Engineers Canada reaches agreement to transfer ownership of the PIEVC Program to the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
On March 30, Engineers Canada and the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) jointly announced that an agreement has been reached for ICLR to assume ownership of Engineers Canada’s PIEVC Program, which includes the Protocol for infrastructure climate risk and vulnerability assessment (the “Protocol”).
ICLR has partnered with the Climate Risk Institute and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to operate the PIEVC Program and offer the Protocol in Canada and internationally.
The Protocol is a rigorous, proven process to assess current and future climate risks and vulnerabilities of civil infrastructure and buildings. It was developed and co-funded by Engineers Canada and Natural Resources Canada and has been applied to a wide variety of more than 70 infrastructure projects ranging from single buildings to complete water supply systems in large and small municipalities across Canada.
The Protocol has also been used in Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, the Nile Basin and Vietnam.
“Engineers Canada took the decision to divest the PIEVC Program to an entity that would ensure it continues to receive the attention and investments it needs to effectively serve private industry, Indigenous communities and all levels of government as well as interested parties outside of Canada,” says Gerard McDonald, Chief Executive Officer of Engineers Canada.
“We are confident that the PIEVC Program is going to a group that recognizes the importance of climate resilience in our critical infrastructure and will ensure that the Program will thrive in the years ahead.”
Every year, severe weather causes significant damage and disruption to property and infrastructure – both public and private – across the country and around the world,” says Paul Kovacs, Executive Director of ICLR.
“As our climate continues to warm, these impacts will only become more acute, making tools such as the Protocol critical in decision-making processes to make critical infrastructure more resilient. The partnership of ICLR/CRI/GIZ will ensure that the Protocol remains the preeminent tool to ensure that both the existing and the next generation of critical infrastructure is retrofitted/built to handle the climate of the future.”
Both ICLR and CRI will partner to manage all aspects of the PIEVC Program as it is used in Canada. GIZ will manage all international uses of the Protocol.
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