Rebuild By Design

Civic Data Design Lab (CDDL) has participated in "Rebuild by Design," an international competition being organized by the President's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to foster new ideas and strategies related to climate resilience and flood protection. Rebuild by Design was launched over the summer with the goal of developing multifaceted, innovative proposals that address the continued threat of climate change along vulnerable coastal regions of the northeast. In September, MIT was selected as one of ten interdisciplinary teams to advance to the next competition phase. Currently, CDDL is partnering with a team of fellow researchers, engineers and designers from MIT and a group of Dutch firms that specialize in disaster resilient design, which include Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS), De Urbanisten, Deltares, VolkerInfra and 75B.