Each year, students in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture apply their talents toward real world solutions. In 2012, that included concepts for a Galveston levee system. Such as a system has been proposed to Galveston officials and while no decision has been made, UH students in the Advanced Design Studio class used it as an opportunity to design functional levees.
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