Judy Huynh

Hudson County View: Rebuild by Design has also launched a new interactive map webpage that allows New Jersey residents to enter their home or business address to see if the infrastructure they depend on is at risk of flooding. Entitled “NJ Underwater: Public Infrastructure at Risk,” the webpage includes two interactive tools that map flood […]

CBS News: An alarming new analysis shows that one-third of New Jersey’s public infrastructure, like schools and hospitals, will be in a flood zone by 2050.

New Jersey News: A new analysis from ‘Rebuild by Design’ shows that one in four public buildings, including schools, hospitals and fire stations, are located in flood zones. By 2050, that figure is expected to rise to one in three. Two new tools are now available to help people see whether the facilities they depend

Insurance Journal: Rebuild by Design, a group that works with localities on policies to address climate challenges, is an advocate of “leveraging” insurance to support infrastructure. “Insurance has long served as a risk transfer mechanism, allowing households to transfer the risk of losses to insurance companies in exchange for monthly payments, or premiums,” the group

New Yorker: When Stratton first came to city hall, as an intern, in the summer of 2012, Hoboken had no reason to expect an infrastructure overhaul. Then Sandy hit, and the Obama Administration launched Rebuild by Design, a competition that offered roughly a billion dollars in federal money, with more expected from state and local

USA Herald: “It’s so obvious that investing in parks will save lives and livelihoods,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild By Design, who reviewed the study. Her organization previously found that a majority of city parks are vulnerable to flooding.

The City: “It’s so obvious that investing in parks will save lives and livelihoods,” said Amy Chester, director of Rebuild By Design, who reviewed the Blue Zones paper. Her organization last year released an analysis showing a majority of city parks will be at risk of flooding.

E Broad Street: The February report went on to say, “the Lower Manhattan SPD would be the first to see its user fee activated. This SPD would include the area protected by the series of resilience projects around southern part of the island [that] runs from the Lower East Side down the southern tip of

Babylon Beacon: “When you look at repeated flooding in coastal places like Long Beach and Freeport,” Amy Chester, managing director of the climate resilience nonprofit Rebuild by Design, said, “a huge part of the vulnerability comes down to how these neighborhoods were originally built, where houses went, how high they were built and what infrastructure