CIRCLE Distinguished Lecture Series Engineering Disaster-Resilient Systems in an Uncertain Future Dr. Jack Baker Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Associate Dean in the Stanford Doer School of Sustainability
Stanford University Tuesday, December 17, 2024
9:00 a.m. CDT - 11:00 p.m. Beijing Time
via Zoom ABSTRACT: There are several radical changes underway in the design of the built environment to resist disasters. First, the traditional practice of designing only for occupant safety is being questioned. Societal stakeholders are increasingly also demanding that our facilities and infrastructure recover rapidly and for reasonable costs. Achieving these demands requires a deeper understanding of the recovery process, and of the interaction between the built environment and human systems. Second, climate change, rapid urbanization, and other drivers mean that our experience with disasters is no longer a direct guide for what we will experience in the future. Achieving future performance targets thus requires new predictive techniques and tools to design for performance objectives. This lecture will discuss these changes and describe research underway to advance our ability to create a disaster-resilient built environment. Download the poster with the full abstract & speaker biography here >> This lecture is open to the public, so please forward this email to interested individuals. You can register directly for the lecture by clicking below. In case you missed the previous Circle Distinguished Lectures, they are available at the following link: circle.cee.illinois.edu/circle-distinguished-lecture-series |