Atlas partners with WFEO for the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Code
Atlas is delighted to be a partner of WFEO and wholeheartedly supports the Summary Document for the WFEO Model Code of Practice – Climate Adaptation and Resilience for Engineers – WFEO Working Group on Climate Change under the leadership of WFEO President Mustafa Shehu. This document, chaired by Davide Stronati, builds on the excellent work of Engineers Canada, and its past leaders Darrel Danyluk, David Lapp and Jeanette Southwood at Engineers Canada and others. Atlas and its current President Guna …
Atlas VP of Innovation Publishes Article on a Systems Approach to Infrastructure
Atlas International VP of Innovation has published an article to challenge civil engineers to apply a Systems Engineering and Systems Integration approach to Infrastructure, especially to new types of infrastructure. Civil engineers are confronting a variety of environmental challenges, demographic shifts and sociological, economic, and technological changes that will require a drastic rethinking of how we build, operate, and maintain our infrastructure systems. There is a need for a new approach. Holistic systems thinking is …
Atlas is Named as a Pan American Collaborating Organization
Atlas is named as a collaborating initiative in the Pan American Academy of Engineering (PAEE) Panama Declaration. The Declaration is a call to action to world leaders to advance engineering education and sustainable and resilient infrastructure for the benefit of humanity, by leveraging the power and potential of artificial intelligence, of integration of global initiatives, and of increased collaboration. This declaration was authored and signed during the PAEE Silver Jubilee meeting in Panama City, Panama, …
Designing Resilient Giga AI Factories for America’s Future
Building future-ready, climate-resilient AI capacity requires getting design decisions right from day one. On August 19, 2025, the Atlas Initiative for Critical Infrastructure (AtlasInfra.org), the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) (sustainableinfrastructure.org), developer of the Envision® sustainable infrastructure rating system, the Climate Risk Institute (CRI) (climateriskinstitute.ca), Alliance partner for the PIEVC Protocol for climate risk assessment, and Sustain360°™ (sustain360.ai), an AI-enabled Climate Intelligence platform, announced a strategic collaboration to apply proven mega-scale standards into the earliest …
Digital Advances and AI Demand More Attention to Cyber Security for Infrastructure
Atlas International VP of Innovation writes an article calling for more attention to cyber security for civil infrastructure. He contends that we are not prepared. We are not aware of how unprepared we are. We are not aware of the cost to prepare. We are not aware of how damaging our unpreparedness could be. Cyber security is simply another risk management issue. When designing and building infrastructure, we are familiar with risk management trade-offs applied …
WFEO and Atlas Sign Prague Declaration
The World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) President Jose Veira (right) and President Elect Mustapha Shehu (center) sign the WFEO/Atlas Prague Declaration. Mike Sanio, Atlas Executive Director (left), looks on with a smile of accomplishment. The Prague Declaration, announces a new initiative to create National Infrastructure Roundtables for a Just Transition that leaves no one behind. Organized by engineers, the National Roundtables will promote climate and disaster resilient infrastructure that is inclusive, multisectoral, and sustainable …