Track: Earth, Wind & Fire
Sponsor: 2.5 Global Climate Change
Chair: Elizabeth Tomlinson, P.E., Member, TKDA, St. Paul, MN

ASHRAE members need to understand how to design our built environment for future climates. Along with climate change mitigation, planning for and adapting to tomorrow's climate is a hot topic for public and private owners, consultants and citizens. This panel of resiliency experts presents various viewpoints on needed building design changes to address increased weather extremes. Panelists include city, state and federal level resiliency viewpoints.

1. Safeguarding Assets for a Robust Relevant Practice
Ann Kosmal, F.A.I.A., LEED AP BD +C, CPHC, PDC, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington, DC
Uncertainty and climate science are specifically addressed in the session as it pertains to the professional ethics and liabilities of licensed design professionals working to incorporate plausible climate futures. The presenting practitioner uses examples of statistical downscaling and discusses the limitations and opportunities for action.

2. Making Buildings Resilient
Daniel Nall, P.E., HBDP, CPMP and BEMP, Fellow Life Member, Syska Hennessy, New York, NY
This presentation focuses on how to prepare buildings for natural disasters and acts of terror. It identifies the elements of a building risk assessment, stressing realistic threats and realistic desired outcomes. It shows strategies for making building life safety systems more resistant to catastrophic events. The presentation presents the approach and some of the recommendations of the New York City Building Resilience Task Force, a group of professionals convened by the Mayor of New York to develop recommendations for the city and for building owners in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Sandy.

3. State-Level Resiliency Planning
Matthew Lieuallen, J.D., Ecology and Environment, Inc., Portland, OR
This presentation explores a range of strategies that states across the nation have implemented for resiliency guidelines. In Oregon, communities live under the threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and resultant tsunami. The state has developed the Oregon Resilience Plan and the 2016 Cascadia Rising exercise. In Colorado, the state developed an innovative and programmatic approach to resilience that resulted in its first Colorado Resiliency Framework and capability building efforts statewide. In New York, the aftermaths of Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee created opportunity for community-driven planning through the New York Rising Communities program.

Presented: Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 8:00-9:30 AM
Run Time: 90 min.

This is a zip file that consists of PowerPoint slides synchronized with the audio-recording of the speaker (recorded presentation), PDF files of the slides, and audio only (mp3) for each presentation.