Designing to address climate change will require a paradigm shift for engineers who must plan for rainfall, floods, drought and sea-level rise without historical models to guide them. An American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) committee is hoping to help engineers make that shift through a new manual of practice to be released later this year on adaptive risk management for climate and weather resilience.
ASCE would likely have produced such a manual at some point, but it was Bilal Ayyub, former chairman of the Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate, University of Maryland civil and environment engineering professor and manual author, who had the urgency to get the manual out to practicing engineers.