Structural safety

The authors provide a methodology that quantifies physical risks on geolocalized productive assets, considering their exposure to chronic and acute impacts (hurricanes) across the scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

As the topic of a climate-resilient built environment is not specifically encompassed by any single EU policy file, this publication argues that consistency between adaptation and buildings policy could be boosted by a European Commission-led EU strategy.

Over 1 billion lack reliable, safe, and affordable basic needs such as basic housing, running water, electricity, and sanitation. However, providing access to decent housing can improve their resilience to climate change.

The growing threat of tornadoes in US eastern states has prompted calls for better preparedness, and in particular the need for more storm shelters.

When a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Cianjur district in Indonesia’s West Java province in November 2022, more than 13,000 students at private religious schools were thrown out of their classrooms because of severe damage to their buildings.

In this game users learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education save lives.

Across the Asia Pacific, region infrastructure and homes are rising up in seismically sensitive areas with governments seemingly reluctant to enforce safety codes for fear of slowing down development activity.

The study provides assessment of the penetration of climate change induced carbonation in the concrete cover of the existing buildings in the EU Member States.