The role of the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering, directed by Mikhail Chester, a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, is to help provide a basis for understanding, designing and managing the complex integrated built, human and natural systems shaping the planet in modern times. Chester’s recent book, co-written with Braden Allenby, a Fulton Schools Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Engineering, looks at how to best take on complex challenges of creating new infrastructure to strengthen the resilience of today’s built environment to ensure robust and sustainable energy, transportation and environmental management systems into the future.