MON-DD2 - Now What? How Resilience Becomes Reality

Learning Outcomes:

• Share climate adaptation toolkits developed by landscape architects and engineers to address climate change in a diversity of waterfront settings in major urban areas.
• Attendees will learn about specific regulatory and agency requirements that drive design decisions, how these requirements will affect future similar projects, and how designers can stay one step ahead.
• Attendees will learn construction details, methods, and conventions that can be applied to similar projects to better integrate flood-risk reduction infrastructure into waterfront parks, plazas, esplanade, and streetscapes.
• We will share with the audience techniques used to integrate community and stakeholder goals and requirements into flood-risk reduction projects, both during the engagement process and ultimately in design solutions.
• Attendees will understand planting criteria and performance requirements around FEMA certified flood-infrastructure, and how maintenance and access concerns can be mitigated.
• We will share examples of integration of programming and recreation on and around flood risk reduction infrastructure, explaining the specific criteria for placement, operations, and access concerns.