Gresham Smith is proud to announce that Sustainability and Resiliency Program Manager Lauren Seydewitz, along with several other industry professionals, will speak at the 2024 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, November 12. The theme for this year’s conference is “Built to Scale,” and spotlights the green building community’s commitment to wholesale market transformation, bringing proven solutions and strategies to global communities.
Read the presentation summary below and learn more about Greenbuild 2024 here.
Resilient Project Planning: A Vital Engagement Process in Action
The word resilience can encompass a lot of different things. A successful resilient building design will respond to the regional climate hazards and specific vulnerabilities of a given site, be adapted to the project type, and align directly with client needs. This panel will showcase three case studies from a range of geographic locations, typologies, and scales. Brief, process-oriented presentations will illustrate the key steps to project planning that fully integrate resilience into the development and design process. Speakers will share insights from: 1) client and stakeholder engagement around flood risk to develop the Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Plan for City of Philadelphia, Department of Aviation’s Philadelphia International Airport; 2) prioritizing social resilience at the Brockton Behavioral Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts; 3) partnering with an affordable housing developer to mitigate impacts from extreme climate events in California. From each of these, participants will learn about client starting points, motivation for resilience, process, results, and relevant resources. This session will provide participants with actionable tools, so that they leave the session feeling ready to broach the topic of resilience within their own teams in a meaningful way. We will invite session participants to engage in an interactive discussion. Join us as we work collectively to expand the capacity of the building industry by designing for resilience.
