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JP Jaudel

Boston Looking to Boost Resilience for Existing Buildings
By JP Jaudel on 01 Nov 2013 • openbook 2 minute read
Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States with an incredibly diverse existing building stock and interesting opportunities and challenges for improving preparedness to climate change. Beyond building new to enhance resilience, older cities are left with …
Boston's adaptation strategy should be widely applicable to buildings of different types and ages.
JP Jaudel

LEED-ing on Climate Resilience
By JP Jaudel on 17 Oct 2013 • openbook 2 minute read
Changing climate puts the health, safety, and performance of buildings at risk.  Rising temperatures undermine the assumptions used to design the envelopes and HVAC systems in homes and commercial buildings.  Rising sea levels increase risks of flooding for coastal as …
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Adele Houghton

Introducing the Climate + Health Resilience Collections on GBIG
By Adele Houghton on 26 Sep 2013 • openbook 4 minute read
Extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods do not affect everyone equally. Some populations are more at risk than others of disease, injury, and death because of the unique combination of social, economic, demographic, and environmental characteristics of the …
Number of LEED Certified Projects in Travis County (2001-2012) Overlaid on Austin Heat Vulnerability Index
Sean McMahon

Building Resiliency for New York
By Sean McMahon on 31 Jul 2013 • openbook 2 minute read
Earlier this month the NYC Building Resilience Task Force, led by Urban Green (USGBC's local chapter in New York), released its full report detailing more than 30 practical proposals to increase the resiliency of the city's buildings to extreme weather events. The task …
Flooded streets in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy