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October 30, 2019The Post-Sandy Initiative Publication on the 7th Anniversary of Superstorm Sandy
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On the seventh anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, AIANY’s Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) would like to highlight the Post-Sandy Initiative publication released a few short months after the storm affected the region in such significant, paradigm-shifting ways.
The initiative brought together stakeholders from across the AEC industry, city agencies, federal agency representatives, and community leadership to create a robust set of recommendations aimed at advancing the city and the region toward a resilient future—as relevant today as in 2012.
We have made much progress in the past seven years, yet much remains to be done to accomplish the collective goals set out in the report.
The document remains a cornerstone of the idea of building resilient capacity—for New York City and its enormous metro area, as well as for other cities around the United States and the world that are struggling to gain traction against the effects of climate change
We invite you to read the report and its Executive Summary as one way to understand how we might create a blueprint for better design planning, mitigation, and adaptation as we move forward in this era of rapid climate change.
Read the Post-Sandy Initiative: Full Report | Executive Summary
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. Meetings typically occur the second Wednesday of every month.
