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New Free Tool Helps Apply LEED v4 to Optimize Climate Resilience

By Evan Bowechop on 16 Nov 2015 • 1 minute read

In a world with a changing climate, building designers, developers, investors, and entire communities are increasingly exposed to risks that cannot be navigated by referencing historic conditions alone. This is the central challenge that is explored in a 2011 research p …

4 Ways to Pitch a Smarter Built Environment

By Christopher Wedding, PhD on 19 Mar 2015 • 2 minute read

Smarter buildings and communities start with smarter marketing and communications. Which words do you choose – smart, green, profitable, eco, resilient, healthy, clean, high tech, cool, secure, fun? Whether we like it or not, we are all in sales and this kind of messa …

CCAP’s Adaptation + Mitigation Formula for Green Building

By JP Jaudel on 07 May 2014 • 1 minute read

How can our buildings be designed to limit energy, water, and land use but also be built to withstand our growing extreme climates? Last month, The Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) held a Green Resilience: Climate Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies Meeting to discuss t …

LEED-ing on Climate Resilience

By JP Jaudel on 17 Oct 2013 • 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 …

Introducing the Climate + Health Resilience Collections on GBIG

By Adele Houghton on 26 Sep 2013 • 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 …