Urban Utility Center

During the summer of 1997, Polytechnic Institute of NYU made an agreement with major local, national and international utilities to establish the Urban Utility Center to promote public-private partnerships for accelerating the assessment, demonstration and deployment of innovative infrastructure technologies. UUC's primary goal is to promote reliable and cost-effective use of technology in order to address fast growing societal needs for accelerating the rehabilitation of aging infrastructures, improving their performance, and upgrading the quality and safety of the vital public services that they support.

UUC has access to a unique network of public and private strategic partners and expert resources in the US and Europe which has the capacity to 1) coordinate, prioritize and direct R&D efforts across a broad array of interdependent infrastructure industries; 2) identify and evaluate early stage technologies; 3) integrate potential end-users into the development process, including utilities and municipalities; and 4) conduct on site demonstrations in selected sites of the member utilities.

Ilan Juran, Executive Director
6 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
uuc@urban.poly.edu
phone: 718.260.3273
fax: 718.260.3433