Making Resilience Cool

by Audrey Luu

Making Resilience Cool is a podcast brought to you by the US Resiliency Council, based on the 12-episode Resilience Advantage series created by the USRC with the generous support of Optimum Seismic. This podcast targets students, young engineers and anyone who wants to learn more about how they can contribute to and be leaders in the movement to make our buildings and communities more resilient to natural disasters like earthqu ...   ...  Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Making Resilience Cool - Episode 19 - Resilience is the Best Medicine

    Making Resilience Cool - Episode 19 - Resilience is the Best Medicine

    In episode 19, Dr. Sharyl Rabinovici, an expert in disaster policy, walks us through her experiences educating people and communities about how to adopt good resilience practices. Her objective is to communicate that “prevention is the best medicine!”

  • Making Resilience Cool - Episode 18 - Resilience is Gold

    Making Resilience Cool - Episode 18 - Resilience is Gold

    In this episode of Making Resilience Cool, we dive into resilient design of the Portland Treasury Building with Byron Williams, the chief administrative director at the Oregon State Treasury, Craig Stockbridge, a principal with GBD Architects, and Reid Zimmerman, the technical director for KPFF in Oregon.

  • Making Resilience Cool - Episode 17 - Innovation that Excites

    Making Resilience Cool - Episode 17 - Innovation that Excites

    Alan Klembczyk, Kyle Wilson, Blake Roskelley, Brandt Saxey, and Jeff Ellis come together in this episode to showcase the boom in innovative products within the field of structural engineering.

  • Making Resilience Cool - Episode 16 - The Laws of Risk and Resilience

    Making Resilience Cool - Episode 16 - The Laws of Risk and Resilience

    Madison Spach is a Southern California attorney who specializes in construction liability. He explains the technicalities when it comes to the laws of risk and resilience using a recent and sobering example– the Myrick vs Mistangi case.

  • Making Resilience Cool - Episode 15 - Silver Lining

    Making Resilience Cool - Episode 15 - Silver Lining

    In this episode of Making Resilience Cool, Camilla Seth, the Director of the Finance Hub, talks about her experiences working to develop philanthropic strategies to promote resilience. She helps us uncover the silver lining when it comes to resiliency!