FEMA selects Stantec team for national flood mapping, risk mitigation
Design firm Stantec has been selected by FEMA to provide engineering and technical services for the National Flood Insurance Program under a five-year contract valued at up to US$300 million.
Projects under this architecture and engineering contract include regional flood hazard modeling, floodplain mapping, and flood management services with the mission of increasing risk awareness and inspiring communities to take mitigative actions to reduce the risk to life and property. The goal is to increase community resilience to better withstand, adapt and recover from future disasters.
The Strategic Alliance for Risk Reduction II (STARR II) Joint Venture will support the agency’s Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) program throughout 12 midwestern and western states, as well as Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Stantec, along with STARR II partners Atkins and Dewberry, have supported FEMA’s Risk MAP program since 2009.
“It’s an honor to continue our decades of work with FEMA in its mission to help protect the nation against disasters, especially as there is a rising urgency to better equip our communities against the impacts of climate change,” said Mike Anderson, vice president and Stantec’s FEMA program manager. “In building on our program success with our joint venture partners, we are keenly focused on the unified goal of providing the critical tools and information that will better arm communities in improving resilience and adaption strategies to ultimately help protect lives.”
The Risk MAP program aims to provide credible, quality flood data, build partnerships and inform long-term hazard mitigation planning to build resilience. Risk MAP’s Flood Risk Products provide information that enhance the development of hazard mitigation and risk-based mitigation strategies.
As part of its support of FEMA’s Risk MAP program, Stantec has performed flood studies covering more than 150,000 riverine and coastal miles, developing regulatory and other flood-risk communication products nationwide.
