River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC) is the first research centre at the USM Engineering Campus which was established on May 31, 2001. REDAC has been active in research and consultancy projects in urban drainage and river management since 1997. Among the project sponsors are Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI),

Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE), Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry (MOA), Department of Irrigation and Drainage (JPS), Prime Minister’s Economic Planning Unit (EPU), Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP) and Public Works Department (JKR).
A sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) known as Bio-Ecological Drainage Systems (BIOECODS) was designed by REDAC and subsequently constructed at the USM Engineering Campus, Penang in 2002. BIOECODS attempts to solve three major problems commonly encountered in Malaysia namely flash floods, river pollution and water scarcity. ....<More>