Climate Resilience Template for Buildings serves as a guide for commercial real estate property owners and managers to help prepare their individual facilities for climate change.

Climate Resilience Template for Buildings

Creator: Green Ribbon Commission
Type of methodology: Methodological recommendations
Approach type: CVRA (Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment)
Short description: Process-based methodology for resilience planning, based on 9 steps, including CVRA
URL to access information about the tool: https://challenge.abettercity.org/assets/images/FINAL%20Climate%20Resilience%20…
Hazards covered: Precipitations and heavy rains
Audiences: Building owners and occupants
Assessment level: Building
Evaluation system:

Exposure x Vulnerability = Risk

Strengths:
  • Specific to buildings
  • Describes a comprehensive resilience planning process for buildings, incl. steps for a CVRA
Limits:

Focussed on Boston (USA)

The Template outlines a typical resilience planning process that includes 9 steps.

Steps 2 to 4 are relevant for CVRA:

  • Step 2. Identify climate risks that are relevant to the property.
  • Step 3. Establish a property baseline to ensure all team members understand the building’s characteristics and assets.
  • Step 4. Conduct a vulnerability analysis to determine the exposure and sensitivity of building assets to climate impacts, as well as the likelihood and magnitude of the risk posed to the property. This includes:
    • Determining exposure of each building asset
    • Determining vulnerability of each building asset
    • Determining risks