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INSTRUCTOR: 
Bilal M. Ayyub, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE

Purpose and Background

This product is for the Livestream session for the 2024 ASCE Convention. You will access the Live session on ZoomforGov.

Significant fiscal and intellectual investment in climate-resilient infrastructure is sorely needed for the Nation and indeed the world. To help the Nation achieve these twin goals, promoting the development of climate-resilient codes and standards is of strategic importance. To date, infrastructure codes and standards have not taken into account that our climate is rapidly changing. A formal collaboration between the Nation’s largest provider of climate information, NOAA, and the world’s largest civil engineering professional society, ASCE, is necessary and ongoing. The expressed focus of such a collaboration is on advancing the use of NOAA-produced climate science and understanding within engineering practice for the design and construction of climate-resilient infrastructure. Specifically, the development and updating of ASCE codes, standards, and manuals of practice by a series of exchanges between NOAA and ASCE and focusing on the co-development of problem definition and technology transfer mechanisms.

The ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice (Task Force FT) proposes to a convene a panel discussion to provide updates on the work and plans of the TF focusing on climate-risk reduction in building practices. The NOAA Climate Program Office has forged a partnership with the University of Maryland (UMD) and ASCE to expedite the development of climate-smart engineering codes and standards. This effort should increase the pace of climate adaptation and reduce maintenance costs, as well the costs of climate-related natural disasters.

Learning Outcomes and Session Benefits

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the importance of promoting climate-resilient infrastructure codes and standards in response to rapidly changing climate conditions.
• Describe the collaboration between NOAA and ASCE in advancing climate science integration into civil engineering practices.
• Discuss the role of the ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice in developing climate-risk reduction strategies for building practices.
• Identify the expected benefits of climate-smart engineering codes and standards in accelerating climate adaptation and reducing disaster-related costs.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are assessed and achieved through passing a 10 multiple choice question post-test with at least a 70%

Who Should Attend?

• Sustainability professionals
• Environmental engineers
• Consulting engineers
• Public Agency Engineers

How to Earn Your PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

This course is worth 1 PDH. To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to attend the live session and/or watch the recording(s) and complete the post-session survey. If the course is taken On-Demand, there will also be a 10 multiple choice question post-test.

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