Boston Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines Webinar

Boston Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines Webinar

Thursday January 7, 2021 
Zoom Webinar
12:00 PM -1:00 PM Panel Discussion and Q&A

Jeff Geisinger, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP, Director of Sustainable Design- Utile
Chris Busch, AICP, Assistant Deputy Director for Climate Change & Environmental Planning- Boston Planning and Development Agency
Nasser Brahim , Senior Climate Resiliency Specialist- Woods Hole Group, Inc.

According to the 2016 Climate Ready Boston report, 12,100 buildings, or over 10% of Boston’s total building stock, will be exposed to flooding by the year 2070. The Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines builds on recommendations made in the Climate Ready Boston initiative, creating a best practice resource for flood resilient building adaptation and new construction. The Guidelines include a range of coastal flood resilience strategies along with clearly illustrated case studies for common building types in the floodplain. Designed to work with ongoing City resilience initiatives, the Guidelines will be used to administer a future Coastal Flood Resilience Zoning Overlay District, currently under review by the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA). 
This lunch time webinar will include a discussion about the costal flood resilience design guidelines followed by a Q&A session. Please bring your questions and comments for our speakers. We are pleased to have preeminent sustainability and climate resiliency leaders present to the BSCES event.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday January 5, 2021
Registration Fees:
$45 Member, $40 BSCES Public Sector Member, $15 BSCES Student and Senior (65+), $45 Public Sector Non-Member, $55 Non-Members

Information/Registration: 
Register to attend this meeting and pay by credit card online above. To register online for an event at the BSCES member rate you must login using your BSCES assigned username and password. If you do not know your BSCES member login information call 617/227-5551. You can also register for this event by mail or email. To do so, download and complete a BSCES Event Registration Form and follow the submission instructions. Cancellations received after January 5, 2021 and no-shows will be billed.