What are King Tides? Also known as tidal flooding or sunny day flooding, they are the highest tides of the season and are naturally occurring, predictable events. Below are 10 tips to help you prepare your family and property during king tide season. 1. Know your flood zone, visit msc.fema.gov to learn about your flood […]
Brizaga is proud to welcome Josh to our team as our Resilience and Adaptation Intern. He is a senior at Florida Atlantic University and will be working with us through the summer. Welcome, Josh! Josh Tronnier is a Senior Environmental Engineering student at Florida Atlantic University. Originally a chemistry major, he decided he desired a […]
Former State Senator Ellyn Bogdanoff wrote a piece for Florida Politics highlighting the need for action on sea level rise. A read we recommend. Ellyn Bogdanoff: Florida must take the lead when it comes to sea level rise Fixing our flood control system is just one piece of the big resiliency puzzle
From our Brizaga family to yours, Happy New Year! This new year will bring some changes for Brizaga. We are starting 2019 in a new space in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale that can grow with us. Please update your records as our new address is: 100 SE 3rd Ave, Suite 1000 Fort Lauderdale, […]
Cummins Cederberg recently finished a vulnerability assessment for Matheson Hammock Park in Miami-Dade County. Our Co-Founder, Alec Bogdanoff, was asked about the report by the Miami Herald and the need to adapt public spaces when thinking about sea level rise. Sea-rise proofing community spots is a vote of confidence for residents that their government cares […]
Our Co-Founder, Alec Bogdanoff, recently joined Broward’s Business Leaders to discuss the National Flood Insurance Program with Congressman Ted Deutch, the Co-Chair of the Climate Solutions Caucus. WLRN reported on the event with the article, “South Florida Business Leaders Strategize Responses To National Flood Insurance Plan Crisis.” Alec Bogdanoff, the co-founder of Fort Lauderdale engineering […]
Alec serves as the Co-Chair for the Economic Resilience Committee for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. His predecessor, Ina Lee, wrote an Op-Ed on resilience success stories in Broward County. When I was asked to spearhead the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce’s sea-level rise and resiliency initiative two years ago, I knew […]
Brizaga is now proudly a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA defines the program as an initiative to “formally recognize NOAA partners who are improving the nation’s readiness against extreme weather, water, and climate events. As a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador, your organization is committing to work with NOAA and […]
From our Brizaga family to you and yours, Happy New Year. We ended 2017 on an optimistic note with Alec’s opinion piece, “Sea level rise: Take a measured, not manic, approach” published in the Sun Sentinel.
It’s hard to believe that it has been six months since we started Brizaga. Looking back at when we launched, we had one desire – to help our community understand the risks of rising seas and figure out what to do to reduce that risk. While our core mission is the same, our company evolved […]
