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Sponsored by ASCE Continuing Education and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI).
INSTRUCTOR: William L. Coulbourne, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE
Purpose and Background
This webinar discusses ways that climate change, especially sea level rise, can and should be included in flood designs. There are currently no prescribed methods for how to consider future conditions in flood design. This webinar uses ASCE 7 Flood Loads and ASCE 24 Flood Resistant Design and Construction Standard as the design basis in which to include future conditions. It discusses flood depths, future wave conditions, and long-term erosion in the context of increasing flood loads for these future conditions. It also discusses the issue of uncertainty in the magnitude of these future loads so the practitioner has a methodology that can consider these uncertainties.
Primary Discussion Topics
- Using climate change information to develop flood design basis
- How to use current flood design equations for changing conditions
- Discuss the uncertainty in future flood design
- Examples will be used to illustrate possible future flood load results
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to use climate change studies in developing a future flood design basis
- Recognize the flood design provisions in both ASCE 7 and ASCE 24
- Become acquainted with the levels of uncertainty in flood design and the required structural reliability to resist flood loads
- Become familiar with orders of magnitude of possible flood load conditions
Webinar Benefits
- Learn how to address this important and often discussed topic of climate change as it relates to floods
- Improve future building performance by considering this ever-changing dynamic climate
- Reduce losses from future floods
- Improve community resiliency when impacted by floods
- Become more familiar with both ASCE 7 and ASCE 24
- Become more of a flood design expert for your clients
- Earn valuable CEUs
Intended Audience
- Structural engineers
- Civil engineers
- Hydrologists and hydraulic engineers
- Floodplain managers
Webinar Outline
- Review how many climate change studies are conducted and how they might affect future designs
- Review ASCE’s statements on climate change and how they might impact your practice
- Current application of flood information to develop flood loads
- How to consider future conditions in flood design
- Examples of how to create future flood designs considering climate change