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Category Archives: Resilience
LESSONS FROM A BUILDING COLLAPSE: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?
In the early morning of June 24, 2021, many of us in Southeast Florida and in the rest of the country waked-up to the news of a tragic partial building collapse in Surfside. A young boy was rescued alive from … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, Causality, Characterization of Impacts, Climate Change, Disasters, Emergency Management, Featured, Global Warming, Hazard Assessment, Hazards, MY OPINION, Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Vulnerability Assessment
Tagged Building collapse, Building Recertification, Champlain Tower South, Florida, Florida Office of State Attorney, Grand Jury, Miami-Dade County, National Construction Safety Team, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, Surfide
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Southeast Florida needs a course correction in climate adaptation!
On 31 May 2019, on the eve of the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane season, Climate Wire published an excellent and timely article https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060435875 by journalist Dan Cusick titled “Threat of costly storm surge rise along coasts”. In this article Mr. Cusick … Continue reading