How can you navigate delicate but essential conversations with clients about resilience, natural hazards, and climate change? Find out in this interactive session.
Using AIA resources and real-world scenarios, you'll learn how to introduce hazard risk into early design discussions, frame resilience as a value proposition, and manage client resistance. Through role-play and small-group exercises, you'll also practice strategies for discussing resilience in residential and commercial contexts, including the use of hazard acknowledgement forms.
By blending practical guidance with peer learning, this session will help you strengthen your professional standard of care while advancing safer, more durable, and climate-ready projects.
Learning Objectives
- Evaluate how the architect's evolving standard of care requires informing clients about natural hazard and climate risks that warrant designing beyond minimum codes.
- Discover how to apply strategies for introducing resilience into client conversations during critical project phases.
- Discuss and practice effective responses to client resistance around budget, schedule, and perceived risk.
- Learn how to use AIA tools and resources (e.g., Hazard & Climate Risk Acknowledgement Form, Resilience Design Toolkit) to support resilience-focused design decisions.
- Alan Scott
Director of Sustainability - Intertek Building Science Solutions - Alan Scott
Director of Sustainability - Intertek Building Science Solutions - Nikolaus Remus
Advocacy Engagement Director - AIA Colorado - Julia Donoho
Architect, Attorney, and General Contractor - EQUINOX Design and Development - Alan Scott
Director of Sustainability - Intertek Building Science Solutions