Climate Resiliency

60-Minute Education Session

SAT-B01 - Culture of Comfort: Strategies to Survive and Thrive in Extreme Heat

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Nate Cormier, ASLA, LEED AP

  Managing Studio Director, Landscape Architecture
  Rios Clementi Hale Studios

Speaker(s)

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  Jonathan Ogren

  Principal, Environmental Planner
  Siglo Group
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  Ashley Heeren, AIA, LEED AP

  Project Architect
  Lake|Flato Architects

Climate change is bringing extreme heat to our communities. This is a public health threat, especially for low-income and vulnerable populations. This panel will share heat mitigation strategies from diverse disciplines, bring ideas from other cultures, and apply these techniques for increasing outdoor thermal comfort in the built environment

Learning Objectives:

• Understand why extreme heat is the least visible, yet most dangerous, weather effect of climate change.
• Learn the importance of human thermal comfort to well-being and how it can be measured.
• Learn how cultures around the world have responded to extreme heat in the past and today.
• Observe heat mitigation strategies applied to contemporary case studies across the American South.