Climate Change Summit 2024
The major climate trends and Challenges will continue to reshape society and we can only expect the impact to society to grow. For many within government, industry and academia, environmental, economic and health concerns are clearly at the top of the agenda, and the need to mitigate the impact of climate and Climate related disasters will bring profound Impacts this year and beyond. Often, we resort to technology and innovations to be the sol...
April 17, 2024
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ACT-IAC Location:
Reston, VA
HEC-RAS
This course provides an introduction of HEC-RAS with applications to dam safety. The course provides a hands-on opportunity to use the program and resolve specific questions. The objective of this course is to review the basic principles of open channel hydraulics as they relate to the natural stream environment with application to dam safety. Bridges, culverts, and in-line structures will be discussed and both steady and unsteady flow modelin...
Stability Analysis of Embankment Dams
This course provides broad coverage of stability analysis for embankment dams. Topics addressed in the course include soil stress-strain behavior, shear strength selection, field, and laboratory testing methods, slope stability analysis methods, slope stability analysis loading cases, seepage as related to stability analysis, and stability rehabilitation methods. The course includes several exercises to reinforce the information presented in l...
Prioritizing Mission Critical Climate R...
The federal government has been proactive in continuity of operations (COOP ) planning since at least the 1950s, when President Eisenhower issued executive orders directing various measures agencies should take to be prepared for a possible nuclear war. The need for COOP leads naturally to the question of resilience – how quickly agencies can recover from events beyond their control. Climate change is a slow-moving tsunami of many smalle...
November 9, 2023
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FedInsider Location:
Webcast
From Budapest to Washington: Examining...
The Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) at George Washington University and the Security and Sustainability Forum invites you to an extraordinary webinar shedding light on the paramount issue of threats to democracy in Europe and the United States. Join us as Zoltán Kész, a former member of the Hungarian parliament, a fervent advocate for democratic principles, and the Government Affairs Manager of the Consumer C...
Sustainable Facilities Forum
The Forum is designed for public and private sector professionals engaged in facility and sustainability projects. offering a chance to connect, share best practices and learn about new emerging technologies. Join us for a hybrid online and inperson event highlighting strategies, best practices and technologies behind successful public sector facility projects.The agenda for this year's event includes access to education sessions, live keynote...
3rd Annual Facilities & Campus Energy Summit
"Improving Energy Efficiencies and Environmental Sustainability in the Built Environment" The 3rd Annual Facilities & Campus Energy Summit is designed to provide an interchange of in depth knowledge and serve as a catalyst for collaboration across large built environments that do not necessarily engage one another on a daily basis but all share the common goals of: Improving strategic planning and technical operations to support decarboniz...
Applications for Digital Elevation Mode...
Digital elevation models (DEM) are used in a variety of applications including flood risk modeling, water resource management, topographical mapping, oil and gas, telecommunications, wind energy, forestry, and much more. View our on-demand webcast to learn about the technology used to create DEMs and what platforms incorporate these technologies. During this webinar, we will unveil the mystery around DEMs and how they are different from other...
Instrumentation in Dams – Selection and...
The safe operation of dams and appurtenant structures is paramount to the communities they serve. Instrumentation is an important tool of a comprehensive dam safety and performance monitoring program that can detect changes that might otherwise be missed by visual surveillance. The objectives of this course are to provide the participants with a general understanding of dam performance monitoring and its purpose; instrumentation and measuremen...
Improving the Dam Safety Design Review...
This webinar will include a discussion of common challenges with the design review process for dam safety projects and present strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process with a focus on early and regular engagement of the owner, regulator, and designer. Learning Objectives of This Webinar: Pitfalls to avoid during the design review process. Strategies to improve the efficiency of the design review process. Independen...
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