Embedding climate change resilience in infrastructure, webinar
- English
About the event
This webinar will be delivered by Professor John Dora, director of Climate Sense and John Dora Consulting.
In recent years there has been a growing realisation across the world that the climate is changing at a far faster rate than predicted. This webinar will present new challenges to civil engineers as society will depend more than ever on an economy that is resilient to future climate impacts, as well as being low carbon and sustainable in resource consumption.
John will outline how the industry can prepare and embed resilience to climate change in infrastructure, bringing insights from research programmes and developments in guidance and standards.
He will cover ISO 14090:2019 Adaptation to Climate Change (John led the development of this, the first international standard on climate change resilience), and will outline his work with BSI and CEN on how future resilience can be factored into Eurocodes and other infrastructure standards.
Time
18:00 - 19:00 (UK time)
Registration
Speakers
John Dora
John is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, and of the Permanent Way Institution. He has the rare privilege of being an engineer who is also a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Now in consultancy, with forty years’ experience in infrastructure - mostly flood defence and rail-based - spanning policy to delivery, his career has covered research, construction and maintenance of civil engineering infrastructure and he has become an acknowledged international expert in climate adaptation and resilience. As well as leading the International Standards Organisation's strategy on adaptation standards, John chairs the UK's Infrastructure Operators' Adaptation Forum which he co-founded in 2012, and teaches railway asset management at the University of Birmingham and, as a visiting professor, lectures on infrastructure resilience at the University of Surrey.