Your building’s resilience
Organisations need to understand what resilience means for the buildings they inhabit or own. Here are some of the issues for an organisation to consider as it works through the challenges ahead.
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Organisations need to understand what resilience means for the buildings they inhabit or own. Here are some of the issues for an organisation to consider as it works through the challenges ahead.
The Canterbury earthquakes have firmly placed building resilience in the spotlight. As an industry, we did not perform as well as the public expected – how can we do better in the future?
As the focus turns to improving resilience, BRANZ has assessed the costs of some common measures to make houses more resilient.
A current BRANZ research project is studying the economic benefit of designing buildings for increased resilience under seismic loading throughout their entire life cycle.
The global weather forecast is daunting, and earthquakes are a regular event. With insurance costs already climbing, we badly need buildings that can stand up to the forces of nature.
New seismic-resistant building design developed in New Zealand and worldwide over the last decade is at the forefront of the Christchurch rebuild, as these case studies illustrate.
Resilience was the 2013 buzzword, and 2014 will see a continued focus on how to make individuals, communities, buildings and infrastructure more resilient. But what does resilience mean?
BRANZ is working with an Australian organisation on a building resilience project. Its outcome will be a rating tool that ranks building materials resilience on a scale of 1–5.
Buildings with insufficient seismic strength are key contributors to deaths and building losses. Better information is needed for owners and potential buyers on a property’s seismic risk, a research programme finds.
A research project to help improve the resilience of the types of homes that performed poorly in the Christchurch earthquakes has been launched.