Where
Online Zoom Webinar
Contact
Steve Sommerfeldt
ASCE Sustainability Committee
ssommerfeldt@inwoodinc.com
ASCE ECB Sustainability Committee
Webinar: Climate Change and Engineering Ethics
Opinions about climate change run the spectrum. For engineers - designers of the world’s infrastructure and many of the systems that humans have come to rely on - the issue has special meaning. We will explore the role of the engineer in making sense of the available, credible data about climate change, and seeing how this exploration might compel us to take our findings into account in our engineering practices.
This presentation presents eight questions, and explores what the answers might be:
Do we have an obligation, as engineers, to...
1. Protect the public?
2. Minimize the risks to the public which are imposed by our actions?
3. Understand the long-term consequences of our actions, especially as they affect others?
4. Use our critical reasoning skills to decide for ourselves if anthropogenic climate change is occurring?
5. Consider the professional opinion of climate scientists about the connections between our actions and climate change?
6. Take changing environmental conditions into account in our designs?
7. Use our skills as engineers to develop solutions to problems that affect society?
8. Critically consider as yet-unproven end-of-pipe solutions (a.k.a. geo-engineering) to climate change?
This presentation has been approved for 1 PDH!
Speaker Bio: Jim D'Aloisio is a Principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt, a structural engineering, landscape architecture, andbuilding envelope services firm in East Syracuse, NY. He has over 30 years’ experience as a consultingstructural engineer, responsible for the design and assessment of new buildings, additions, and structuralrenovations. Jim is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Registered Professional Engineer (NYand MA), Certified by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB), a LEED AccreditedProfessional (LEED AP), and an Urban Green Council-trained Crushing the Energy Code presenter. He is amember of the Order of the Engineer, through Syracuse University. He is a member of the ASCE StructuralEngineering Institute (SEI) Sustainability Committee and a member of ASCE’s Frost-Protected ShallowFoundation Committee. Climate Action Team. He is a former Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council'sNew York Upstate Chapter, and former USGBC national board member. He has written over 20 articles onthe relationship between building structures and sustainability and has presented over 100 times.
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