PIEVC Webinar Series: Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessments for Infrastructure
The PIEVC Program Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of the PIEVC Practitioner’s Network through the upcoming Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Infrastructure Webinar Series and Global Forum.
The Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) Protocol was developed to assist engineers in factoring climate change impacts into plans for design, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure and buildings. The community of PIEVC practitioners is rapidly growing across Canada and the world, and practices are evolving. This Practitioners’ Network will create new connections among individuals and organizations and engender a renewed sense of shared purpose for those whose practice involves planning for and building climate resilient built environments, communities, and economies.
** Please note, the time of each webinar will vary based on time zones of international presenters. All webinars will be recorded and available to all registrants.
| DATE | WEBINAR |
| August 25, 11:00am – 12:30pm EDT | PIEVC Program: Background, Status and New Directions Moderator: Erik Sparling, Climate Risk Institute Status, background, resources (CRI, ICLR, GIZ) Practitioner Panel Discussion with: – Pippa Cookson-Hills, Climate Adaptation Specialist, City of Calgary, Canada – Vladimir Naranjo, Gestion de Proyectos, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitecos (CFIA), Costa Rica – Harshan Radhakrishnan, Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Initiatives, Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Canada The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS WEBINAR BELOW! |
| September 22, 9:00am – 10:30am EDT | From Assessment to Implementation of Adaptation Action Moderator: Dan Sandink, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction PIEVC adaptation case studies from Canada and Vietnam with moderated discussion – Hiran Sandanayake, Senior Engineer, Water Resources, City of Ottawa – Marvin Ingebrigtsen, Manager of Engineering Services, Town of Grimsby – Nguyễn Trung Nam, Researcher, Southern Institute of Water Resources Planning, Vietnam – Vo Bang Nga, Department of Science, Education, Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS WEBINAR BELOW! |
| October 20, 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT | Institutionalizing Climate Change and Infrastructure Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (CCVRA): PIEVC in Adaptation Plans, Professional Practice, and other Mechanisms Moderator: Benjamin Hodick, GIZ Examples from Canada and Costa Rica of how access to PIEVC has shaped the institutionalization of CCVRA within governments and professions – Harshan Radhakrishnan, Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Initiatives, Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Canada – Nazareth Rojas, Expert Climate Change Adaptation, National Meteorological Institute (IMN) of Costa Rica – Ivan Delgado, Director, Department for Climate Change, Ministry for Natural Resources and the Environment, Costa Rica The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS WEBINAR BELOW! |
| November 17, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST | Climate services for CCVRA: Lessons learned and new tools supporting steps 1 and 2 of the PIEVC Protocol Moderator: Erik Sparling, Climate Risk Institute – Dr. Norman Shippee, Climate Scientist, Stantec – Dr. Katherine Pingree-Shipee, Climate Scientist, Stantec – Dr. Modathir Zaroug, Regional Water Resources Modeller, Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Secretariat, Entebbe, Uganda – Sami Hamad, Water resources engineer, NBI/Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program–Coordination Unit (NELSAP–CU) The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS WEBINAR BELOW! |
| December 15, 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST | Large Portfolio Analyses using the PIEVC Process Moderator: Benjamin Hodick, GIZ Climate risk assessments to build resilience in the Brazilian Port Sector: Brazil’s National Agency for Waterway Transportation, ANTAQ, has conducted a portfolio assessment of climate risk for 21 seaports. The assessment allowed the organisation to select the 3 most vulnerable ports for conducting a detailed PIEVC assessment which will be completed on December 6th. The experience in Brazil has offered valuable insights for the development of the PIEVC portfolio screening guide – José Gonçalves Moreira Neto, Development and Studies Manager, Brazil’s National Agency for Waterway Transportation (Agência Nacional de Transportes Aquaviários (ANTAQ) Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructure in all Northwest Territories Communities: Climate WSP completed a Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment of critical infrastructure services (water, wastewater, waste, graveyards) infrastructure, and transportation assets (roads, bridges, ferries) for 33 NWT communities using the PIEVC protocol. Climate data and asset vulnerabilities were used to develop an assessment framework and support the GNWT in budgeting for resilient infrastructure – Virginia Sarrazin, Climate Resilience Lead Advisor, WSP Golder The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR BELOW. |
| January 19, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST | Application of the PIEVC High Level Screening Guide Moderator: Dan Sandink, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction An introduction to the PIEVC High Level Screening Guide – Jeff O’Driscoll, Associated Engineering CASE STUDIES: – Application of the PIEVC High Level Screening Guide for BC MOTI Cariboo Road Recovery Projects – Zane Sloan, IBI – Adapting the PIEVC HLSG and BC HRVA processes for High Level Assessments of New Buildings – Charling Li, City of Vancouver – BGIS Federal Government Building Portfolio – Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments (2021-2022), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada -Andrew Harkness, Morrison Hershfield and Joel Nodelman, Nodelcorp Consulting The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR BELOW. BONUS WEBINAR! High Level Screening Guide Case Studies, Part 2 Moderator: Dan Sandink, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction HLSG in Municipal Climate Adaptation Plans: An Ontario Example – Quentin Chiotti, Matrix Solutions Inc. Use of HLSG for Private Investment in Real Estate Portfolios – Glenn Milner, JLL HLSG Application to Wastewater System in Charlottetown, PEI – Abishek Pokharel, UPEI Application of HLSG for Three Bridges in Ontario – Lindsay Allen, CBCL The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR BELOW. |
| February 16, 9:00am – 10:30am EST | PIEVC Green Moderator: Katharina Schmidt, GIZ Join Stephanie Austin, NIRAS – IP Consult, to learn more about this framework for applying the PIEVC Protocol and conducting climate risk assessments and incorporating broader systems thinking or an ecosystems-based approach. This will be followed by a case study from Lesotho with Migwi Matsolo. The slides from this webinar are now available HERE. WATCH THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR BELOW. |
| March 16, 11:00pm – 12:30pm EST | Integration of the PIEVC Process into Asset Management Toolkits Moderator: Erik Sparling, Climate Risk Institute ** This webinar has been canceled. Please join us at the PIEVC Global Forum to learn more about PIEVC and Asset Management Toolkits! |
| April 18 – 20, 2023 | Join us for the GLOBAL FORUM in Vancouver, BC Conference program coming soon! See the event webpage for more information. |
The PIEVC Alliance, includes the Climate Risk Institute (CRI), the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
