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October 30, 2017Hurricane Sandy Looking Forward
On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Its size, strength, and timing with high tide created an unprecedented natural disaster for our city and region. By the time the storm surge receded, 43 New Yorkers had lost their lives, 2 million people were without power, and $19 billion in damage had been done.
As we approach the fifth anniversary this weekend, we know many of you will be thinking of this milestone and the state of resilience planning in New York. MAS has compiled below a list of events related to the Sandy anniversary—commemorations, conversations, and opportunities to come together with friends and neighbors.
And if you were not able to join us for the MAS Summit for New York City earlier this month, we invite you to watch our sessions on resilience.
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New York
Design for Risk and Reconstruction
DfRR is set up to explore the design community's potential for disaster mitigation and adaptation. The mission of the committee is to foster awareness within the profession and the public of the necessity to anticipate risk from the scale of a building to comprehensive regional planning. The committee’s goals are to formulate programs and develop professional-public partnerships that provide a forum for greater risk awareness. The sequence from designing for risk to mitigate natural and man-made disasters, disaster preparedness, disaster relief response and recovery, and reconstruction will be examined in order to improve the ability of the designed environment to aesthetically, functionally, technically, and economically serve and protect the health, safety and welfare of its inhabitants. The Board of the AIA New York chapter formally established the DfRR Committee on May 17, 2011 and sanctioned the committee name on June 21, 2011. The Committee generally meets the second Wednesday of every month.