09/10/201710 TEAMS SELECTED TO MAP BAY AREA’S RESPONSE TO RISING SEA LEVELSSan Francisco Chronicle: With sea level rise expected to become a pressing threat here within decades, 10 design teams have been selected to…
09/06/2017LESSONS FROM HURRICANE SANDY HAS NY ON FIRM FOOTING AGAINST STORMSReal Estate Weekly: Fresh of Hurricane Harvey, days away from Irma and five years after New York was battered by its own Hurricane Sandy,&nb…
09/01/2017ELABORATE PROJECTS PLANNED TO STOP ANOTHER SANDYFOX 5 News - After Superstorm Sandy hit, a handful of groups were tasked with creating ways to protect communities in and around New Yo…
08/30/2017WHAT THE DUTCH CAN TEACH THE WORLD ABOUT MANAGING FLOODSCBC: The hurricane that has devastated Texas and Louisiana — and the catastrophic flooding in Sierra Leone and South East Asia — s…
08/23/2017THERE’S A HUGE, OVERLOOKED ECONOMIC THREAT TO NEW YORK CITYBusiness Insider: Like most American cities that border an ocean, New York City is at risk for flooding due to sea level rise. Sea level …
07/27/2017WALLS WON’T SAVE OUR CITIES FROM RISING SEAS. HERE’S WHAT WILLNBC News: To some people, climate change seems like a problem only for future generations. But for residents of many coastal cities, th…
06/08/2017EXPERTS: CITIES MUST THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT RESILIENCE PLANNINGGovTech.com: Resilience planning involves understanding the most pressing issues within a community, and working across sectors of private i…
06/02/2017DESIGNING FOR DISASTER, BEFORE IT HAPPENS: RESILIENT BY DESIGN SEEKS ARCHITECTSArchinect: Disasters resulting from climate change, such as sea level rise, often cause billions of dollars of damage. In an era when the Un…
06/01/2017RESILIENT BY DESIGN LAUNCHES BAY AREA CHALLENGEMetropolitan Transportation Commission: Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, an innovative new approach to prepare the Bay Area for the…
05/30/2017GLOBAL DESIGN CHALLENGE SETS SIGHTS ON ADAPTING BAY AREA INFRASTRUCTURESF Business Times: Resilient by Design is an open call for multidisciplinary teams comprised of architects, engineers, designers and ot…
05/30/2017DESIGN TEAMS COMPETE FOR BEST SOLUTION TO SEA-LEVEL CONUNDRUMSan Francisco Chronicle: An ambitious design competition that seeks to make the Bay Area a model for how to prepare for sea-level rise kicks…
04/17/2017REBUILD BY DESIGN’S ENDURING LEGACYArchitect Magazine: The most moving architectural renderings I’ve seen lately show the New Jersey Meadowlands, not far from where I gre…
03/24/2017RIDING THE WAVE: UNITS IN WATER TRACK DATA FOR LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECTSI Live: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, more commonly known as the ADCP, is a key part of the Livin…
03/23/2017LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT: CAN IT PROTECT US FROM FUTURE STORMS?SI Advance: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the borough in October 2012, it took the lives of 24 Staten Islan…
02/17/2017DEMYSTIFYING HUDFast Company: Like many large federal departments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is complex and misunderstood. …
02/04/2017BAY AREA: RESILIENT BY DESIGN CHALLENGE TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WON’TImpact Design Hub: In response to President Trump’s resolve to ignore climate change and any policies that could help lessen the effects of …