Green Engineering: Designing Sustainable Infrastructure for Smart Cities

Abstract

The rapid 21 st century urbanization has increased demands to have smart cities, which are environmentally conscious and technologically oriented. The concept of green engineering provides a theoretical framework to come up with sustainable infrastructure that will result in minimal harm to the environment and will facilitate effectiveness, permanence and quality of life. According to the energy efficiency, sustainable materials, water management, waste minimization and low-carbon transportation systems, the ideas and practices of green engineering in the smart city development in this paper are implemented. The present paper concentrates on resource utilization and environmental footprints reduction of opportunities by identifying the current practices, case study and innovations that fall under the green design method including green building requirements, the incorporation of green energy, and green city planning. In addition, the paper summarizes the interaction between digital technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT) and big data analytics and artificial intelligence and sustainable engineering practice to be able to monitor, predictively maintain, and adaptively manage urban systems. Such problems as financial stability, loopholes in policies and technological limitations are discussed, and possible solutions which involve a combination of regulatory frameworks, public- private associations and active involvement of the community. The findings reveal the significance of multidisciplinary collaboration among the engineers, urban planners, policymakers and the citizens in the achievement of sustainable urban development. With the environment in mind, the development and design of intelligent infrastructure enables cities to be resilient over time, socially healthy, and environmentally friendly. The work belongs to the growing body of literature on sustainable urban development as well as provides realistic information to those practitioners and policymakers who seek to implement solutions to green engineering, which are consistent with the objectives of smart cities.