Why sustainability is key when it comes to planning underground urban developments.

Building underground can solve problems for city planners, but CIES expert Dr Asal Bidarmaghz warns that planning is needed to ensure subterranean solutions are sustainable. Dr Bidarmaghz’s own specific research looks into the sustainable and resilient utilisation of underground structures and geo-energy resources. “At the moment, we are warming up the urban subsurface significantly and if you continue doing that then it’s not sustainable – it’s like global warming for the underground,”  Read more..