Structural safety

Climate change and energy costs mean we need to rethink how we design and build our homes. The updated National Construction Code has lifted the required energy performance of new housing from 6 stars to 7 stars (10 stars being the best).

This report introduces a simplified method for the assessment of the combined seismic and energy retrofit of buildings, along with their environmental performance, in a life-cycle perspective by achieving a global assessment result in economic terms.

This Compendium Volume presents a series of guidance notes and more detailed complementary technical notes that offer practical insights in support of enhancing the climate resilience of infrastructure investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A research team attempted, for the first time, to quantify the value of U.S. property at risk in forested areas exposed to increased wildfire and tree mortality associated with climate stresses and beetle infestation.

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that new housing construction in flood-prone areas has contributed to increasing risk across North Carolina despite community and government efforts to reduce floods.

Amid a fire season that has seen a record number of blazes, wildfires and poor air quality are top-of-mind concerns for commercial property developers, industry insiders say.

This case study looks closer at a Colorado house, certified by Wildfire Partners, which avoided burning in 2016 by wildfire.

Since 2017, 57 schools have been built by the Turkish Ministry of National Education to be safer and more resilient to disaster, with support from the World Bank, GFDRR and the EU.