Building Climate Resilient Infrastructure Systems

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September 26, 2019
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Lisa Prime facilitates discussion at Ryerson workshop on emerging and best practices in building resilient infrastructure

The workshop was hosted by Ryerson University in collaboration with the Ontario Climate Consortium. Participants included cross sector experts, municipalities and all levels of government and university academics. The focus included identifying issues, initiatives and actions to support collaboration and partnership approaches to advancing resilient infrastructure in the face of climate change.

Lisa Prime, PRIME Strategy & Planning participated in a panel discussion as part of the day, sharing policy and examples of how to advance green infrastructure and innovations to achieve performance objectives and support resiliency. As a facilitator for workshop discussion, Lisa led practical discussion and site related activities for improvement a case scenario impacted by climate change effects of flooding and loss of emergency services.