Professionals General body Meeting - February

NSBE STL in partnership with Missouri Gateway Green Building Council will be discussing Building Resilience: Collaborative Strategies for Flood Mitigation in Cahokia Heights & Brentwood. Attend in Person and online!

We are excited to partner for a discussion on regional flooding challenges, including stormwater and flash flooding, exploring how municipalities, communities, engineers and designers are addressing and preparing for local environmental impacts from climate change.

Between polar vortex winter storms paralyzing midwestern cities to four raging wildfires in Los Angeles wiping out entire neighborhoods, we are immersed in cataclysmic weather events that are more intense, frequent and damaging due to climate change. Like all intensifying weather and natural disaster events across the globe, the specific threats depend on location and context – and magnify the impact of existing risks in a particular place based on climate, topography, historic and current development trends, and more.

Here in the St. Louis metro…