Mary Comerio is an internationally recognised expert on disaster resilience and recovery. She has been on the faculty in the Department of Architecture at U. C. Berkeley for 40 years and has served as Chair. She led the FEMA sponsored Disaster Resistant University Program, and the Building Systems Research with Helmut Krawinkler at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center.

This week, Mary and Ed chat about building for resilience against natural disasters and pandemics, protecting power supply and other supply lines, and planning for future disasters.

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