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PID Attends Launch of Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action (PAD)

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April 15, 2025

PAD launch event with architecture professionals

PID Floors was honored to join the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, and the AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee for the New York City for the official launch and panel event of Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action (PAD), a climate change and cities assessment by Cambridge University Press, bringing together authors from 23 cities across 15 countries at the Center for Architecture in New York City.

PAD is the Planning, Architecture, and Urban Design element of UCCRN's Third Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.3), a global synthesis of the latest science and practice on urban climate change, developed to support more resilient, equitable, and sustainable cities worldwide.

Panel discussion on climate action and urban design
Attendees networking at PAD event
Speakers presenting sustainability initiatives

We spent an incredible evening surrounded by top architects, planners, and urban designers whose panel discussions focused on applying climate science into actionable guidance including case studies as tools to assess ways of mitigating the impact of climate change in New York City. At PID Floors, we are rigorously committed to the ongoing health, protection, and well-being of both our clients and the environment. We strive to achieve sustainable practices in an industry that is constantly evolving. Bridging science and urban design practice, we were inspired by the evening’s multitude of conversations about how to include climate change in planning and urban design. We learned how this delivers co-benefits across multiple sectors and spatial scales and ultimately, how it makes it possible to design people-centered public spaces that enhance energy efficiency, improve public health and quality of life, and create social resiliency.

Thank you for a remarkable and inspiring evening, AIA NY!

Urban design professionals at launch event
PID Floors team attending industry event

Speakers included:

• Ilana Judah, AIA, OAQ, LEED BD+C, CPHC, Americas Climate and Sustainability Leader, Arup

• Martina Kohler, Asst. Professor, Director BFA Architectural Design, Parsons School of Design

• Mattia Leone, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II

• Paul Onyx Lozito, AICP, Deputy Executive Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice; President, American Planning Association

• Franco Montalto, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Civil Engineering, Drexel University and President and Founder of eDesign Dynamics LLC

• Juan Camilo Osorio, PhD., Associate Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture

• Jeffrey Raven, Ph.D., FAIA, LEED BD+C, Assoc. Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture & Design, New York Institute of Technology; Principal, RAVEN A+U

• Cynthia Rosenzweig, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia Climate School; Co-director, Urban Climate Change Research Network

• William Solecki, Ph.D., Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York; Co-director, Urban Climate Change Research Network

• Joel Towers, AIA., President, The New School. University Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design, Parsons School of Design