The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the environmental research and development program for the Department of Defense. In keeping with the Department of Defense’s interests in maintaining military readiness for national defense, SERDP is committed to creating sustainable military communities. Increasing urban growth in the vicinity of military installations is negatively affecting the military’s ability to fulfill its current and future missions. The Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and the University of Illinois were awarded funding by SERDP in 2001 to use the LEAM model to quantify the current and future impacts of urbanization on the operation and sustainability of military installations. The first three years of the project focused on development of both the land use model and the training opportunities models. In this final year of the SERDP project, the LEAM and military impact models are being applied to some installation regions to illustrate how this tool can be useful for understanding the potential affects of future urbanization on military installations.

Downloadable Reports

SAFB
• Charrette report [1MB] November 2005
• Charrette Results report [1.3MB] December 2005
• LEAM Simulation Results report [2.2MB] January 2006

Fort Benning
• Bleam report [992KB] November 2005
• Bleam Results 1 report [1.1MB] December 2005
• Bleam Results 2 report [1.1MB] March 2006