OVERVIEW
Think you’re designing a 100-year building? Not if a 100-year storm destroys it next year.
In this section, you will:
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gather lessons learned from case studies of the very first resilient design projects
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understand how your green building expertise already overlaps with resilience
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find out how to assess the region-specific risks your project faces as a result of climate change
Once you complete your own resilience assessment, you can develop strategies to design for building “hardening,” food security, passive survivability, and program flexibility to accommodate community support functions.
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Net-Zero Water and More: Moving Beyond “Low Flow”
Feature Article
These emerging water strategies are finding momentum and filling the need to address efficiency and resilience on multiple scales.
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Resilient Design: 7 Lessons from Early Adopters
Feature Article
As storms reveal weaknesses in our built environment, some project teams have adopted more robust, durable principles.
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Waste Water, Want Water
Feature Article
Options for small-scale, onsite wastewater treatment and reuse are improving-but can we solve a global crisis one building at a time?
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Elevated New Orleans Buildings Pass a Flood Test
Feature Short
A housing project that replaced one damaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was designed high enough to withstand a recent flood.
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Instructions on Rebuilding a Resilient Puerto Rico
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A resilience manual for building disaster-resistant homes in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Florida Keys will be published in 2019.
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Resilient Design-Smarter Building for a Turbulent Future
Feature Article
Resilience is the new green. With decades of green building experience, we are ready to face climate change.
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How a Hurricane Forged New Hope for Resilience
Feature Short
Hurricane Maria is inspiring design that has the next natural disaster in mind
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Design for Adaptation: Living in a Climate-Changing World
Feature Article
Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, rising global temperatures would still bring major changes to the climate system and our way of life. This article offers solutions for designing buildings that not only mitigate our impact on the global climate, but also adapt to the changes that are coming-and those that are already here.
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‘Build Higher’: HUD’s Rules After Harvey, Irma, Maria
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HUD’s new rules for disaster recovery funds reinstate floodplain building standards established by Obama and revoked by Trump.
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Checking for Resilience in Multifamily Housing
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Washington, D.C. is developing a tool to assess affordable multifamily housing for resilience to climate change.
