Structural safety

This study evaluates the quality of materials in reinforced concrete buildings and their compliance with relevant legislation and earthquake codes.

This news story highlights how UN-supported disaster shelters in Palau are strengthening community resilience to climate hazards by providing safe refuges and enhancing preparedness.

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) can help countries integrate climate risk systematically into infrastructure policy, financing, and asset management by strengthening institutions and supporting policy reforms.

Once considered a luxury, air conditioning has become an essential safeguard for nursing home residents. A Ontario-based study published in JAMA Internal Medicine underscores the heightened mortality risk associated with extreme heat in nursing homes.

A row of homes in a village in south Wales is to be bought by a local authority and demolished as they can no longer be protected from flooding caused by the climate crisis.

After 1951, the SLF stepped up its research into avalanche protection. The findings led to a move away from walls, the usual defence mechanism until then, towards the snow bridges and snow nets that remain common today.

To make disaster management in Bangladesh more people-sensitive and responsive, greater emphasis is needed on community-centred and inclusive approaches rather than a predominantly top-down system.

In this article, the authors assess the challenges and opportunities for reducing climate impacts on housing within U.S. coastal communities, based on 64 interviews with experts across housing-relevant public, private, and nonprofit sectors.