NSPE PE Institute
Sustainable and Resilient Pavements under a Changing Climate
This webinar is hosted by the New Hampshire Society of Professional Engineers (NHSPE)
Experience Level: Any level of experience
Sustainability and resilience are concepts that are increasingly at the forefront of discussions around climate change and transportation infrastructure. The incorporation of climate change into the analysis, design, and management processes is a complex issue that requires the collaboration of scientists, engineers, practitioners, and various stakeholders. This presentation will discuss various strategies for increasing both resilience and sustainability of pavements under changing climate conditions. Basic information on future climate data and various adaptation frameworks will be introduced, and strategies for bringing together diverse interdisciplinary groups needed to address the challenge of changing climate on transportation infrastructure will be discussed. Specific applications of these concepts to pavement design and management will be explained and illustrated with examples.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand how future climate data is developed.
2. Define sustainability and resilience as they relate to pavements under changing climate conditions.
3. Be introduced to adaptation concepts and frameworks for evaluating options.
4. Give examples of how the concepts can be applied to pavement design and management.
5. Have an appreciation of the interdisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder engagement that is needed.
1 PDH
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Jo E. Sias, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
Univ of NH
Dr. Jo Sias is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UNH and is currently serving as undergraduate coordinator. She received her BS from UNH in 1994 and graduate degrees from North Carolina State University before returning to UNH to join the faculty in 2001. Her research focuses on the sustainability and resilience of asphalt materials and pavements specifically with respect to recycling, cracking, and aging, and on the impacts of climate change on transportation infrastructure. She is director of the UNH Center for Infrastructure Resilience to Climate (UCIRC) and co-director of the Infrastructure and Climate Network (ICNet). Dr. Sias is the Editor-in-Chief of Road Materials and Pavement Design journal, a past president of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, and she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK in 2015. She lives in Nottingham NH and enjoys a range of outdoor activities with her three daughters and dog Rusty.
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