Roy Ingraffia
National Director, International Masonry Institute
Chas Peppers
Architect, SOM Research + Innovation team
Eliot Wall
Senior Director, GAF Roads
01:15 PM - 02:20 PM

Session 1: Masonry and Augmented Reality

Nathan Baxter
Director of Design and Digital Services, Armstrong World Industries
Shivani Cott
Senior Scientist, 9 Foundations
Michael Lorenz
Senior Director of Technology, Armstrong World Industries
09:20 AM - 10:15 AM

Challenges facing the built environment have become increasingly extreme during the last quarter-century. As we embark toward 2050, the building industry is reckoning with significant threats, but we are also seeking collaborative solutions. Among these solutions are physical and digital technologies that, together, can make buildings more resilient, sustainable, and optimized for the well-being of occupants.

Jordan Berg
Program Director, Dynamics, Control & Systems Diagnostics
Khershed Cooper
Program Director, Advanced Manufacturing
Daan Liang
Program Director, Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment
Lesley Sneed
Program Director, Engineering for Civil Infrastructure
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Robust and reliable civil infrastructure is foundational to economic vitality, innovation, and public wellbeing. Civil infrastructure comes in many forms that include physical assets (e.g., power, water, wastewater, telecommunications, transportation systems, and networks), critical facilities and protection systems (e.g., schools, hospitals, and flood control systems), and networks that interconnect them.

Louise Foulkes
Caribbean Director and Engineering Program Manager, Build Change
Meghan Walsh
Architect, US Department of Agriculture
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

As the frequency and severity of climate-related events increase, the need for “integrated” resilient, green, and healthy housing retrofits has never been more critical. Technical assistance plays a pivotal role with supporting communities and stakeholders to develop, implement, and maintain integrated housing solutions.

This panel will explore innovative approaches to technical assistance in the context of integrated housing retrofits, focusing on how expertise can empower stakeholders across the housing value chain to build safe, sustainable, and adaptable housing structures.

Lucian Niemeyer
CEO, Building Cyber Security
02:35 PM - 03:40 PM

While recent cyber incidents to data and software disrupted the lives of Americans, national headlines also have carried stark warnings about foreign hackers positioning cyber “bombs” in American infrastructure to wreak havoc on our economy and cause harm to citizens and communities – a real threat to our physical safety.

09:20 AM - 10:15 AM

Services provided by lifeline infrastructure systems are critical to the recovery of social functions after an earthquake. Lifeline infrastructure includes water, wastewater, drainage, electric power, communications, gas and liquid fuels, solid waste, and transportation systems. They are complicated and large geographically distributed systems built over long periods of time with specialized components made of different materials.

01:15 PM - 02:20 PM
Session 1 - Resilience at Scale: Connecting Human Wellbeing with Planetary Health

The building industry has been working on sustainability since LEED began, yet we still contribute almost 40% of the global greenhouse gas emissions every year. The COVID-19 pandemic elucidated the significant role the built environment plays in creating healthy buildings and resilient communities. How can we leverage this inflection point to promote people and planet centric designs?

Terri McAllister
Deputy Division Chief, Materials and Structural Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kent Yu
Principal, SEFT Consulting Group
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Communities and businesses face a variety of natural and manmade hazards, approaching resilience with different focuses. As buildings and infrastructure systems are foundational for supporting social and economic needs, many communities at the city and state levels have developed resilience plans (focusing on physical infrastructure) and taken actions to improve performance and recovery of their built environment.

Anthony Guerra
Sr. Director, AEC Quality Assurance & Technical Content, Green Building Initiative
Joseph Sutkowi
Chief Waterfront Design Officer, Waterfront Alliance
Jay Valgora
Principal & Founder, Studio V
Christian Vitulli
Senior Associate, Robert A.M. Stern Architects
09:20 AM - 10:15 AM

Over 50% of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of the coast. But as we’ve seen with recent storms, floodwaters can impact those well away from the ocean. If we don’t adapt existing infrastructure and carefully design new waterfront sites, millions of people will be subject to destruction and loss caused by extreme climatic events and sea level rise. Uninhabitable buildings will displace many, putting additional strain on an existing housing crisis.

Richard Graves
Director, Center for Sustainable Building Research
Ariane Laxo
Director of Sustainability, HGA Architects & Engineers
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Infrastructure is the foundational structure on which society is built. In practice, this simple definition often holds, as our infrastructure consists of complex networks of long-lasting and interconnected systems that serve specific place-based societal needs.

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