RES CONTINUING EDUCATION WEBINARS

Cost: $20 Members $30 Non-Members
 

Class 1: 
March 26, 2025 - 2:30PM | 1 PDH

Title: Resiliency Planning for Transportation Assets

Joseph M. Englot, PE, Associate Vice President, HNTB Corporation

Abstract: This presentation will define resiliency, discuss the DHS/NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide and discuss national and regional trends in hazard magnitudes due to climate change.

Biography - Joseph Englot received both his Bachelors of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1972. Mr. Englot joined HNTB in 2005 where he oversees projects that reduce the vulnerability of bridges, tunnels, and other types of transportation facilities.  Prior to joining HNTB, Mr. Englot spent 33 years with the Port Authority of NY & NJ, where he directed all structural design as Chief Structural Engineer for 10 years, followed by three years as Assistant Chief Engineer in charge of a multidiscipline design staff of over 350 Architects and Engineers. During that time, he played a key leadership role in the disaster recovery programs from the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, his agency’s headquarters.

Class 2: 
March 26, 2025 - 4:00PM | 1 PDH

Title:  Port Lands Flood Protection

Shannon Baker is Project Director, Parks and Public Realm for the Port Lands Flood Protection project at Waterfront Toronto

Abstract: Through the lens of the Port Lands project, this talk will focus on the leadership role that Waterfront Toronto has played in the delivery of large-scale revitalization projects, highlighting the major project elements related to sustainable placemaking that combine to make the Port Lands Flood Protection and Enabling Infrastructure Project one of the most significant changes to the Lake Ontario shoreline in decades, and one of largest infrastructure projects in Canada.

Biography - Shannon Baker is Project Director, Parks and Public Realm for the Port Lands Flood Protection project at Waterfront Toronto. She holds an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Guelph, and a masters degree in urban design studies from the University of Toronto. She is a full member with seal of the OALA, and a Registered Professional Planner with OPPI Her practice has involved concrete and speculative work and has always been situated at the intersection of landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Throughout her career, Shannon has led projects that explore the past and present of the landscape, examining cultural uses in relationship to ecological systems through the lenses of current design philosophy and emerging technologies.

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