Pioneering Updates to Design Standards to Account for Climate Change
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2023: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: NAS 125
Presenter
Brenda Dix
ICF
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Biography
Brenda is a Director in ICF’s Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience team. In 2010 she led one of the nation’s first transportation sea level rise vulnerability assessments while employed at the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Since joining ICF in 2013, she has been at the vanguard of developing emerging resilience practices for transportation agencies. This includes leading the development of several FHWA handbooks on the topic, and supporting many state DOTs and MPOs to understand their climate change risks and develop resilience plans. She is particularly focused on mainstreaming climate change considerations into agency culture and practices. Brenda has an M.S. and B.S. from UC Berkeley in Civil Systems Engineering.
Co-presenter(s)
Maria Mutuc
Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)
Biography
Maria Mutuc, PE is the Resilience Program Manager for the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Maria joined VDOT in 2021 and was instrumental in the development of the VDOT Resilience Plan. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and has over 20 years of environmental and water resources engineering experience. She has worked for environmental consulting and transportation design firms with a focus on environmental compliance, assessment and documentation, sustainability, transportation stormwater management and drainage design. Maria has a B.S Chemical Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines and a M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering degree from Virginia Tech.
Matthew Lauffer
North Carolina Department of Transportation
Biography
Rose Marie Klee
Texas Department of Transportation
Pioneering Updates to Design Standards to Account for Climate Change
Category
Resilience Processes and Programs