Chair : Paul McConnell, TAC President, Deputy Minister, Yukon Highways and Public Works

Around the world, the transportation sector faces serious challenges to ensure infrastructure is resilient to the impacts of climate change, including unpredictable weather and storm events. In Canada, recognizing that resilient infrastructure is critical to our current and future way of life, a variety of organizations are working on adaptation initiatives. This session will share research and experience as we all strive to ensure transportation networks continue to provide the level of service that global economies and communities require every day.
Canada’s National Research Council’s ground-breaking work to integrate climate resilience into building and infrastructure design, guides, and codes will be presented. This initiative is driving innovation and providing science-based knowledge and tools to make sound decisions about how to design, operate, and maintain infrastructure assets.
The Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) Protocol will be showcased. The Protocol establishes the adaptive capacity of infrastructure to support informed engineering judgments on components that require adaptation and how to adapt them.
Speakers will also bring local perspectives to the topic and describe work being done in Quebec and the Yukon to adapt infrastructure to the impacts of climate change.