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Are You Practicing Engineering With Obsolete Ideas About Flood Risk?

Decades of development in marginal floodplains—made worse by misrepresented and underestimated flood hazard—are now translating into the inevitable accumulation of flood disasters.  With further exacerbation from accelerating climate change and deteriorating drainage infrastructure, property-stakeholders—owners, renters, managers, lenders, investors, etc.—are escalating demand for appropriate property-specific flood hazard and risk information.  Escalating demand is converging with rapid advances in technology (terrain and flood data, flood modeling, GIS, cloud computing for hundreds of scenarios, AI, and HD-FIMs) which finally enable supplying this information. And this convergence is revolutionizing the State-of-the-Practice for flood risk professionals.  To ensure we’re up to speed we’ll review 12 Pillars of Today’s Flood Risk SOP and 10 Priorities for Flood Risk Professionals.

Bio

Bob is a Past-President of the ASCE Baton Rouge Branch and Louisiana Section and is a member of ASCE 24 Flood Resistant Design and Construction standards committee.  His 45-year career in flood and environmental hydrology has addressed complex challenges facing our rivers, coast, wetlands, and groundwater—with a passion for innovation in risk-based decisions.