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Our interdisciplinary team develops future-ready strategies that address near- and long-term hazards, strengthening the performance and durability of assets across their full lifecycle.

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2,000+ Sustainability & Resilience Projects
20+ Global Project Regions
70+ Years of Experience in Disaster Response
200+ Flood Mitigation Projects

Here's How

Cities, communities, facilities, and organizations are exposed to chronic stresses and acute shocks that can disrupt function, performance, and continuity. Their ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and recover from these events is critical to long-term operational success. Our interdisciplinary team of experts applies a systems-based approach to resilience. We deliver quantitative risk analysis and decision-support strategies to inform physical interventions, adaptation pathways, and mitigation measures that enhance asset performance, reliability, and continuity under evolving conditions.

Here's how we tackle climate change

Qualifications

Our interdisciplinary team delivers resilience advisory through integrated multi-hazard risk assessment, systems thinking, and implementation support across built assets and organizations. We work with owners, operators, and design teams from early planning through operations to embed resilience into capital planning and asset strategy. 

Our expertise includes quantitative, scenario-based analysis of exposure, vulnerability, and criticality across physical and organizational systems. We evaluate performance under a range of hazards and disruption scenarios, including flood, seismic, fire, extreme weather, infrastructure interdependencies, and operational risks. 

We translate analysis into actionable resilience strategies that improve asset reliability, reduce systemic vulnerability, and support continuity of operations under evolving conditions.

Here's how we can help you:

  • Multi-hazard risk and vulnerability assessments (physical and operational)
  • Performance-based engineering under disruptive events
  • Critical infrastructure and asset exposure analysis
  • Climate, geophysical, and extreme event risk engineering
  • Adaptation and mitigation strategy (physical and operational)
  • Capital planning and resilience investment prioritization
  • Probabilistic multi-hazard risk alignment
  • Implementation, operations, and maintenance support
  • Interactive risk and data visualization

Our Team

Julie Pietrzak
Julie Pietrzak
Senior Principal & Sustainability and Resilience Practice Leader
jpietrzak@thorntontomasetti.com +1.917.661.7972 New York
Barbara Gao
Barbara Gao
Senior Project Director
mgao@thorntontomasetti.com +1.646.407.9546 New York

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