Sustainble, wheelchair friendly garden to be built at Buffalo Center

Published April 23, 2018 This content is archived.

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An article on Buffalo Rising reports four UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences seniors, Amelia Veitch, Austin Reese, Andrea Oaks, and Austin Izzo, have secured a grant from Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) to build a sustainable, wheelchair-friendly garden at the Buffalo Center (Rehabilitation & Nursing).

The project will allow residents in wheelchairs to venture outdoors, to explore and interact with the accessible garden features.

Veitch, Oaks and Izzo are from the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, and Reese is from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

Read the story here.