Wednesday May 30

Good Afternoon Norwich community,

Another hot day in Berlin started with some classroom time at citylab. We started with a discussion on some of our readings about Engineering issues/challenges and the growing urban areas. Currently more and more people are moving towards large cities creating a demand for site planning and engineered systems. As I had mentioned yesterday we had to pick a material from the museum we were interested in for research. Today we used a program called CES Edupack to analyze those materials. Using the data base and setting the variables we could see the carbon footprint of the material through every step including, harvesting the material, fabrication, transportation, use and waste. It gave us in insight on what processes create the most emmisions and what happens when it enters the landfill.

Example graph from Edupack

In the afternoon we visited the Berlin Wall Museum and East Side Gallery. With a tour of the museum we got an insight into what life was like along the wall and the series of events that took place. Afterward we went outside and walked along the remaining part of the wall. Since the 90s this section has been used for art displays with street art painted by many different artists. The wall allowed us to get an idea of what it was like but we still cant imagine what it would have been like during that time.

Vincent Polhemus
Class of 2020
Civil Engineering