Breakout Session Key Concepts on Engineering Methods for Precipitation under a Changing Climate

The ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate (CACC) Subcommittee on Hydroclimatology and Engineering Adaptation organized the workshop on Engineering Methods for Precipitation under a Changing Climate. The CACC’s purpose is to identify and communicate the technical requirements and civil engineering challenges involved in adaptation to climate change. Results from the breakout sessions were intended to provide information to inform standard bodies that are intent on ensuring infrastructure remains functional and durable over its service life while adapting to and/or rapidly recovering from changing extremes of climate and weather, such as droughts, floods, and precipitation extremes, including those that accrue from ice and snow events. The results would apply to engineering practices and standards intended to provide acceptably low risk of failure regarding functionality, durability, and safety of infrastructure systems and facilities over their service life.