The Ontario Good Roads Association and Rural Ontario Municipal Association invited Engineers Canada’s Practice Lead for Globalization and Sustainable Development, David Lapp, FEC, P.Eng., to present at its 2016 Combined Conference in Toronto, Ont., from February 21-24, 2016.
Lapp presented Engineers Canada’s Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) Protocol and its application to municipal infrastructure during the conference’s climate change session.
Over 100 elected officials and senior staff attended the session focusing on the tools that municipalities can use for climate change adaptation. The session covered the expected changes in Ontario’s climate and the need for adaptation of its infrastructure, the principles and applications of the Protocol and other tools, as well as the contributions engineers make towards planning and implementing the adaptation of municipal infrastructure to our changing climate.
The OGRA/ROMA Combined Conference annually attracts more than 2,000 municipal leaders from across Canada and leading thinkers from around the world to discuss topics of local, provincial, national, and international importance.
The conference’s goal is to invigorate public debate about how Ontario’s municipalities will respond to emergent challenges and opportunities of which climate change is one of the important issues for municipalities.
