Design decisions for buildings and communities are critical to efforts to increase local and regional resiliency. Building designers — of residential, institutional, and commercial structures — should strive to incorporate passive and active survivability concepts into new and renovated structures.
Community planners and developers need to incorporate concepts that increase the capacity to maintain transportation flow, strategies to handle water management, and infrastructure approaches that will withstand a variety of risks.
The Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Industrial and Commercial Buildings
PreventionWeb’s Disaster Resilience Scorecard provides a baseline for buildings and campus resilience to natural hazards or man-made disasters, and allows progress to be tracked as improvements are made, as the urban environment changes, or as the ownership and/or operation of the building changes.
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) is an online resource designed to help people find and use information, tools, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience.
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) believes we must continuously look over the horizon to foreseeable and unforeseeable crises and see what plans are on the table, what preparations need to be made and what assets are in place. And when these tragedies do occur, we need to deploy the resources and assistance to help communities recover smarter, greener and better.
Understanding Virginia’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
This report from the Georgetown Climate Center and Old Dominion University’s Mitigation & Adaptation Research Institute touches on two threats to Virginia’s communities: rising seas, flooding, and extreme storms; and threats from extreme heat.
Walking The Talk: Business Resilience Planning at Facility Engineering Associates
Maureen Roskoski of Facility Engineering Associates describes how FEA committed to pursue certification under the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Systems standard.
The Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Industrial and Commercial Buildings
PreventionWeb’s Disaster Resilience Scorecard provides a baseline for buildings and campus resilience to natural hazards or man-made disasters, and allows progress to be tracked as improvements are made, as the urban environment changes, or as the ownership and/or operation of the building changes.
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) is an online resource designed to help people find and use information, tools, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience.
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) believes we must continuously look over the horizon to foreseeable and unforeseeable crises and see what plans are on the table, what preparations need to be made and what assets are in place. And when these tragedies do occur, we need to deploy the resources and assistance to help communities recover smarter, greener and better.
Understanding Virginia’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
This report from the Georgetown Climate Center and Old Dominion University’s Mitigation & Adaptation Research Institute touches on two threats to Virginia’s communities: rising seas, flooding, and extreme storms; and threats from extreme heat.
Walking The Talk: Business Resilience Planning at Facility Engineering Associates
Maureen Roskoski of Facility Engineering Associates describes how FEA committed to pursue certification under the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Systems standard.