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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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Infrastructure 2050: Our Mission

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.

Sustainability is the practice of meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, encompassing environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Disaster resilience is the capacity of a system, community, or society to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and adapt to the impacts of disasters, ensuring minimal disruption and rapid recovery.
 
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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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Discussions

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    RE: Climate Data for Infrastructure Design - What's ...

    By: Darya Stanskova

    This is a very relevant question, especially for infrastructure with long service life. In my experience, ... More

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    RE: National Forum on Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

    By: Darya Stanskova

    Hello William, Thank you for sharing this information. The National Forum on Nature-based Solutions ... More

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    RE: West Coast Flooding

    By: Darya Stanskova

    Hello Anna, Thank you for sharing this article and your insights. The challenges you mention are very ... More

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    2025 Lessons Learned

    By: Tirza Austin

    As 2025 comes to a close, I thought it would be helpful to reflect on the value created by this community ... More

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    RE: Resilient Infrastructure

    By: Darya Stanskova

    Dear Dr. McAnally, Thank you very much for the link and the information about the upcoming symposium, ... More

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Upcoming Events List


  • Monday
    8
    June

    Enhancing the Role of Structural Engineers in Catastrophe Modeling Workshop

    Community Workshop

    Jun 8, 08:00 AM - 04:30 PM (ET)
    Join SEI's Reliability and Performance Indicators technical committee for a full day workshop focusing on hazard, structural vulnerability, loss and resilience models. Participants will have expand their knowledge of these modules through panels then be asked to contribute via small sub groups. The day will conclude with all participants coming back together for report outs from their small groups. The information gathered will be used by the committee's special project team to create a list of recommendations that will be subsequently published by ASCE in the form of a technical report. Space for this workshop is very limited; those selected to attend will be contacted by 15 May 2026. #ResilientInfrastructureSystems #LessonslearnedfromCatastrophicDisasters #MeasuringandMaintainingInfrastructureforSustainabilityandResilience

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  • As a civil engineering graduate navigating the early stages of my career, I’ve come to believe that climate read more

  • “We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do read more

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