertaken a pragmatic character in terms of the final usefulness of the results obtained.
People
Permanent Staff
J.M. Alvárez-Campana G.
J. Alfredo Jácome Burgos
Joaquín Suárez López
Postgraduates and
Researchers
Olalla Cristina Alonso López
Angélica Vanessa Goya Heredia
Vicente Jiménez Fernández
Raquel Viturro García