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Robert Schmitz, Assoc. AIA, CMIT, LEED GA, GGPProject Manager with MBP2019 Project Management Symposium

CARBON NEUTRALITY, RESILIENCY, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Robert Schmitz,Assoc. AIA, CMIT, LEED GA, GGPProject Manager with MBP

Presentation:Carbon Neutrality, Resiliency,Program Management

Learning Objectives

1. Promote a learning and working environment that is environmentally and socially conscious.

Learning Objectives

2.Integrate sustainability into our operations, day-to-day practices, and into our built environment.

Learning Objectives

3. Resiliency is a Vital design criteria as communities face more frequent and intense natural hazards and threats from Mother Nature.

Learning Objectives

4. What are we to do when the next disaster hits and lessons learned on how to stand up a disaster recovery program.

Learning Objectives

Let’s Get To It

Mitigate

Promote a learning and working environment that is environmentally and socially conscious.

US Climate Action Plan

• On 25 June 2013, US President Barack Obama presented the US Climate Action Plan for steady, responsible national and international action to cut the GHG emissions that cause climate change and threaten public health. The plan has three pillars:

• cut carbon pollution in the United States;• prepare the United States for the impacts of

climate change;• lead international efforts to combat global

climate change and prepare for its impacts.

car·bon

• /ˈkärbən/• noun• noun: carbon; symbol: C1. the chemical element of atomic number 6, a nonmetal which has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and which also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal.2. carbon dioxide or other gaseous carbon compounds released into the atmosphere, associated with climate change.

Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Future ChoicesIntegrate sustainability into our operations, day-to-day practices, and into our built environment.

Monitoring Based Commissioning

Resiliency is a Vital design criteria as communities facemore frequent and intense natural hazards

and threats from Mother Nature.

Climate Resilience

re·sil·ience

/rəˈzilyəns/nounnoun: resilience; noun: resiliency; plural noun: resiliencies

1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

program·management

• /ˈkärbən/• noun• noun: carbon; symbol: C1. Program management includes management of projects which, together, improve the performance of the organization. A program's success will be measured in terms of benefits.

New Jersey’s Superstorm Sandy Recovery Program

• Sandy Facts & Info• 80 mph winds & storm

surges 20% higher• Damages

• Property $20 billion• Lost business• $20 billion

• Lowest barometric pressure recorded for an Atlantic storm

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• Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation

• 9,000 houses• 7,429 Grant Agreements Signed• 5,929 homes Rebuilt

• Execution: MAY 2013- 2017 • $150,000 cap per property

NJ RREM• GOSR utilizes approximately $4.4

billion from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program to concentrate aid to four main areas.

1. Small Business - MBP 2. Housing Recovery 3. Infrastructure 4. Community Reconstruction

NY GOSR

QuestionsThe End

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