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November 3, 2022
Mathew Mampara and Antoinette Quagliata
Our country’s seven-year streak of at least ten or more $1 billion disasters has created human suffering and a costly toll on infrastructure that has been damaged or destroyed. As infrastructure owners at the local, state, and regional levels take stock and respond to this continuing threat, there…
October 26, 2022
Our firm created a debris modeling tool in Power BI using FEMA's debris formulas and damage assessment results. Users can dynamically adjust the variables to predict debris amounts. The results are aggregated and used to estimate necessary resources for debris removal and associated costs. These improved debris models can help communities recover faster by giving emergency managers information to make informed decisions faster.
October 20, 2022
An emerging trend among public- and private-sector organizations is to view and treat data as an asset. This trend is transforming the emergency management (EM) community—re-shaping how state and local agencies prepare for and respond to disasters. Data has always been critical to the effectiveness…
August 18, 2022
Antoinette Quagliata
Antoinette Quagliata sat down with Anthony Kane, president and CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) to discuss the Envision® rating system, to consider recent and emerging trends in Envision usage, and the future of this sustainability rating system.
July 1, 2022
Hackett bolsters firm’s coastal resilience expertise.
June 23, 2022
Over its nearly 40-year history, the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CoBRA) has been successful in achieving its goals of minimizing the loss of life; wasteful expenditure of federal revenues; and damage to fish, wildlife, and other natural resources associated with coastal barriers. CoBRA has long…
March 24, 2022
Alaurah Moss Jordan and Don Hammack
The term resilience is often associated with building infrastructure, storm protection, and community preparedness. However, it’s also applicable to transportation assets of various kinds, including highways, bridges, and interchanges; aviation facilities; freight rail, passenger rail, and mass…
March 17, 2022
Our team is expanding our geospatial damage assessment capabilities with a machine learning (ML) model to automatically detect a variety of objects in RGB imagery. Throughout our four-decade partnership with FEMA performing geospatial damage assessments, we’ve learned that by identifying downed…
February 24, 2022
Jon Stewart
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of ‘emergency’ is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.”
February 1, 2022
Firm supported FEMA’s Response Geospatial Office following natural disasters across Midwest and Colorado.
January 24, 2022
Dewberry senior vice president, infrastructure leader, and resilience expert to serve on committee dedicated to advancing New York City’s infrastructure, climate, and sustainability initiatives.
January 21, 2022
Dewberry led the development of master plan aimed at mitigating impacts of climate change.
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