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RESILIENT DESIGN RESOURCES

  

The range and number of resilient design resources have expanded tremendously over the past few years, as the focus and attention on these emerging design elements increases and intensifies. They range from educational curriculum to rating systems to hazard assessment tools to industry standards criteria. We’ve created this resource page to point our clients, colleagues, and workshop attendees toward recommended resources that we use in assessing risk levels and recommending resilient design strategies. This is a rapidly evolving area of professional expertise that requires regular updates in order to stay current. We will continue to build-out, maintain, and update this resource list to provide the most current and credible information. 

As a starter we suggest the following:

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (March 2023)

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (March 2023)

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (March 2023)

In March 2023 the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth annual Synthesis Report on Climate Change for Policymakers.  Detailed sections include: Current Status and Trends, Future Climate Change Risks, and Responses In The Near Term under which this summary statement can be found. 

"Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health (very high confidence). There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence). The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years (high confidence)."

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf

The Fifth National Climate Assessment (November 2023)

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (March 2023)

Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (March 2023)

 The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States.  Even with the progress made in reducing emissions, the assessment states:

"...global average temperatures are not expected to fall for centuries unless CO2 emissions become net negative, which is when CO2 removal from the atmosphere exceeds CO2 emissions from human activities. Regardless of when or if further warming is avoided, some long-term responses to the temperature changes that have already occurred will continue. These responses include sea level rise, ice sheet losses, and associated disruptions to human health, social systems, and ecosystems. In addition, the ocean will continue to acidify after the world reaches net-zero CO2 emissions, as it continues to gradually absorb CO2 in the atmosphere from past emissions." 

 https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/


LEED Resilient Design Pilot Credits

NOAA's US Climate Resilience Toolkit

NOAA's US Climate Resilience Toolkit

US Green Building Council has "revised the three Resilient Design pilot credits to improve their effectiveness, reflect feedback from LEED project teams and harmonize the credits with RELi, USGBC’s emerging resilience standard."

https://www.usgbc.org/articles/revised-leed-resilient-design-pilot-credits-now-available

NOAA's US Climate Resilience Toolkit

NOAA's US Climate Resilience Toolkit

NOAA's US Climate Resilience Toolkit

 "The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit is an application that provides simple visualization and data export of weather and climatological data archived at NCDC."


https://toolkit.climate.gov

IBHS's Fortified Commercial

NOAA's US Climate Resilience Toolkit

IBHS's Fortified Commercial

"FORTIFIED Commercial™ is a voluntary superior building resilience standard, compliance process, and designation program created by the Institute for Business & Home Safety to make new and existing commercial buildings stronger against severe weather, including hurricanes and high wind."

https://www.fortifiedhome.org/fortified-commercial/


GBCI's RELi Rating System

AIA's Resilience Initiative

IBHS's Fortified Commercial

 "RELi is a resilience-specific rating system similar in structure to LEED that offers GBCI certification based on a system of points and prerequisites organized according to eight categories. About 20 percent of its substance overlaps with LEED, with a strong emphasis on social cohesion and vitality."   

https://www.usgbc.org/sites/default/files/RELi_Dec_2018-FINAL.pdf

AIA's Resilience Initiative

AIA's Resilience Initiative

AIA's Resilience Initiative

 "Resilience requires a multidisciplinary, systems-based design approach to addressing the social, economic, and environmental shocks and stresses to achieve sustainable, resilient, and adaptable communities.  Draw upon the following resources for terminology, principals, and methods to incorporate risk awareness, hazard mitigation, and climate adaptation." 

 https://www.aia.org/landing-pages/6456551-resilience

AIA+2030 Series

AIA's Resilience Initiative

AIA's Resilience Initiative

"The AIA 2030 Commitment provides an actionable framework for architects and designers to meet the 2030 Challenge goals of carbon neutral buildings by 2030. This series will inspire architects to meet the 2030 goals through design strategies, efficient technologies and systems, and renewable energy resources." 

Certificate of completion available. 

 

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