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Social Infrastructure (Saitama University Research Seed Collection 2025-27 p.24)
Keywords: Environmental planning, environmental assessment, consensus building, water supply and sewage.
We are engaged in research that aims to improve our everyday lives while continuing to study our immediate environment, infrastructure, and social systems in an interdisciplinary manner. Focusing on reducing environmental impact, we seek to uncover the invisible challenges faced by the environment, infrastructure, and social systems, exploring their causes and searching for solutions. Additionally, we study the design of planning processes for local governments and large-scale projects to aid in consensus building, aiming to contribute to sustainable community development. Currently, we are focusing on water supply and sewage systems, challenging ourselves to identify areas where business efficiency may decline due to population decrease, as well as developing methods for visualizing water flow and estimating future district-specific operational costs. We explore integrated and sustainable measures to address the challenges posed by the decrease in users, the increasing burden of fees, and the need to secure local water environments, which encompass social, economic, and environmental aspects. We will also apply the developed methods to other infrastructures and social systems.
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Katsuyuki Mochiki, Associate Professor Research Institute, Center for Social Change Research [Recent Research Themes] ● Estimation of the sustainability of water supply and sewage systems and examination of countermeasures ● Examination of various facility development methods based on land use planning ● Environmental impact assessment of renewable energy facilities
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【Appeal Points to the Industry】 ● Visualization of processes that impact the environment ● Optimization of environmental impact to a level that does not impose strain on daily life ● Support for environmental impact assessment during the planning stage ● The current main research field is within Saitama Prefecture. 【Examples of Practical Application, Use Cases, and Utilization】 ● Consideration of the integration of water supply and sewage systems, formulation of management strategies ● Development and operation of regional environmental plans and action plans ● Support for environmental considerations during the planning stage of large-scale facilities
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Regional Water Supply Operating Costs Death Penalty (2025, compared to Tokyo Area Average)
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The Saitama University Open Innovation Center is a center that functions as a liaison office for industry-academia-government collaboration. It consists of three departments: the Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Department, the Intellectual Property Department, and the Startup Support Department, each staffed with coordinators well-versed in various fields. The center's activities include solving technical challenges in companies, supporting the implementation of joint research, and conducting technology transfer aimed at introducing and utilizing Saitama University's intellectual property.