BOSTON, MA, April 25, 2022 — ClimaTwin™, Climate Risk Analysis for Infrastructure Digital Twins™, is proud to participate in the April 2022 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) Ambassador Roundtable, with Mary C. Erickson, Acting Director of the National Weather Service.
Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Lead Douglas Hildebrand presented opening and closing remarks, and facilitated discussions by the ambassadors. During the roundtable, topics included NWS Service Equity and the evolving role of the ambassadors, and best practices for engaging new user groups.
Further, ClimaTwin is a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador™. The ambassador initiative recognizes NOAA partners, including ClimaTwin and many other organizations and institutions across the United States, who are improving our nation’s readiness against extreme weather, water, and climate events.
ClimaTwin commits to partnering with NOAA and other Weather-Ready Nation Ambassadors to strengthen national resilience against future weather and climate extremes. For more information about the Weather-Ready Nation program, please visit www.weather.gov/wrn. Weather-Ready Nation — Be a Force of Nature.
ClimaTwin™ empowers infrastructure stakeholders to mitigate climate risks and assess adaptation actions across the total asset lifecycle.
With the increase in the frequency and severity of hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, and other adverse and extreme weather events, America’s infrastructure must be more resilient. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) encourages infrastructure stakeholders, including owners, operators, governments, and engineers, to leverage new technologies, methods, and materials, and to adopt current codes and standards, in order to minimize recovery cost and time.
Accordingly, the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program doubled funding for the fiscal year 2021 projects, awarding grants to state governments and local communities to undertake pre-disaster hazard mitigation projects. ASCE was instrumental in the underlining legislation, the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018, which authorized BRIC, and collaborating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement the program.
Consensus-based codes incorporated in the BRIC program include the following ASCE codes and standards, and ASCE Manuals of Practice (MOP):
Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures ASCE/SEI 7-16
Flood Resistant Design and Construction ASCE/SEI 24-14
Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings ASCE/SEI 41-17
Standard Specification for the Design of Cold-formed Stainless-Steel Structural Members ASCE 8-02
Wind Tunnel Testing for Buildings and Other Structures ASCE 49-12
Hazard-Resilient Infrastructure: Analysis and Design ASCE MOP 144
Guidelines for Electrical Transmission Line Structural Loading ASCE MOP 74, 4th Edition
Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management ASCE MOP 140
