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Displaying 15 of about 64 resultsIt’s time to put the role buildings play in climate change front and center. Though it is now well established that buildings account for over a third of the world’s energy use and carbon emissions, we must remind ourselves that resilience and sustainability must go hand-in-hand.
By the time a building is constructed, over a third of the total ene…
Steady population growth and the accompanying rise in urban density increases the risk to human life and damage to property caused by natural disasters. In 2017, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimated the annual cost of earthquake damage in the United States was US$6.1 billion.
Building codes are not retroactive, which means…
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The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes damaged municipal government office buildings, which was a large obstacle during evacuation and reconstruction. We need to develop technology that enables us to inspect municipal government offices, fire departments and other hub buildings for disaster control activities immediately after an earthquake occurs. The…
Using artificial intelligence to analyze images collected through terrestrial and aerial mapping, the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia, is working to identify homes and neighborhoods that need to be improved. The goal is to have families living in better, greener, safer homes before the next disaster strikes.
This effort, supported by the World Ban…
Could rising seas contribute to undermining coastal buildings around the world?
Some environmental experts link collapse to climate change
Concern could prompt tougher coastal building regulations
Climate-focused regulatory update seen long overdue
NEW YORK - Concerns that rising sea levels and extreme weather may have played a role in the collap…
When you first see the sheer magnitude of destruction where a hurricane made landfall, “there’s usually a take-your-breath-away moment,” says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a structural engineer at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. But Kijewski-Correa and her colleagues catch their breath and begin their work surveying the damage inflicted on buildings a…
Congress appears close to a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal that recognizes the risks of climate change and the need to make America’s coasts more resilient.
On July 28, 2021, a bipartisan group of senators who have been working on the package for weeks announced an agreement on “major issues” of the plan. The Senate later that evening vo…
Despite the higher susceptibility to floods and a growing climate crisis, more than 10% of the world’s population live in low-elevation coastal zones, and that percentage is growing. This column uses a new dataset on the location of housing and flood risk across thousands of kilometres of the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts to present a detailed picture of…
By Yezdani Rahman
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Cyclone Amphan, which caused massive destruction in West Bengal and adjacent areas, intensified rapidly on May 17, 2020 to become a ‘super cyclonic storm’ of category 5. It, however, weakened to category 3 before making a landfall on May 20.
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Transitional shelter, being an incremental process rather than a multi-phased a…
By Merlina Hernando-Malipot
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DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones, during a virtual visit in DepEd Region 1, underscored the importance of looking at details in the building designs before the actual construction.
“Perhaps the building designs need to be improved, so that during calamities such as earthquakes and typhoons, the school buildings are muc…
By Colin Drury
Home owners living in flood risk areas should be given grants to make properties more resilient to submersion, campaigners have said.
Funding should be made available in the same way that government cash is currently available to those wanting to make their homes more environmentally efficient, the Know Your Flood Risk group told The In…
Low groundwater levels caused by drought and land subsidence may result in damage to foundations. New maps in the Climate Impact Atlas now provide a clearer picture of the local risk of damage to wooden pile foundations (pile rot) and the differential settlement of buildings on steel foundations.
The risk of damage depends on the exposure, the probabil…
By Felino A. Palafox
There are 10 manmade and eight natural disasters, and our country is highly vulnerable to these and to the impacts of climate change like sea level rise, stronger typhoons and extreme rainfall, among others. Sadly, these situations are worsened by poor urban planning and construction design practices, making us more disadvanta…
NEW DELHI - The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) late Monday welcomed CDRI Co-Chairs Alok Sharma, COP26 President, and Dr. P.K. Mishra, Principal Secretary to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to launch two initiatives to promote international awareness and networking for greater disaster-resilient infrastructure around th…
State of the art simulations reveal that Vancouver’s tall concrete buildings are especially vulnerable to some types of seismic waves.
By Shi En Kim
If you’ve lived through a serious earthquake and the building you were in emerged relatively unscathed, you may have local building codes to thank. Building codes are construction standards that are guide…