CEOs Announce Major Commitment to Promote Resilient Planning and Building Materials

CEOs Announce Major Commitment to Promote Resilient Planning and Building Materials

Tuesday, May 13, 2014  

For the first time, leaders of America’s design and construction industry, along with building owners and operators, have agreed to promote resilience in planning, building materials, design, construction and operational techniques as the solution to making the nation’s aging infrastructure more safe and secure.

Today, chief executive officers (CEOs) of almost two-dozen leading design and construction industry associations—with a combined membership of more than 750,000 professionals who are responsible for generating almost $1 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP)—used the occasion of “Building Safety Month” to issue a joint statement on resilience. The Alliance for a Resilient Tomorrow unveiled its statement at a press conference at the National Building Museum, where a major exhibition,Designing for Disaster, presenting design and building solutions for disaster mitigation, opened May 11.

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