Authorized by ASCE to endorse the project: Dick Wright
ASCE Technical lead: Mike Celia
ASCE Staff Liason: Mike Charles
ASCE has participated in the development of the proposal of the Founder Societies to the United Engineering Foundation entitled Founder Societies Climate Change Grand Challenge Initiative, and supports the proposal. Civil engineers have key roles in improvements of infrastructure - buildings, communications, energy systems, transportation, water resources and waste treatment. These improvements will reduce detrimental emissions and other environmental impacts throughout the service lives of infrastructure systems, and provide infrastructure capable of high performance in response to climate change effects. Therefore, ASCE is looking forward to working with the other Founder Societies, and with other engineering and infrastructure community organizations, in the Founder Societies Climate Change Grand Challenge Initiative.