ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice

The vast majority of building codes in the United States and abroad rely on consensus guidance provided by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the nation's oldest engineering society. With climate change continuing to worsen, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office (CPO) has forged a partnership with the University of Maryland (UMD) Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to help the nation account for climate change in future infrastructure design and construction to accelerate the development of climate-smart engineering codes and standards.

ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice was established in 2021 for facilitate the climate adaptation of engineering practices and infrastructure. This partnership between NOAA, the nation's largest provider of climate information, ASCE, the world's largest civil engineering professional society, and the UMD center with a focus on systems engineering will help the nation account for climate change in future infrastructure design and construction.

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Most Recent Task Force Update or Video

The ASCE-NOAA Task Force released their first document that summarizes the discussions between civil engineers and climate scientists on how to best integrate nonstationarity with extreme temperature, intense rainfall, straight-line wind, and coastal hazards into civil engineering planning. The report is available at https://doi.org/10.25923/e8kn-n884 (see article for more information). The Task Force plans to develop additional documents based on the ongoing discussions and interactions among ASCE, NOAA, and as appropriate other agencies to meet the ASCE-NOAA Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) commitments (see news release for more details).