ICLR Friday Forum: Driving resilience forward with research (April 16, 2021)
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On April 16, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Narrow the Path of Damage: Driving resilience forward with research', led by Anne Cope, PhD, Chief Engineer at the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety. Severe weather disrupts lives, displaces families and drives financial loss. Anne Cope, PhD, Chief Engineer at IBHS, discussed the Institute’s latest research investigating wind, wind-driven rain, hail, and wildfire. From how wildfires burn to how hail damages a roof, top-tier science delivers actionable insights for the insurance industry and homeowners. Anne will demonstrate how IBHS is working to motivate resilience through research to drive down losses and support thriving communities. Anne D. Cope, PhD, P.E., Chief Engineer: Dr. Anne Cope joined IBHS in 2009 just a few months before the groundbreaking for the construction of the IBHS Research Center in Richburg, South Carolina. As the Chief Engineer, she leads the development of research programs to improve the performance of structures in hurricanes, wildfires, severe thunderstorms, and hailstorms as well as the team of engineers, scientists, and skilled craftsman who conduct research on full-scale homes and commercial buildings. She is responsible for the team’s implementation of research findings into building codes and standards. Prior to joining IBHS, Dr. Cope was a project manager and structural engineer with Reynolds, Smith & Hills, Inc., designing projects for NASA, Department of Defense, and commercial launch operations. Dr. Cope’s research encompasses topics ranging from the full-scale simulation of wind effects on buildings to detailed studies of the vulnerabilities of buildings to natural hazards and the development of damage prediction models. She is also a proud veteran of the United States Army. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Clemson University, and her doctorate from the University of Florida. She is a registered professional engineer in Florida and South Carolina.
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Susan Ancel is the Director of One Water Planning for EPCOR Water Services in Edmonton, Alberta. In her prior role, she was Director of Stormwater Strategies, where she was responsible for developing an Integrated Resource Plan for flood mitigation that considered capital and operational risk mitigation planning, as well as the interrelationships between utilities, insurance, disaster response agencies and the public. Prior to her Stormwater Strategies role she was the Director of Water Distribution and Transmission for EPCOR. Susan is a Mechanical engineer with over 30 years’ experience with the municipal utility sector. She has also served on numerous industry committees including the Board of Directors for the Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) from 2001 to 2007 and was President of GITA in 2006. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Canadian Water Network.
ICLR Friday Forum: Floodplain mapping over Canada: performance at inundation...
ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar on June 18, 2021 titled 'Floodplain mapping over Canada: Investigating performance at inundation level and understanding dynamics of population flood exposure', led by Dr. Slobodan Simonovic, Director of Engineering Studies, ICLR/Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University.
Surface runoff estimates from atmospheric re-analysis datasets are increasingly preferred by hydrologists for modelling floods in regions where traditional observations are not sufficiently available. This presentation explores the fidelity of four widely used re-analyses runoff products as hydraulic forcings to a flood inundation model in describing inundation dynamics over Canada. The re-analysis obtained runoff is used with the Catchment-based Macroscale Floodplain (CaMa-Flood) global hydrodynamic model, to derive high-resolution floodplain maps for 100 and 200-yr return periods. The floodplain maps derived from each reanalysis dataset are compared with the regional developed or ‘benchmark floodplain maps’ over six selected flood-prone basins (test basins) in Canada through a set of performance statistics. Using the superior reanalysis runoff dataset, a few historic flood events over the test basins are simulated and subsequently compared with MODIS satellite-derived floodplain information. We notice that more than 75% of the inundation is precisely captured for these events.
The second part of the presentation will focus on the use of four global population datasets (together with census data from Statistics Canada as the reference), their performances and skill in flood exposure assessment across Canada. The flood exposure is quantified based on a set of floodplain maps for Canada derived from the CaMa-Flood global flood model. To obtain further insights at the regional level, the methodology is implemented over six flood-prone River Basins in Canada. We find that about 9% (3.31 million) and 11% (3.90 million) of the Canadian population resides within 1 in 100-yr and 1 in 200-yr floodplains.
This work (i) strongly supports the need for careful selection of a re-analysis dataset while performing inundation modelling for large regions: and (ii) also highlights the need for careful selection of population datasets for preventing further amplification of uncertainties in flood risk. The results derived from this study may be useful for flood risk management and contribute to understanding other disaster impacts on human-environment interrelationships.
ICLR Friday Forum: Climate Disclosure, Litigation & Finance (May 21, 2021)
On May 21, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Climate Disclosure, Litigation and Finance'"Climate Disclosure, Litigation and Finance' is a forthcoming chapter in 'Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues'. In this webinar, chapter authors Paul Kovacs, Gordon McBean, Gordon Beal, Maryam Golnaraghi, Pat Koval and Bohan Li examined the evolving climate risks for businesses and governments.
Climate change is now widely regarded as an environmental and an economic issue. While the policy discussion about climate change emphasizes the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to better cope with the impact of extreme events, the business community is increasingly focused on the physical and transition risks and opportunities presented by climate change. The research team will discuss how managing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change affect a company’s ability to access capital, deliver products and services, hire and retain employees and achieve positive financial performance.
Paul Kovacs is the Executive Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
Professor Emeritus Gordon McBean is with the ICLR and Department of Geography and Environment, Western University and the past President of the International Council for Science and former ADM of the atmospheric component of Environment Canada.
Gordon Beal, CPA, CA, M.Ed., is the Vice President of Research Guidance and Support for Chartered Professional Accountants Canada and a member of Canada’s National Climate Change Adaptation Platform Plenary.
Dr. Maryam Golnaraghi is the Director of Climate Change and Environment at The Geneva Association, a platform of Group CEOs of largest insurance companies, a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and serves on a number of boards and advisory councils in the US, Canada and the UK.
Patricia Koval, JD, is a Board Director of a number of companies in the United States and Canada, a former partner of a major Canadian law firm, and a member of the Ontario Advisory Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Bohan Li is a research associate at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
ICLR wildfire season forecast 2021 (May 20, 2021)
This is a forecast of the 2021 wildfire season led by Richard Carr from the Canadian Forest Service. The webinar summarizes the current conditions in Canada and provided a forecast for the 2021 wildfire season.
ICLR Friday Forum: Tantramar Marshes Flooding (March 19, 2021)
On Friday, March 19, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Solutions for Tantramar marshes flooding', led by Dr. Jeff 0llerhead, Professor, Geography and Environment Department, Mount Allison University.
Most former salt marshes in the Tantramar region of Atlantic Canada are now protected by dykes and are used primarily for agriculture. This has been true for decades to centuries and, as such, their elevation can be as much as 2 m below that of undyked salt marshes in the region. The key environmental drivers shaping the marshes are changing over time with climate change. The rate of relative sea level (RSL) rise is accelerating and there is some evidence that storms are becoming more frequent and sea ice is diminishing. The risk of a catastrophic dyke failure and associated flooding increases each year. Risk from inland flooding is also increasing.
Possible solutions include a combination of: (i) raise and reenforce the dyke system, (ii) realign existing dykes and restore salt marshes to provide natural protection, and (iii) remove existing dykes and allow the system to return to a natural state. The highest priority for managing our salt marshes should be to provide them with sufficient accommodation space into which they can transgress naturally.
Jeff 0llerhead is a member of the Geography and Environment Department at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. He is a coastal geomorphologist who studies beaches and salt marshes. In recent years, he has been particularly involved in designing and monitoring salt marsh restorations in the upper Bay of Fundy.
ICLR Friday Forum: Canmore: Working toward a FireSmart community (Feb 26, 2021)
On February 26, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar title 'Town of Canmore: Working Towards a FireSmart Community, led by Kerri Martens, Deputy Chief of Canmore Fire Rescue and Stew Wilkenshaw, owner/operator of Montane Forest Management.
The Town of Canmore is located in southwestern Alberta between Calgary and Banff. The Bow Valley had a rich wildfire history and has evolved from centuries of wildfire. Wildfire exclusion for the past 80+ years and development in the Town of Canmore has resulted in a wildland/urban interface fire threat that requires attention.
Stew Walkinshaw and Keri Martens discussed the wildland/urban interface threat within and surrounding the Bow Valley and the steps that have been taken over the past 20+ years to reduce the threat.
Keri Martens
Keri Martens, MA, is the Deputy Fire Chief of Canmore Fire Rescue. She has been involved in the fire service for over 20 years, originally starting her career as a paid responder and then taking on the position of Fire Chief for the Lake Louise Fire Department in Alberta. Keri took on the role of Deputy Chief with Canmore Fire Rescue in 2018 where her responsibilities include overseeing the Town’s FireSmart program including the implementation of the Home Assessment program along with yearly FireSmart Forums for community residents.
Chief Martens sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and chairs the CAFC’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She holds a Masters degree in Disaster and Emergency Management and is a member of Canada Task Force 2. Keri is married with 2 children and enjoys all the recreational perks of living in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Stew Walkinshaw
Stew Wilkenshaw is owner/operator of Montane Forest Management, based out of Canmore, and provides FireSmart specialist services to the Town of Canmore. He has specialized in FireSmart community planning and wildland/urban interface fire operations in western Canada since 1993.
ICLR Friday Forum: What's that sound?: Residents' reaction during a tsunami e...
On January 15, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'What's that sound?: How Residents Responded During a Tsunami Evacuation on Vancouver Island and How Similar Evacuations Might be Improved", led by Ryan P. Reynolds, MGIS, PhD, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of B.C.
It’s 3am on an early Tuesday morning, and you wake to the sound of a warning siren. You realize it’s your community’s tsunami warning system, and listen as it broadcasts instructions to evacuate the tsunami inundation zone and seek shelter on higher ground. You aren’t sure if you live in the inundation zone or not. What do you do? Dr. Reynolds conducted parallel door-to-door and online surveys to better understand how Port Alberni residents responded to this exact scenario on an early January morning in 2018. He wanted to learn how and when residents learned about the tsunami warning, what actions they took to respond, and where evacuees sought safety. We also wanted to explore residents’ views on how the evacuation was conducted by emergency officials and how the event may have changed their perceptions of tsunami risk in the community. In this webinar, findings were discussed from over 450 public surveys and interviews with 11 community and regional emergency officials in the Alberni Valley and highlight some best practices to improve future evacuations.
ICLR Friday Forum: Safety + serviceability of mass timber buildings for wind ...
On December 11, 2020 ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Ensuring safety and serviceability of tall mass timber buildings for wind', led by Dr. Girma Bitsuamlak of Western University.
The past two decades have seen the continuing global recognition of tall-wood buildings as a sustainable alternative to address urban densification and sprawl issues. Recent design strategies are using wood as the primary construction material for tall buildings. Alan Davenport’s wind-load-chain indicates that the wind response of structures is governed by their aerodynamic features (shape), wind speed and direction (micro-climate), and dynamic properties (weight, stiffness, and damping). The use of wood panels to construct the lateral and gravity systems of the tall-wood building makes them lightweight and less stiff than buildings made from conventional construction materials. Frequent exposure to wind-induced oscillations can cause discomfort to occupants and deflection related serviceability problems.
A coordinated wind research program was launched in January 2016 between FPInnovations, The University of British Columbia, and Western University. The research program includes aerodynamic and aeroelastic investigations of dozens of tall-wood building case studies in the boundary layer wind tunnel laboratory. It also includes a tornadic wind load study at the WindEEE dome. This talk summarized the main findings of the research program. For all case studies, safety and serviceability criteria were satisfied. However, for heights exceeding ninety meters, either aerodynamic optimization, or supplemental damping, or “wind bracing” through different hybridization techniques is required to satisfy the serviceability criteria of the 2015 National Building Code of Canada.
Girma T. Bitsuamlak, PhD, PEng, F CSCE
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Research Director at Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Lab. (BLWTL) and WindEEE Research Institute, Site leader at SHARCNET, Western University.
ICLR Friday Forum: Reducing the risk of fire following earthquake in B.C. (No...
On November 13, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Reducing the risk of fire following earthquake in the Lower Mainland, B.C.' led by Dr. Charles Scawthorn.
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia has significant risk due to earthquakes and the fires that follow them. Modeling was performed that accounted for fire department response, water system damage, weather and other conditions and the growth and ultimate final burnt area of fires. The resulting losses are estimated to be from nil to about C$10 billion. These are median estimates – there are significant probabilities of greater or less damage and the range is a function of the specific earthquake scenario (i.e., location and magnitude), time of day, weather and other factors. This loss would be almost entirely insured and would have a very significant impact on the Canadian insurance industry. Fire losses would come on top of shaking and other losses which would be insured to a lesser extent. A leading global reinsurer has stated that losses of this magnitude would likely result in failure of some insurers, would entail secondary and contingent losses, and could conceivably lead to financial contagion.
This risk need not be tolerated and indeed the Province of British Columbia, City of Vancouver, and regional agencies such as Metro Vancouver and BC Hydro have implemented excellent programs to reduce this risk. Further actions however can still be taken to reduce the risk of fire damage and include creation of a regional portable water supply system, providing secondary water supplies for high-rise buildings, and improvements in the region’s energy infrastructure. In this respect two actions have been de rigueur in other regions, and should be considered in the Lower Mainland: (a) a review of the overall seismic vulnerability and reliability of major energy facilities; (b) review of the gas distribution operator’s ability to control and isolate its transmission and distribution networks in the event of a major earthquake, and consideration by the operator of incorporating an automatic gas shutoff device in gas meters.
This webinar presented the modeling and results, and discussed opportunities for mitigation.
Charles Scawthorn (cscawthorn@sparisk.com ) is Principal of SPA Risk LLC and is internationally recognized as an authority for the analysis and mitigation of natural and technological hazards. He retired in 2008 as Professor and head of the Earthquake Disaster Prevention Systems Laboratory, Kyoto University (Japan), has been Visiting Professor at Stanford, Beijing Normal and Waseda (Tokyo) Universities and is now Visiting Researcher, Univ. California at Berkeley. He consults with the global insurance industry, the World Bank, local/state/federal agencies and Global 1000 corporations.
ICLR Friday Forum: Reducing the Risk of Flooding by Implementing Better Pract...
On October 9, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Reducing the Risk of Flooding by Implementing Better Practices for Sewer Construction', led by Barbara Robinson, Principal of Norton Engineering.
The conceptualization, design, construction, inspection, testing and acceptance of sanitary sewers has not changed very much in the past few decades. Civil Engineering is a very conservative field, and changes are slow to be accepted. Recent research has indicated that current design and construction practices for sanitary sewers are inadequate in reducing the risk that clean water (called Inflow and Infiltration, or I/I) enters sanitary sewers. Findings indicate that sewers are leaking unacceptably (e.g. allowing much more I/I that is permitted) when they are newly constructed, resulting in increased sewer backup flood risk in the immediate area and also downstream. Indeed, instances of basement flooding in new subdivisions are unacceptably common today.
This research (partially funded by the ICLR and Standards Council of Canada) has resulted in the publication of Best Practices Manuals to assist all stakeholders in building better sewers. These practices are being closely followed and implemented across Canada. For example, the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (the regulator that approves new sewers in Ontario) has incorporated many of these best practices in their Draft Sanitary Sewer Design Standards. The Standards Council of Canada is currently in the process of tendering the preparation of new national guidelines for new sewer system construction, based on this research. A second guideline is being prepared to share best practices in reducing excess water in existing sewer systems, with similar goals.
This presentation presented the problem, and summarized the massive costs associated with this excess I/I - costs that have not traditionally been considered in Engineering studies. In addition, the increased risks to municipalities that do not address this excess I/I was demonstrated.
Barbara Robinson, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., has been working in (literally) sanitary sewers for 30 years. As the president of Norton Engineering (est. 2015), she works across Canada assisting municipalities, provincial and federal government agencies in establishing and implementing provincial and national best practices in sanitary sewer construction, monitoring and repair. She also works as the CBC Radio 1 Infrastructure Columnist and with other media organizations.
Friday Forum: Updating Canada’s Fire Danger Rating System (August 7, 2020)
On August 7, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Updating Canada's fire danger rating system, led by Dr. Mike Wotton of the Canadian Forest Service. The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) as it exists today has evolved over more than eight decades, driven by ongoing research and also by the decision support needs of wildfire management operations in Canada. The development of the next significant step in the evolution of the CFFDRS (which we refer to as the Next Generation CFFDRS research program) is currently underway. The goal of these modifications is to allow greater flexibility and consistency in predicting fire ignition and spread across a broad range of fuel complexes. The underlying approach however will still remain rooted in the philosophy of using field-based observations calibrate simple physics-based models of the key processes that influence fire environment and hence fire behaviour.
This presentation summarized the methods used for assessing and communicating wildfire potential across the Canadian landscape. It described some of the modifications being proposed to develop the next generation of the CFFDRS and what these changes will mean to both casual and expert users of the system.
This presentation, by Mike Wotton of the Canadian Forest Service, made linkages between the most publicly well-known output of the CFFDRS --the roadside fire danger sign -- and the elements of system that operational fire managers use to inform their daily response and operational planning.
Friday Forum: Impact resilient roofing (July 10, 2020)
On July 10, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Impact resilient roofing', lead by Vince Carrier and Mark Okland of IKO. Insurance companies across North America are experiencing rising claims from hail, severe wind and other climate risks. In many events, the most extensive losses involve damage to the roof, losses that can be prevented. IKO203 FORTIFIED Asphalt Shingle Roofs is an American Institute of Architects course that sets out actions required to install a damage resistant asphalt roof consistent with the FORTIFIED program.
This presentation explored why the program was created by the insurance industry in the United States through the Institute for Business and Home Safety. The presentation also explained how these measures provide protection from damage beyond that required in the building code, including a review of climate related resilient roofing products, testing results and the benefits of performance enhanced products.
The presentation by Mark Okland and Vince Carrier from Canada’s leading producer of asphalt shingles, IKO, was of particular interest to those presently responding to the damage resulting from the June 13 Calgary hail storm and will set out the value of an impact resilient roof.
ICLR Friday Forum: Anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm (June 26, 2020)
On June 26, 2020, ICLR conducted a special webinar on the June 13, 2020 Southern Alberta storm. On the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020, large swaths of southern Alberta, including portions of Calgary, where hit with high winds, torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hail. ICLR estimates that the hailstorm could very well be the costliest hail event in Canadian insurance history, surpassing the $580 million in insured damage caused by the August 7, 2014 hailstorm in Airdrie, Alberta. In this session, presenters discussed the meteorology of the event (what happened, when, why and how); the damage, as experienced by insurance adjusters responding to storm claims, and the impacts of hail on structures, including a look at building material performance, damage thresholds and damage mitigation.
Presentations include:
The anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm
Dr. Julian Brimelow, Physical Sciences Specialist, Applied Environmental Prediction Science, Prairie & Northern Region, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Boots on the ground: The adjusters’ view
Glenn Smith, Head of Global Catastrophe Logistics, CRU Group.
Calgary Hailstorm: Exposing our vulnerability to hail & where do we go from here?
Dr. Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist and Senior Director for Product Design, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
ICLR Friday Forum: Calgary hail damage (June 26, 2020)
On June 26, 2020, ICLR conducted a special webinar on the June 13, 2020 Southern Alberta storm. On the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020, large swaths of southern Alberta, including portions of Calgary, where hit with high winds, torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hail. ICLR estimates that the hailstorm could very well be the costliest hail event in Canadian insurance history, surpassing the $580 million in insured damage caused by the August 7, 2014 hailstorm in Airdrie, Alberta. In this session, presenters discussed the meteorology of the event (what happened, when, why and how); the damage, as experienced by insurance adjusters responding to storm claims, and the impacts of hail on structures, including a look at building material performance, damage thresholds and damage mitigation.
Presentations include:
The anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm
Dr. Julian Brimelow, Physical Sciences Specialist, Applied Environmental Prediction Science, Prairie & Northern Region, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Boots on the ground: The adjusters’ view
Glenn Smith, Head of Global Catastrophe Logistics, CRU Group
Calgary Hailstorm: Exposing our vulnerability to hail & where do we go from here?
Dr. Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist and Senior Director for Product Design, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
ICLR Friday Forum: Exposing our vulnerability to hail (June 26, 2020)
On June 26, 2020, ICLR conducted a special webinar on the June 13, 2020 Southern Alberta storm. On the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020, large swaths of southern Alberta, including portions of Calgary, where hit with high winds, torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hail. ICLR estimates that the hailstorm could very well be the costliest hail event in Canadian insurance history, surpassing the $580 million in insured damage caused by the August 7, 2014 hailstorm in Airdrie, Alberta. In this session, presenters discussed the meteorology of the event (what happened, when, why and how); the damage, as experienced by insurance adjusters responding to storm claims, and the impacts of hail on structures, including a look at building material performance, damage thresholds and damage mitigation.
Presentations include:
The anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm
Dr. Julian Brimelow, Physical Sciences Specialist, Applied Environmental Prediction Science, Prairie & Northern Region, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Boots on the ground: The adjusters’ view
Glenn Smith, Head of Global Catastrophe Logistics, CRU Group
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Calgary Hailstorm: Exposing our vulnerability to hail & where do we go from here?
Dr. Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist and Senior Director for Product Design, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
ICLR Friday Forum: Building Codes Prevent Wind Damage (June 12, 2020)
On June 12, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar led by Dr. Kevin Simmons, Austin College, titled 'Building Codes Prevent Wind Damage'. Engineers have designed structures that limit damage from some of nature’s most powerful wind storms. But before those innovations can do their job they must be incorporated into common construction practice either through inclusion in building codes or through increased demand by homebuyers. The cost of homeownership includes more than the purchase price. But because codes aim to minimize first costs, new design tends to be economically inefficient. It’s here that economists can demonstrate resilient construction is cost effective with a positive return on investment in areas where damaging wind storms are common. Analysis from Florida after Hurricane Andrew and from Moore Oklahoma after it changed its wind ordinance demonstrates that resilience is worthwhile, showing benefit-cost ratios for better design on the order of 4:1 and higher with no effect on affordability or market activity.
Dr. Kevin Simmons is known internationally for his work on the economics of natural hazards. His research has been highlighted and he has been interviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, Weather Channel, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, Christian Science Monitor and USA Today among others. He has published more than 100 articles and co-authored 2 books with Dan Sutter, Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes and Deadly Season: Analyzing the 2011 Tornado Outbreaks. Dr. Simmons served as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway in 2010 and again to Canada in 2014 as well as a Visiting Scholar with NOAA in 2017. Currently, he is a Professor of Economics at Austin College where he holds the endowed Clara R. and Leo F. Corrigan Chair of Economics.
ICLR Friday Forum: Living with fire in Canada's forests (May 15, 2020)
The prevalence of wildfire disasters across Canada over the past two decades such as occurred in Kelowna, BC in 2003 and Fort McMurray, AB in 2016 has prompted a continuing search for solutions to address the wildland-urban interface or intermix (WUI) problem in the country. While it is theoretically possible to exclude human-caused wildfire occurrences, the complete exclusion of unwanted fires is not likely given even the most highly sophisticated fire prevention, detection and suppression programs. Professor Dougal Drysdale (2011) – Introduction to Fire Dynamics has stated that "Further major advances in combating wildfire are unlikely to be achieved simply by continued application of traditional methods. What is required is a more fundamental approach which can be applied at the design stage ... Such an approach requires a detailed understanding of fire behaviour." The concept of forest conflagration control through managing vegetation or fuels is discussed on the basis that the elimination of ignition risk in the WUI is not foreseen as feasible and that addressing the “fuel” component of the fire environment offers the only viable course of action possible given that neither weather or topography can be modified. The aim of fuels management is to reduce a fire’s intensity and spread rate so that containment by conventional suppression forces can be effective. In this regard, the creation of “aspen fuel breaks” offers one of the best chances for success.
Dr. Marty Alexander is a registered professional forester who began his wildland fire career in 1972 as a hotshot crew member. He retired from full-time work in late 2010 as a senior fire behaviour research officer after nearly 35 years with the Canadian Forest Service. His primary research and technology transfer interests have principally focused on the practical application of empirical fire behaviour knowledge to community protection and firefighter safety concerns. Marty has continued this line of emphasis in semi-retirement.
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Part 2: National WUI Guide Impact Analysis
With NRC support, ICLR collaborated with SPA Risk LLC and several stakeholders to examine the impacts of following NRC’s WUI Fire Guide. Following the Guide for new construction can produce benefits that exceed the approximately $5/square-foot costs by 32:1, and more when one can rely on vegetation management. Retrofitting existing buildings, with somewhat higher costs, can save up to 14:1 in high-hazard locations. Application of the WUI Guide across Canada would add $125 billion to construction and retrofit costs over 10 years but avoid $500 billion in future losses, create 20,000 jobs, save 2,300 lives, avoid 17,000 nonfatal injuries, and protect $1 billion in tax revenues. The impact analysis suggests that the guide makes good financial sense for Canada.
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On July 28, 2021 ICLR conducted a special webinar titled 'Observations from the July 15, 2021 Barrie Tornado' led by Greg Kopp of Western University Engineering, ImpactWX Chair in Severe Storms Engineering, and Project Leader of the Northern Tornadoes Project.
In this session, Dr. Greg Kopp reviewed findings he and his team documented while conducting an investigation of the aftermath of the July 15 tornado in Barrie, Ontario. The EF2-rated storm damaged approximately 150 homes, with 71 deemed by the City as “too dangerous to enter.” Dr. Kopp and his team arrived in Barrie within hours of the storm.
Dr. Greg Kopp is the ImpactWX Chair in Severe Storms Engineering and a professor in Western University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He 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. His expertise and research relate to mitigating damage to structures during extreme wind storms such as tornadoes and hurricanes. He works actively to implement research findings into practice, currently serving as Chair of the ASCE 49 Standards Committee on Wind Tunnel Testing For Buildings and other Structures, and as a member of various other Building Code committees. A former Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering, he is also the lead researcher for the Three Little Pigs Project at The Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes.
ICLR Friday Forum: Edmonton's approach to stormwater flood mgmt (July 16, 2021)
On July 16, 2021 ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Edmonton's approach to stormwater flood management', led by Susan Ancel, Director of One Water Planning for EPCOR Water Services in Edmonton, Alberta. EPCOR has developed a $1.6 billion Stormwater Integrated Resource Plan (SIRP) to mitigate the impacts of flooding in the community. SIRP envisions all stakeholders – citizens, businesses, industry, the City of Edmonton and EPCOR working together to build a flood-resilient future. The goal is to Slow, Move, Secure, Predict and Respond to flooding events to prevent or reduce the impact. EPCOR’s planned flood mitigations projects will take 20 years to complete. The types of projects that are included in SIRP include dry ponds, low impact development, tunnels, combined sewer separation, outfall control gates, inflow/infiltration reduction, building flood proofing, increased sensors and automatic controls and emergency response equipment. The plan was developed through consultation with Climate Change Adaptation, Insurance and Financial sector groups across North America.
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ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar on June 18, 2021 titled 'Floodplain mapping over Canada: Investigating performance at inundation level and understanding dynamics of population flood exposure', led by Dr. Slobodan Simonovic, Director of Engineering Studies, ICLR/Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University.
Surface runoff estimates from atmospheric re-analysis datasets are increasingly preferred by hydrologists for modelling floods in regions where traditional observations are not sufficiently available. This presentation explores the fidelity of four widely used re-analyses runoff products as hydraulic forcings to a flood inundation model in describing inundation dynamics over Canada. The re-analysis obtained runoff is used with the Catchment-based Macroscale Floodplain (CaMa-Flood) global hydrodynamic model, to derive high-resolution floodplain maps for 100 and 200-yr return periods. The floodplain maps derived from each reanalysis dataset are compared with the regional developed or ‘benchmark floodplain maps’ over six selected flood-prone basins (test basins) in Canada through a set of performance statistics. Using the superior reanalysis runoff dataset, a few historic flood events over the test basins are simulated and subsequently compared with MODIS satellite-derived floodplain information. We notice that more than 75% of the inundation is precisely captured for these events.
The second part of the presentation will focus on the use of four global population datasets (together with census data from Statistics Canada as the reference), their performances and skill in flood exposure assessment across Canada. The flood exposure is quantified based on a set of floodplain maps for Canada derived from the CaMa-Flood global flood model. To obtain further insights at the regional level, the methodology is implemented over six flood-prone River Basins in Canada. We find that about 9% (3.31 million) and 11% (3.90 million) of the Canadian population resides within 1 in 100-yr and 1 in 200-yr floodplains.
This work (i) strongly supports the need for careful selection of a re-analysis dataset while performing inundation modelling for large regions: and (ii) also highlights the need for careful selection of population datasets for preventing further amplification of uncertainties in flood risk. The results derived from this study may be useful for flood risk management and contribute to understanding other disaster impacts on human-environment interrelationships.
ICLR Friday Forum: Climate Disclosure, Litigation & Finance (May 21, 2021)
On May 21, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Climate Disclosure, Litigation and Finance'"Climate Disclosure, Litigation and Finance' is a forthcoming chapter in 'Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues'. In this webinar, chapter authors Paul Kovacs, Gordon McBean, Gordon Beal, Maryam Golnaraghi, Pat Koval and Bohan Li examined the evolving climate risks for businesses and governments.
Climate change is now widely regarded as an environmental and an economic issue. While the policy discussion about climate change emphasizes the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to better cope with the impact of extreme events, the business community is increasingly focused on the physical and transition risks and opportunities presented by climate change. The research team will discuss how managing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change affect a company’s ability to access capital, deliver products and services, hire and retain employees and achieve positive financial performance.
Paul Kovacs is the Executive Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
Professor Emeritus Gordon McBean is with the ICLR and Department of Geography and Environment, Western University and the past President of the International Council for Science and former ADM of the atmospheric component of Environment Canada.
Gordon Beal, CPA, CA, M.Ed., is the Vice President of Research Guidance and Support for Chartered Professional Accountants Canada and a member of Canada’s National Climate Change Adaptation Platform Plenary.
Dr. Maryam Golnaraghi is the Director of Climate Change and Environment at The Geneva Association, a platform of Group CEOs of largest insurance companies, a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and serves on a number of boards and advisory councils in the US, Canada and the UK.
Patricia Koval, JD, is a Board Director of a number of companies in the United States and Canada, a former partner of a major Canadian law firm, and a member of the Ontario Advisory Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Bohan Li is a research associate at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
ICLR wildfire season forecast 2021 (May 20, 2021)
This is a forecast of the 2021 wildfire season led by Richard Carr from the Canadian Forest Service. The webinar summarizes the current conditions in Canada and provided a forecast for the 2021 wildfire season.
ICLR Friday Forum: Tantramar Marshes Flooding (March 19, 2021)
On Friday, March 19, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Solutions for Tantramar marshes flooding', led by Dr. Jeff 0llerhead, Professor, Geography and Environment Department, Mount Allison University.
Most former salt marshes in the Tantramar region of Atlantic Canada are now protected by dykes and are used primarily for agriculture. This has been true for decades to centuries and, as such, their elevation can be as much as 2 m below that of undyked salt marshes in the region. The key environmental drivers shaping the marshes are changing over time with climate change. The rate of relative sea level (RSL) rise is accelerating and there is some evidence that storms are becoming more frequent and sea ice is diminishing. The risk of a catastrophic dyke failure and associated flooding increases each year. Risk from inland flooding is also increasing.
Possible solutions include a combination of: (i) raise and reenforce the dyke system, (ii) realign existing dykes and restore salt marshes to provide natural protection, and (iii) remove existing dykes and allow the system to return to a natural state. The highest priority for managing our salt marshes should be to provide them with sufficient accommodation space into which they can transgress naturally.
Jeff 0llerhead is a member of the Geography and Environment Department at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. He is a coastal geomorphologist who studies beaches and salt marshes. In recent years, he has been particularly involved in designing and monitoring salt marsh restorations in the upper Bay of Fundy.
ICLR Friday Forum: Canmore: Working toward a FireSmart community (Feb 26, 2021)
On February 26, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar title 'Town of Canmore: Working Towards a FireSmart Community, led by Kerri Martens, Deputy Chief of Canmore Fire Rescue and Stew Wilkenshaw, owner/operator of Montane Forest Management.
The Town of Canmore is located in southwestern Alberta between Calgary and Banff. The Bow Valley had a rich wildfire history and has evolved from centuries of wildfire. Wildfire exclusion for the past 80+ years and development in the Town of Canmore has resulted in a wildland/urban interface fire threat that requires attention.
Stew Walkinshaw and Keri Martens discussed the wildland/urban interface threat within and surrounding the Bow Valley and the steps that have been taken over the past 20+ years to reduce the threat.
Keri Martens
Keri Martens, MA, is the Deputy Fire Chief of Canmore Fire Rescue. She has been involved in the fire service for over 20 years, originally starting her career as a paid responder and then taking on the position of Fire Chief for the Lake Louise Fire Department in Alberta. Keri took on the role of Deputy Chief with Canmore Fire Rescue in 2018 where her responsibilities include overseeing the Town’s FireSmart program including the implementation of the Home Assessment program along with yearly FireSmart Forums for community residents.
Chief Martens sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and chairs the CAFC’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She holds a Masters degree in Disaster and Emergency Management and is a member of Canada Task Force 2. Keri is married with 2 children and enjoys all the recreational perks of living in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Stew Walkinshaw
Stew Wilkenshaw is owner/operator of Montane Forest Management, based out of Canmore, and provides FireSmart specialist services to the Town of Canmore. He has specialized in FireSmart community planning and wildland/urban interface fire operations in western Canada since 1993.
ICLR Friday Forum: What's that sound?: Residents' reaction during a tsunami e...
On January 15, 2021, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'What's that sound?: How Residents Responded During a Tsunami Evacuation on Vancouver Island and How Similar Evacuations Might be Improved", led by Ryan P. Reynolds, MGIS, PhD, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of B.C.
It’s 3am on an early Tuesday morning, and you wake to the sound of a warning siren. You realize it’s your community’s tsunami warning system, and listen as it broadcasts instructions to evacuate the tsunami inundation zone and seek shelter on higher ground. You aren’t sure if you live in the inundation zone or not. What do you do? Dr. Reynolds conducted parallel door-to-door and online surveys to better understand how Port Alberni residents responded to this exact scenario on an early January morning in 2018. He wanted to learn how and when residents learned about the tsunami warning, what actions they took to respond, and where evacuees sought safety. We also wanted to explore residents’ views on how the evacuation was conducted by emergency officials and how the event may have changed their perceptions of tsunami risk in the community. In this webinar, findings were discussed from over 450 public surveys and interviews with 11 community and regional emergency officials in the Alberni Valley and highlight some best practices to improve future evacuations.
ICLR Friday Forum: Safety + serviceability of mass timber buildings for wind ...
On December 11, 2020 ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Ensuring safety and serviceability of tall mass timber buildings for wind', led by Dr. Girma Bitsuamlak of Western University.
The past two decades have seen the continuing global recognition of tall-wood buildings as a sustainable alternative to address urban densification and sprawl issues. Recent design strategies are using wood as the primary construction material for tall buildings. Alan Davenport’s wind-load-chain indicates that the wind response of structures is governed by their aerodynamic features (shape), wind speed and direction (micro-climate), and dynamic properties (weight, stiffness, and damping). The use of wood panels to construct the lateral and gravity systems of the tall-wood building makes them lightweight and less stiff than buildings made from conventional construction materials. Frequent exposure to wind-induced oscillations can cause discomfort to occupants and deflection related serviceability problems.
A coordinated wind research program was launched in January 2016 between FPInnovations, The University of British Columbia, and Western University. The research program includes aerodynamic and aeroelastic investigations of dozens of tall-wood building case studies in the boundary layer wind tunnel laboratory. It also includes a tornadic wind load study at the WindEEE dome. This talk summarized the main findings of the research program. For all case studies, safety and serviceability criteria were satisfied. However, for heights exceeding ninety meters, either aerodynamic optimization, or supplemental damping, or “wind bracing” through different hybridization techniques is required to satisfy the serviceability criteria of the 2015 National Building Code of Canada.
Girma T. Bitsuamlak, PhD, PEng, F CSCE
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Research Director at Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Lab. (BLWTL) and WindEEE Research Institute, Site leader at SHARCNET, Western University.
ICLR Friday Forum: Reducing the risk of fire following earthquake in B.C. (No...
On November 13, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Reducing the risk of fire following earthquake in the Lower Mainland, B.C.' led by Dr. Charles Scawthorn.
The Lower Mainland of British Columbia has significant risk due to earthquakes and the fires that follow them. Modeling was performed that accounted for fire department response, water system damage, weather and other conditions and the growth and ultimate final burnt area of fires. The resulting losses are estimated to be from nil to about C$10 billion. These are median estimates – there are significant probabilities of greater or less damage and the range is a function of the specific earthquake scenario (i.e., location and magnitude), time of day, weather and other factors. This loss would be almost entirely insured and would have a very significant impact on the Canadian insurance industry. Fire losses would come on top of shaking and other losses which would be insured to a lesser extent. A leading global reinsurer has stated that losses of this magnitude would likely result in failure of some insurers, would entail secondary and contingent losses, and could conceivably lead to financial contagion.
This risk need not be tolerated and indeed the Province of British Columbia, City of Vancouver, and regional agencies such as Metro Vancouver and BC Hydro have implemented excellent programs to reduce this risk. Further actions however can still be taken to reduce the risk of fire damage and include creation of a regional portable water supply system, providing secondary water supplies for high-rise buildings, and improvements in the region’s energy infrastructure. In this respect two actions have been de rigueur in other regions, and should be considered in the Lower Mainland: (a) a review of the overall seismic vulnerability and reliability of major energy facilities; (b) review of the gas distribution operator’s ability to control and isolate its transmission and distribution networks in the event of a major earthquake, and consideration by the operator of incorporating an automatic gas shutoff device in gas meters.
This webinar presented the modeling and results, and discussed opportunities for mitigation.
Charles Scawthorn (cscawthorn@sparisk.com ) is Principal of SPA Risk LLC and is internationally recognized as an authority for the analysis and mitigation of natural and technological hazards. He retired in 2008 as Professor and head of the Earthquake Disaster Prevention Systems Laboratory, Kyoto University (Japan), has been Visiting Professor at Stanford, Beijing Normal and Waseda (Tokyo) Universities and is now Visiting Researcher, Univ. California at Berkeley. He consults with the global insurance industry, the World Bank, local/state/federal agencies and Global 1000 corporations.
ICLR Friday Forum: Reducing the Risk of Flooding by Implementing Better Pract...
On October 9, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Reducing the Risk of Flooding by Implementing Better Practices for Sewer Construction', led by Barbara Robinson, Principal of Norton Engineering.
The conceptualization, design, construction, inspection, testing and acceptance of sanitary sewers has not changed very much in the past few decades. Civil Engineering is a very conservative field, and changes are slow to be accepted. Recent research has indicated that current design and construction practices for sanitary sewers are inadequate in reducing the risk that clean water (called Inflow and Infiltration, or I/I) enters sanitary sewers. Findings indicate that sewers are leaking unacceptably (e.g. allowing much more I/I that is permitted) when they are newly constructed, resulting in increased sewer backup flood risk in the immediate area and also downstream. Indeed, instances of basement flooding in new subdivisions are unacceptably common today.
This research (partially funded by the ICLR and Standards Council of Canada) has resulted in the publication of Best Practices Manuals to assist all stakeholders in building better sewers. These practices are being closely followed and implemented across Canada. For example, the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (the regulator that approves new sewers in Ontario) has incorporated many of these best practices in their Draft Sanitary Sewer Design Standards. The Standards Council of Canada is currently in the process of tendering the preparation of new national guidelines for new sewer system construction, based on this research. A second guideline is being prepared to share best practices in reducing excess water in existing sewer systems, with similar goals.
This presentation presented the problem, and summarized the massive costs associated with this excess I/I - costs that have not traditionally been considered in Engineering studies. In addition, the increased risks to municipalities that do not address this excess I/I was demonstrated.
Barbara Robinson, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., has been working in (literally) sanitary sewers for 30 years. As the president of Norton Engineering (est. 2015), she works across Canada assisting municipalities, provincial and federal government agencies in establishing and implementing provincial and national best practices in sanitary sewer construction, monitoring and repair. She also works as the CBC Radio 1 Infrastructure Columnist and with other media organizations.
Friday Forum: Updating Canada’s Fire Danger Rating System (August 7, 2020)
On August 7, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Updating Canada's fire danger rating system, led by Dr. Mike Wotton of the Canadian Forest Service. The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) as it exists today has evolved over more than eight decades, driven by ongoing research and also by the decision support needs of wildfire management operations in Canada. The development of the next significant step in the evolution of the CFFDRS (which we refer to as the Next Generation CFFDRS research program) is currently underway. The goal of these modifications is to allow greater flexibility and consistency in predicting fire ignition and spread across a broad range of fuel complexes. The underlying approach however will still remain rooted in the philosophy of using field-based observations calibrate simple physics-based models of the key processes that influence fire environment and hence fire behaviour.
This presentation summarized the methods used for assessing and communicating wildfire potential across the Canadian landscape. It described some of the modifications being proposed to develop the next generation of the CFFDRS and what these changes will mean to both casual and expert users of the system.
This presentation, by Mike Wotton of the Canadian Forest Service, made linkages between the most publicly well-known output of the CFFDRS --the roadside fire danger sign -- and the elements of system that operational fire managers use to inform their daily response and operational planning.
Friday Forum: Impact resilient roofing (July 10, 2020)
On July 10, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar titled 'Impact resilient roofing', lead by Vince Carrier and Mark Okland of IKO. Insurance companies across North America are experiencing rising claims from hail, severe wind and other climate risks. In many events, the most extensive losses involve damage to the roof, losses that can be prevented. IKO203 FORTIFIED Asphalt Shingle Roofs is an American Institute of Architects course that sets out actions required to install a damage resistant asphalt roof consistent with the FORTIFIED program.
This presentation explored why the program was created by the insurance industry in the United States through the Institute for Business and Home Safety. The presentation also explained how these measures provide protection from damage beyond that required in the building code, including a review of climate related resilient roofing products, testing results and the benefits of performance enhanced products.
The presentation by Mark Okland and Vince Carrier from Canada’s leading producer of asphalt shingles, IKO, was of particular interest to those presently responding to the damage resulting from the June 13 Calgary hail storm and will set out the value of an impact resilient roof.
ICLR Friday Forum: Anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm (June 26, 2020)
On June 26, 2020, ICLR conducted a special webinar on the June 13, 2020 Southern Alberta storm. On the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020, large swaths of southern Alberta, including portions of Calgary, where hit with high winds, torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hail. ICLR estimates that the hailstorm could very well be the costliest hail event in Canadian insurance history, surpassing the $580 million in insured damage caused by the August 7, 2014 hailstorm in Airdrie, Alberta. In this session, presenters discussed the meteorology of the event (what happened, when, why and how); the damage, as experienced by insurance adjusters responding to storm claims, and the impacts of hail on structures, including a look at building material performance, damage thresholds and damage mitigation.
Presentations include:
The anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm
Dr. Julian Brimelow, Physical Sciences Specialist, Applied Environmental Prediction Science, Prairie & Northern Region, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Boots on the ground: The adjusters’ view
Glenn Smith, Head of Global Catastrophe Logistics, CRU Group.
Calgary Hailstorm: Exposing our vulnerability to hail & where do we go from here?
Dr. Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist and Senior Director for Product Design, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
ICLR Friday Forum: Calgary hail damage (June 26, 2020)
On June 26, 2020, ICLR conducted a special webinar on the June 13, 2020 Southern Alberta storm. On the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020, large swaths of southern Alberta, including portions of Calgary, where hit with high winds, torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hail. ICLR estimates that the hailstorm could very well be the costliest hail event in Canadian insurance history, surpassing the $580 million in insured damage caused by the August 7, 2014 hailstorm in Airdrie, Alberta. In this session, presenters discussed the meteorology of the event (what happened, when, why and how); the damage, as experienced by insurance adjusters responding to storm claims, and the impacts of hail on structures, including a look at building material performance, damage thresholds and damage mitigation.
Presentations include:
The anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm
Dr. Julian Brimelow, Physical Sciences Specialist, Applied Environmental Prediction Science, Prairie & Northern Region, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Boots on the ground: The adjusters’ view
Glenn Smith, Head of Global Catastrophe Logistics, CRU Group
Calgary Hailstorm: Exposing our vulnerability to hail & where do we go from here?
Dr. Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist and Senior Director for Product Design, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
ICLR Friday Forum: Exposing our vulnerability to hail (June 26, 2020)
On June 26, 2020, ICLR conducted a special webinar on the June 13, 2020 Southern Alberta storm. On the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2020, large swaths of southern Alberta, including portions of Calgary, where hit with high winds, torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hail. ICLR estimates that the hailstorm could very well be the costliest hail event in Canadian insurance history, surpassing the $580 million in insured damage caused by the August 7, 2014 hailstorm in Airdrie, Alberta. In this session, presenters discussed the meteorology of the event (what happened, when, why and how); the damage, as experienced by insurance adjusters responding to storm claims, and the impacts of hail on structures, including a look at building material performance, damage thresholds and damage mitigation.
Presentations include:
The anatomy of a billion dollar hailstorm
Dr. Julian Brimelow, Physical Sciences Specialist, Applied Environmental Prediction Science, Prairie & Northern Region, Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Boots on the ground: The adjusters’ view
Glenn Smith, Head of Global Catastrophe Logistics, CRU Group
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Calgary Hailstorm: Exposing our vulnerability to hail & where do we go from here?
Dr. Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist and Senior Director for Product Design, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
ICLR Friday Forum: Building Codes Prevent Wind Damage (June 12, 2020)
On June 12, 2020, ICLR conducted a Friday Forum webinar led by Dr. Kevin Simmons, Austin College, titled 'Building Codes Prevent Wind Damage'. Engineers have designed structures that limit damage from some of nature’s most powerful wind storms. But before those innovations can do their job they must be incorporated into common construction practice either through inclusion in building codes or through increased demand by homebuyers. The cost of homeownership includes more than the purchase price. But because codes aim to minimize first costs, new design tends to be economically inefficient. It’s here that economists can demonstrate resilient construction is cost effective with a positive return on investment in areas where damaging wind storms are common. Analysis from Florida after Hurricane Andrew and from Moore Oklahoma after it changed its wind ordinance demonstrates that resilience is worthwhile, showing benefit-cost ratios for better design on the order of 4:1 and higher with no effect on affordability or market activity.
Dr. Kevin Simmons is known internationally for his work on the economics of natural hazards. His research has been highlighted and he has been interviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, Weather Channel, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, Christian Science Monitor and USA Today among others. He has published more than 100 articles and co-authored 2 books with Dan Sutter, Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes and Deadly Season: Analyzing the 2011 Tornado Outbreaks. Dr. Simmons served as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway in 2010 and again to Canada in 2014 as well as a Visiting Scholar with NOAA in 2017. Currently, he is a Professor of Economics at Austin College where he holds the endowed Clara R. and Leo F. Corrigan Chair of Economics.
ICLR Friday Forum: Living with fire in Canada's forests (May 15, 2020)
The prevalence of wildfire disasters across Canada over the past two decades such as occurred in Kelowna, BC in 2003 and Fort McMurray, AB in 2016 has prompted a continuing search for solutions to address the wildland-urban interface or intermix (WUI) problem in the country. While it is theoretically possible to exclude human-caused wildfire occurrences, the complete exclusion of unwanted fires is not likely given even the most highly sophisticated fire prevention, detection and suppression programs. Professor Dougal Drysdale (2011) – Introduction to Fire Dynamics has stated that "Further major advances in combating wildfire are unlikely to be achieved simply by continued application of traditional methods. What is required is a more fundamental approach which can be applied at the design stage ... Such an approach requires a detailed understanding of fire behaviour." The concept of forest conflagration control through managing vegetation or fuels is discussed on the basis that the elimination of ignition risk in the WUI is not foreseen as feasible and that addressing the “fuel” component of the fire environment offers the only viable course of action possible given that neither weather or topography can be modified. The aim of fuels management is to reduce a fire’s intensity and spread rate so that containment by conventional suppression forces can be effective. In this regard, the creation of “aspen fuel breaks” offers one of the best chances for success.
Dr. Marty Alexander is a registered professional forester who began his wildland fire career in 1972 as a hotshot crew member. He retired from full-time work in late 2010 as a senior fire behaviour research officer after nearly 35 years with the Canadian Forest Service. His primary research and technology transfer interests have principally focused on the practical application of empirical fire behaviour knowledge to community protection and firefighter safety concerns. Marty has continued this line of emphasis in semi-retirement.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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