"Engineering: What engineering innovations will help us prepare our buildings, bridges, roads and other infrastructure for the future, so that they can adapt to a changing planet?"

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The FIU PerFORM[D]ance House is a truly sustainable Florida house. Powered entirely by the sun, the house performs in real time by sensing and responding to the external conditions of its environment and the internal conditions of its use. Its architecture, its landscape strategy, its interior building materials and its energy, environmental, and interactive automation systems are designed specifically to allow the house to adapt to our hot, humid, and sometimes stormy subtropical climate.

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