Codes, Standards, and Community Resilience

Building Safer Communities in a Changing Risk Environment

Location Details: IN PERSON ONLY

THIS IS AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN OUR REGULAR MEETINGS
Pauline Espinosa Community Hall - 170 Charles Austin Dr., San Marcos, TX

Program Summary: Model codes and standards have long played a vital but often unseen role in safeguarding the health, safety, and welfare of our communities. Today, with risks escalating due to severe weather, natural disasters, pandemics, and development in areas exposed to wildfires, the adoption and enforcement of modern codes and integration of codes and code officials into disaster response and recovery has never seemed more urgent.

This seminar explores how modern codes and code officials can serve as powerful tools and partners for enhancing community resilience across all four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. 

Sessions include:

• The Role of Model Codes in Modern Risk Management
• Effective Emergency Management: 
• Wildfire Risk Management Strategies for Building Wildfire Resilient Communities
• Codes and Code Officials in Disaster Response and Recovery
• Panel Discussion: Partnering for Safer Communities — Case Studies and Guidance on Breaking Silos

• Karl Fippinger, CEM, PMP, Vice President, Fire and Disaster Mitigation, ICC
• Justice Jones, Fire and Disaster Program Manager, ICC
• Jim Redick, MPA, CEM, Director, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, City of Austin
• Jim Olk, Emergency Response Director, Building Officials Association of Texas
• Harry Evans, Retired Chief of Staff, Austin Fire Department
• Waheeda Yousofzoy, MPS, CEM, Tri-City Director of Emergency Management
• Mike Shannon, Development Services Director, City of San Antonio
• Ron Buys, Texas Task Force 1

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
September 12th at 5:00 p.m.

(NO REFUNDS FOR CANCELLATIONS AFTER THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE)