ASCE has honored John W. van de Lindt, Ph.D., F.SEI, F.ASCE, with the 2024 Vilas Mujumdar Resilience Award for advancements in resilience research for communities to mitigate the adverse effects of natural hazards.
Van de Lindt currently serves as the Harold H. Short Endowed Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, and he is the co-director for the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning. The Vilas Mujumdar Award seeks a person who has created models and research that has a direct impact on a community’s ability to recover and its long-term resilience; the research that Van de Lindt conducts and shares is wholly dedicated to this aim.
His contributions to the field of civil infrastructure resilience, specifically his work with performance-based engineering, structure to community-scale resilience modeling, and design innovation in wood-frame structures for enhanced resilience and sustainability, have proven their importance. Van de Lindt has seen firsthand the damages and destruction that events such as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes can have on communities, especially ones that are socioeconomically vulnerable, and he has been steadfast in dedicating his time, energy, and life’s work to preventing and ameliorating the havoc and instability they can bring. His contributions to multiple subdisciplines within the resilience field are vast.
The Vilas Mujumdar Resilience Award was established in October 2022 to recognize ASCE members who have made a definite contribution to the advancement of resilience, specifically those who have developed models to prepare and plan for mitigation of potential adverse effects due to natural hazards, climate change, or other environmental hazards in interdependent civil infrastructure systems.
