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Water-related disasters pose a serious risk to an institution's mission, physical assets, and reputation. While the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Galveston is largely resilient to its harsh weather conditions, some critical threats remain. Its challenging path to water resilience serves as roadmap for other institutions seeking to mitigate risk and increase safety. This session will discuss UTMB's in-place campus climate resilience, its remaining challenges, how its revised master plan sets the course to mitigate flood and water service risks. Join us to discover how this ambitious but practical journey is applicable to all institutions subject to water-related events.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess whether your campus's critical facilities are adequately resilient to harmful effects of climate change.
2. Inform your campus leaders of the imperative to revisit campus infrastructure, building, and operational resilience.
3. Outline the siting and design process to make future critical facilities resilient to safety risks.
4. Discuss how to implement successful operational preparedness and response to disaster-scale climate and weather events to ensure campus safety.

Presenters:

Joss Hurford, Resilience Consultant, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
Russell Rodecap, Associate Vice President, University Texas Medical Branch

Delivered 07/22/2024.

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