Charleston Post Monthly Meeting November 2023
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
ECPI University
3800 Paramount Dr, North Charleston, SC 29405
Presenter(s): Chris Mack, Moffatt & Nichol
10:30am: Board Meeting
11:30am: Networking
12:00pm: Lunch & Presentation
TICKET PRICE:
SAME Members: $30
Non-SAME Members: $40
Government: $15
Registration includes 1 PDH.
Abstract:
This presentation focuses on resilience from a coastal engineering perspective and takes a brief walk through the planning, design, and engineering of nature-based, hybrid, and structural solutions to address many challenges facing coastal communities including flooding, erosion, and environmental degradation. Highlights of current body of knowledge from federal, state, and NGO sources will be cited as applied to representative projects such as beach nourishment, living shorelines, and storm surge barriers. For context, topics and questions that will be answered during the presentation include:
- Planning
– Triple Bottom Line – how does this approach guide designs (i.e., People [social], Planet [environment], & Prosperity [just economy])?
– Dynamic Adaptive Pathway Policy – How do we define and select the best course of action? How do we build adaptive capacity into a design? - Design
– Design Water Levels & Waves – What is the basis of design…Mean High Water + freeboard, 10-year return period, historic extreme, and/or sea level rise? What about design wave heights, wave runup and overtopping?
– Benefit-Cost Analysis – How to qualify and quantify benefits and costs? - Engineering
– Solutions Toolbox – What approach works best and why/why not (i.e., Natural, man-made, hybrids)?
Speaker Bios:
Chris has over 32 years of professional engineering, management, and leadership experience, including more than a decade with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and 19 years in the private sector. With this blend of experience, he offers clients a broad perspective of public and private sector expertise in hydrology, hydraulics, coastal engineering, resiliency, nature-based solutions, GIS, flood plain management, risk analysis, numerical modeling, software engineering, construction, design-bid-build, and program/project management. Chris has managed multiple coastal engineering departments and teams for several mid to large size firms plus several JV project teams for large-scale multistate projects.
Chris received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Water Resources Engineering) and Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Coastal Engineering) from North Carolina State University. He went on to earn a Master of Science in Computer Science from the College of Charleston and The Citadel, followed by Master of Business Administration from The Citadel.
He is a licensed professional engineer in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.
NO MEETING IN DECEMBER 2023. Stay tuned for more information on our January 2024 meeting!
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2023
Topic: Kicking off the Year with USACE Charleston
Speaker: Carole Works, USACE Charleston
Brief Abstract: TBA.