Designing Resilient Waterfront Spaces

Designing Resilient Waterfront Spaces

Sponsored by Coasts, Oceans, Ports & Rivers Institute Boston Chapter
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Jacobs, 120 St. James Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02116
6:00 PM Registration and Dinner; 7:00 PM Presentation

Speaker:
Julie Eaton Ernst, PE
Resilience Team Leader, Weston & Sampson

Julie Eaton Ernst, PE is a resilience team leader at Weston & Sampson. She has worked on several award-winning climate resilience projects, including the City of Boston Climate Resilience Design Guidelines for Protecting Rights-of-Way, the Resilient MA Action Team Statewide Climate Resilience Design Standards Tool, and design and construction of several of Boston’s resilient waterfront spaces, including Langone Park & Puopolo Playground in the North End, Moakley Park in South Boston, and schematic design of Carlton Wharf and Lewis Mall in East Boston. Julie will be speaking about her on-going work integrating climate resilience in the public realm, and some of the technical challenges engineers face given complex subsurface conditions, aging seawalls, and stormwater management. 

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about climate change projections and vulnerabilities/opportunities in complex urban waterfronts.
• Learn about challenges and strategies for implementing coastal resilience on filled tidal lands, including settlement, drainage, underground utilities and contamination. 
• Understand how to pair visionary design with robust and iterative analyses, and clear engineering, programming, and maintenance guidelines for effective climate adaptation planning.

Registration Deadline: Monday, March 20, 2023
$80 Members, $100 Non-Members
$70 Public Sector Members, $80 Public Sector Non-Members
$30 Senior Members (65+) & Students

Information/Registration: 
Click here to view the event flyer. Register to attend this meeting and pay by credit card online by clicking Registration above. To register online for an event at the BSCES member rate you must login using your BSCES assigned username and password. If you do not know your BSCES member login information email bsces@engineers.org or call 617/227-5551. You can also register for this event by mail or email. To do so, download and complete a BSCES Event Registration Form and follow the submission instructions. Cancellations received after March 20, 2023 and no-shows will be billed.

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