Flood Resistant Design: Building for Current and Future Conditions
Flood Resistant Design: Building for Current and Future Conditions
Sponsored by the Environmental & Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter
Friday, January 10, 2025
Zoom Webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00PM
Speakers:
Matt Gilbertson, PE, SE, Senior Technical Manager, SGH
Tim B. Adams, PE, Water Resources Engineer, CDM Smith
Flooding is one of the nation’s most costly natural hazards, but—despite the risks—construction continues to increase in flood-prone areas. Mr. Gilbertson will discuss how careful planning and design can help reduce the risk of flood damage and minimize the business interruption caused by flood events. Mr. Gilbertson will also help attendees understand flood hazards and share options for improving building resistance to flood damage to enhance community resilience. Finally, Mr. Gilbertson will summarize the various types of flood hazards, discuss strategies for designing flood damage-resistant buildings, and explore various approaches to flood mitigation.
Building off Mr. Gilbertson’s overview, Mr. Adams will cover a practical approach for assessing how climate change affects stormwater and flood management that was recently incorporated into FEMA's benefit cost analysis toolkit. This method uses global climate model (GCM) data to estimate future storm intensification, focusing on how runoff and river discharge rates may change. This method allows engineers to make screening-level estimates of climate change impacts to future flood elevations without the need for detailed hydrologic and hydraulic modeling. Mr. Adams will also explore how this approach was applied to the U.S. and discuss projected increases in flood intensity across different regions by 2060 and 2090.
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, January 7, 2025
$45 Members, $55 Non-Members, $40 Public Sector Members, $45 Public Sector Non-Members, $15 Senior Members (65+) and Students
Information/Registration:
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