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Hastak to Study Residential Wastewater Treatment
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Dr. Mark Hastack | Mark Hastak of Purdue University will join the NAHB Research Center as a scholar-in-residence this summer to evaluate and compare centralized and decentralized approaches for residential wastewater treatment. His research will help create a decision-making tool for communities addressing residential land development and wastewater treatment issues.
Hastak’s project will help determine:
- The critical quantitative and qualitative factors affecting the overall lifecycle performance of wastewater treatment systems
- How the critical factors identified relate to the overall lifecycle performance of the wastewater treatment system
- How an optimal decision strategy for wastewater treatment can be developed, given a specific land development project with identified factors
The research center’s Scholar in Residence Program is part of the center’s National Center for Residential Land Development Technology, which develops and coordinates a long-term research agenda to support advances in land development technologies. The program is funded by the National Housing Endowment, the philanthropic arm of NAHB.
Hastak is an associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering and a research director at the Purdue Housing Research Center.
His research interests include decision support systems and construction process improvement, risk assessment and strategic planning infrastructure management, international construction project cost control, construction operations analysis and simulation life cycle assessment of composite materials in construction.
The Scholars in Residence program was created to strengthen the ties between academic research and the practical day-to-day operations of the residential construction industry.
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