Join us for a comprehensive workshop featuring the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) which will educate builders on crucial resiliency strategies and offer tailored packages to enhance homeowner protection.
With the climate changes we are witnessing every day, this event is very relevant and delivers essential resilience information directly to builders and industry professionals, covering core topics such as urban/basement flood resilience, hail resilience, and high wind resilience for homes.
Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your expertise, network with industry leaders, and discover innovative solutions to safeguard homes in Ontario.
*VIRUTAL FORMAT* – Register to attend by Zoom.
Why Attend?
Key Takeaways
See firsthand the latest innovations in building resilience.
Director of Research, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Dan Sandink is Director of Research at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Since joining ICLR, Dan has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical reports and articles on topics related to protecting Canadians and their property from the impacts of extreme rainfall/urban flooding, high wind, wildland-urban interface fire, and hail.
Dan’s writing has also focused on public disaster risk perceptions, public adoption of household disaster risk reduction practices, the role of insurance in managing disasters, climate change adaptation and vulnerability assessment, building materials and products designed to mitigate disaster risk at the household level, among many other topics.
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario
Professor G.A. Kopp received a B.Sc.M.E. from the University of Manitoba in 1989, a M.Eng. from McMaster University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he held a NSERC Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. He returned to Canada in the summer of 1997 to an appointment of Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario and as a Senior Research Engineer at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory. He was promoted to Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in July 2007 (and has a cross-appointment in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering). In January 2015 he was appointed Associate Dean (Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies) in the Faculty of Engineering.
Dr. Kopp’s expertise and research projects relate to mitigating damage to structures during extreme wind storms such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Details include model-scale wind tunnel and full-scale component test methods, field surveys of damage caused by tornadoes, building aerodynamics, wind effects on building component and cladding systems, tornado and thunderstorm winds, wind loads on solar arrays, the role of turbulence on wind loads, wind-borne debris and turbulent shear flows.
Research Meteorologist, Northern Hail Project, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University
Simon Eng is the Research Meteorologist with Western University’s Northern Hail Project and has been with the project since it began in the spring of 2022. Simon has a combined background in atmospheric science and civil engineering and has spent his career studying the interactions between high-impact atmospheric hazards and the built environment. In his current role, he is focused on hail occurrence data collection, hail impacts investigations and meteorological analysis of major hail events.
Prior to this, he was a consultant in the climate change risk assessment and adaptation solutions development space, assessing climate and severe weather risks for municipalities and critical infrastructure across Canada
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