Climate Intelligence for Design - From Sensors to Specifications

Environmental data becomes powerful only when it changes design decisions. This session examines how flood sensors, hydrologic models, digital twins, and water-quality monitoring can refine design standards, structural details, and long-term maintenance plans. Panelists will share how real-time environmental intelligence, currents, groundwater levels, salinity, acidity, and ecological performance can guide more adaptive and resilient shoreline, landscape, and infrastructure design. Speakers Dustin Atchison, PE, Global Solutions Director for Water Resources, Jacobs Engineering Vincent Lee, Principal, Arup Andrea Silverman, Associate Professor, New York University Tandon School of Engineering/FloodNet Sam Sklar, Senior Transportation Planner, Project Lead, Systematica Wendy Sperduto, NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection