Welcome to the ASCE Sustainability & Resilience Community of Practice - Let's get to know each other

Thank you for joining one of ASCE's Communities of Practice, Sustainability & Resilience! We hope that you'll find this space welcoming and that you start your own discussions, create blog posts, and attend virtual events that will be coming in the future.

To help get things started, let's get to know each other. Please reply to this post and tell us who you are! Respond with your name, where you are from and a little bit about what you do. Also, if you'd like, please add an example of something you've seen on the topic of sustainability & resilience that was surprising or new that inspired you and maybe changed the way you do some of your work moving forward. I'll go first.

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By developing guidance and standards, the design and construction industry can more consciously design, build and maintain infrastructure systems while reducing pollution and warming within our communities.

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New toolkit centralizes tools and resources to improve resilience

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released a new online toolkit, Pathways to Resilient Communities. This clearinghouse of available technical tools and resources is designed for community leaders looking to improve their built environment’s ability to respond to increasingly severe storms and other threats to vertical and horizontal infrastructure.

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Survey for Submitting Examples of Sustainable Infrastructure Procurement Practices

Sustainability and Disaster Resilience principles are increasing being required in infrastructure procurement.  Fill out the following fields to submit your example of sustainable infrastructure procurement.

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Disaster Response

From site assessments to recovery work, civil engineers play a crucial role in disaster response, ensuring that communities build back safer and more resilient.

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