The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) awarded PhD-AECM candidate Bobuchi Ken-Opurum the Business Case Award on Wednesday, 14 October 2020. This award recognizes the fellow who has presented the strongest case for a project recommendation, backed by sound quantitative analysis and with a high likelihood of implementation.
The EDF recognizes Bobuchi for her Climate Corps Fellowship at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency over this past summer. Bobuchi’s work included the development of a GIS integrated Cost-Benefit Analysis Decision Support tool to aid capital agencies present consistent and transparent monetary quantification of benefits of resilient design elements when making funding requests to the City’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). As part of her research, she developed formulas for the NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency to quantify and justify resiliency design solutions in capital projects.
