NOAA, University of Maryland, ASCE to Advance Climate-Smart Construction
The NOAA Climate Program Office has forged a partnership with the University of Maryland (UMD) Center for Technology and Systems Management and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to accelerate the development of climate-smart engineering codes and standards.
The partnership is being announced this week as nations gather in Glasgow, United Kingdom, for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). NOAA hosted a panel discussion at COP26 on Nov. 9 on the topic of partnerships to advance climate-smart construction. The partnership between NOAA, a national provider of climate information, ASCE, a global civil engineering professional society, and the UMD center, with a focus on systems engineering, is being established to help the nation account for climate change in future infrastructure design and construction. The vast majority of building codes in the U.S. and abroad rely on consensus guidance provided by ASCE, one of the nation’s oldest engineering society.