Government and Design Team-Up to Bolster Resilience at 10 Bay Area Sites

Route Fifty: An international resilience challenge selected 10 Bay Area sites Thursday for the collaborative design phase of the competition, creating solutions to climate change and regional inequalities ahead of disasters.

From rising sea levels to rising rents, local residents and officials, as well as engineers and architects from international firms, will work together over the next five months to address such threats as part of the Resilient by Design : Bay Area Challenge.

Solutions will be replicable regionally and worldwide, with the 10 design teams themselves hailing from across nine countries and 13 states.

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