Disaster risk reduction and the engineer
As part of WA’s Eminent Speaker Series, Emeritus Professor and winner of the 2010 Sir John Connell Medal, Paul Grundy, will speak about how engineers can work to reduce the risk of disasters.
“The impact of disasters is most severe in impoverished and developing countries without the resilience to mitigate the impact or the capacity to recover quickly. In this Year of Humanitarian Engineering, it is time for engineers to take up the challenge of Disaster Risk Reduction.” Emeritus Professor Paul Grundy, FIEAust CPEng
When: Tuesday April 19 - 5.30pm for 6pm start.
Where: Auditorium, EA WA Division, 7/2 Murray St, West Perth, WA.
Cost: Free for members, $10 non-members.
Contact: Nina Piotrowicz.
Tel: 02 6270 6548.
Email: emininentspeakerseries@engineersaustralia.org
Download flyer for more information on the event.
This event is hosted by the College of Structural Engineering.
