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Understanding Risk in the Built Environment

Date: April 16, 2018 Time: 1:00PM - 5:30PM Location: Victoria Conference Centre (Map it)

The British Columbia Construction Association is hosting Understanding Risk British Columbia 2018: Implementing strategies to reduce natural hazard risk in B.C.'s built environment (UR+BC). It takes place at the Victoria Conference Centre on April 16 and 17.

The UR+BC symposium marks the first time the construction industry is playing a leadership role in bringing together builders, designers, engineers, scientists, and policy makers to tackle the challenges of hazard mitigation and increased resilience in the industrial, commercial, and institutional built environment.

As one of the world’s extreme multi-hazard zones, mitigation and resilience issues in the built environment are relevant to every region of B.C.

For more details, please visit the symposium website.