Assessment of the Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerabilities Associated with Potential Climate and Weather-related Impacts at Sandspit Airport, British Columbia

The principal objective of this project is to undertake a risk assessment and identify those components of the specified airport infrastructure that may be at risk of failure, damage, loss of service and/or deterioration from extreme climatic events or significant changes to baseline climate design values. In addition, there is a need for the acquisition of climate projections and climate data, as well as expert advisory services associated with properly interpreting the climate-related information and data. Your participation will also be required at an in-person risk assessment workshop at Sandspit Airport, at a future date (yet to be determined). The nature and relative levels of climate risk are to be determined in order to establish priorities for remedial action. The assessment shall be carried out using the Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee’s (PIEVC) Engineering Protocol, Version 10 dated October 2011. The results of this project are intended to inform, where appropriate, investment and asset management decisions by Transport Canada, the owner and operator of the airport. The results of this project may also be analyzed with other PIEVC case studies to develop, in the future, recommendations around reviews of codes, standards and engineering practices.