Is resilience a key to the future?
Resilience is a way of considering a building's larger impact in unexpected events. Resilience in buildings is no longer an option; it is a necessity.
Resilience - From past to present and to the future
What is resilience? Why, when, historical development
Resilience not only in buildings, infrastructure, energy-resilient cities, climate-resilience? Technological resilience?
Building codes - innovation, resilience and safety via planning, response, recovery, readiness, sustainability
Flexibility, adaptability, integration, robust, resoursful, regenerative
Climate and weather-related, global health-related outbreaks, technological and infrastructure failures and human-caused events
Explore what is resilience, from past to present and future
In the fields of engineering and construction, resilience refers to the ability to absorb or mitigate damage without suffering complete failure. It is an objective of design, maintenance, and restoration for buildings, infrastructure, and communities. It is the ability to respond, absorb, and adapt to, as well as recover from, a disruptive event.
A resilient structure/system/community is expected to be able to withstand an extreme event with minimal damage and functionality disruptions during the event; after the event, it should be able to rapidly recover its functionality similar to or even better than the pre-event level.
Future-proofing and smart-readiness of buildings
High energy performance, comfortable indoor environments and decarbonisation of buildings
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A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes – whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.— Steven F. Hayward, American conservative author