The frequency and severity of natural hazards are increasing, threatening people, properties, and communities. In response, regulators, lenders, and insurers expect resilience in the built environment on top of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As this session will show, assessment of climate and natural hazard risks and vulnerabilities can guide effective investments in resilience to protect communities from devastating losses when hazard events strike. While the architect's standard of care requires us to inform clients about natural hazard and climate risks, as creative team leaders, we're also well-positioned to guide comprehensive, data-driven, and effective resilience solutions.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to find and use resources and data that publish the type and severity of natural hazards and disaster risks that could affect a project site.
- Compare and contrast how building code–based strategies can be used as project resilience solutions and when to turn to other design approaches.
- Consider how community context and constraints inform project resilience needs and collaboration opportunities.
- Evaluate strategies for establishing future disaster risks as a baseline for resilience when historical risk factors may no longer be representative.