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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) joined into a formal agreement to accelerate the development of climate-smart engineering codes and standards.

This cooperation between ASCE, the world’s largest civil engineering professional society and NOAA, the nation’s largest provider of climate information, seeks to help the nation account for extreme events in future infrastructure design and construction. The ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice (ASCE-NOAA Task Force) develops and coordinates activities as part of this engagement. 

Read the ASCE-NOAA Summer Workshop 2024 Report

ASCE-NOAA Summer 2025 Workshop

This session summarized the key points during the ASCE-NOAA Summer Workshop 2025. 
All of the recordings of the workshop are available at the ASCE-NOAA Workshop 2025 playlist.

Ongoing ASCE-NOAA Collaboration

ASCE-NOAA Task Force

This coordination body holds a meeting every other month to include relevant briefings from various Federal programs, key ASCE committees, and third parties that can provide information and resources to support the effort to improve climate resilience through climate informed civil engineering practice. While the participation in the ASCE-NOAA Task Force is by invitation, people can sign up for the bimonthly newsletter. The newsletter not only summarizes upcoming and past presentations but also has articles and news links for practicing engineers and other resilience practitioners.  Further people can view recorded presentations at the ASCE-NOAA Taskforce YouTube Channel. 

NOAA’s Industry Proving Ground

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Industry Proving Grounds (IPG) connects major U.S. industries with NOAA products, services, and actionable extreme weather and climate data to better assess risks and opportunities. The IPG initiative focuses on three major sectors: architecture and engineering, reinsurance and insurance, and retail. The IPG program is accelerating climate-smart infrastructure standards that increase resilience nationwide. Working with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), IPG provides data to help industry leaders account for climate factors in infrastructure design and construction, ensuring safety and productivity in harmony with environmental goals. This collaboration focuses on developing climate information products that offer foresight into future environmental conditions for resilient structures.

 

The vast majority of building codes in the United States and abroad rely on consensus guidance provided by ASCE. With climate change continuing to worsen, ASCE and NOAA have established a partnership to help the nation account for climate change in future infrastructure design and construction to accelerate the development of climate-smart engineering codes and standards. The University of Maryland (UMD) Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) guided the initial stages of this partnership.

ASCE Standards 7 and 24

A focus of this partnership is on prioritizing and producing data. ASCE Standards go through the most thorough vetting process of any ASCE publications and we strive to make them as useful and long-lasting for civil engineers, and those in similar professions, as possible.