Building resiliency with Massachusetts's Design Standards Tool

April 3, 2023

The Resilient Massachusetts Action Team’s Climate Resilience Design Standards tool is aimed at helping the state become stronger against intense weather.

Katie Johns

Julie Eaton Ernst, resilience team leader at Weston & Sampson discusses the company’s role in developing the Resilient Massachusetts Action Team’s Climate Resilience Design Standards tool, which recently earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ 56th annual Engineering Excellence Awards. Eaton Ernst also talks about date and how resiliency innovation is important to the industry.

Massachusetts Action Team’s Climate Resilience Design Standards Tool

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About the Author

Katie Johns

Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Storm Water Solutions and Water Quality Products, graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016 with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. Johns joined the Storm Water Solutions team in September 2019. Johns also helps plan the annual StormCon conference and co-hosts the Talking Under Water podcast. Prior to entering the B2B industry, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Sarasota, Florida, and a magazine assistant editor in the Chicago suburbs. She can be reached at [email protected].