Extreme Heat

Sustainable Healthy Futures Webinar Series – Extreme Heat

September 3, 2024

As extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, vulnerable communities are disproportionately affected, facing heightened health risks and limited resources for adaptation. This webinar will focus on community-led efforts to address extreme heat and promote health equity. You will hear from local leaders and activists developing and implementing heat resilience strategies tailored to their community’s unique needs.

Extreme Heat Means Tough Choices for NYC Building Owners

August 6, 2024

Aside from thermal cracks, a related focus for structural engineers are gaps between dissimilar materials that respond to heat differently. For both of these reasons, New York City buildings will likely see an uptick in thermal cracking and weathering this century, according to Rutgers’ Andrews.

How a major hurricane could upend Cape and Islands’ economy

August 1, 2024

“The houses that were affected by Sandy that suffered damage, for three years they were worth less than neighboring houses, but by year four the market had forgotten. And they were worth just as much as neighboring houses,” Andrews said.

NYC lawmaker wants to require landlords to provide air conditioning during the summer

July 19, 2024

Clinton Andrews co-authored a recent study on senior apartments in public housing units in Elizabeth, N.J. found that cooling centers could “significantly reduce morbidity and mortality rates during heat disasters, especially among socially isolated and physically frail low-income seniors,” and recommended mandatory cooling requirements for all renters in its findings. He applauded the move by NYC lawmakers.

Extreme heat broke a New York City bridge. Expect more infrastructure mishaps like this

July 12, 2024

Cities all over the world that lie closer to the equator than [New York] build infrastructure to a more heat-resistant standard,” Andrews says. “We have to adapt ours in that direction, over time.”

How the heat will continue to affect your commute

July 11, 2024

Clinton Andrews discusses how the ongoing heat wave is affecting transit infrastructure in and around New York City.

NJSPL – Extreme Heat, Coastal Flooding, and Health Disparities

April 18, 2024

New Jersey is facing a myriad of climate challenges, many of which are linked to particularly problematic public health effects. Unfortunately, the state’s elderly population is uniquely vulnerable to these public health implications, and the population only continues to grow.