Join Dr. Abi Aghayere, Professor of Civil Engineering at Drexel University and Mike Moriaty, Shannon MacLachlan and John Miller, from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to discuss Coastal Infrastructure and Properties, addressing construction, maintenance, and retrofitting needed to make properties more resilient to increasing storm activity.
Coastal Infrastructure and Properties: What We Learned and What’s Being Done to Make Communities More Resilient
Date: Friday, October 7, 2022
Time: 12:00pm (Noon)
Location: Online
Speakers:
Dr. Abi Aghayere, Professor of Civil Engineering, Drexel University and featured engineering expert for CNN, Voice of America TV, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, and USA Today. He recently delivered the keynote address at the 2022 Convention of the Structural Engineers Association of California, gave a “special invited seminar” to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Construction Safety Team and, served as a panelist at the 2022 Smart Cities Connect Fall Conference.
Mike Moriaty, Shannon MacLachlan and John Miller, Region 2, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Mike’s team manages the Coastal Communities program for communities in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and, the newest round of Resilience Grants to help communities reduce the impact of increasingly powerful, adverse storm events.
