CANCELLED due to speaker deployment to recent hurricane sites - to be rescheduled in Spring 2025 (10/23/24)
“Increasing Climate Resilience through Grants, Research, Policies, Tools and Building Codes”
Presented by John Ingargiola, EI, CBO, CFM (Lead Physical Scientist)
FEMA
Friday, November 1, 2024
12:00 PM: Boxed lunches available
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM: Presentation
Peter Kiewit Institute Room 160 (Omaha), Kiewit Hall A253 (Lincoln), or Zoom
Please use the form below to RSVP for lunch or the Zoom link, preferably by 5 PM on Tues., October 29, 2024.
John is a Lead Physical Scientist and Building Codes Policy Advisor in FEMA’s Resilience Organization in Washington, D.C.. Currently, John is the SME lead for the National Initiative to Advance Building Codes, which is administered by the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group’s Building Codes Task Force, comprised of 20 federal agencies and liaisons from the White House. John has been involved in flood and wind building codes and standards development for over 20 years, serving on ASCE standards committees for ASCE 7 and ASCE 24. John also engages in policy development, hazard mitigation guidance and coordination with mitigation partners in the public and private sector. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Civil Engineering from the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art.