Resilience

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Building resilience

1 October 2016, Build 156

Mike Mendonça, Chief Resilience Officer, Wellington City Council, leads the city’s efforts to adapt to climate change and prepare for natural disasters.

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Building compliant cities

By Dael Climo 1 June 2016, Build 154

Poorer countries bear the brunt of natural disasters. Now, a World Bank report has laid the groundwork for using the intellectual knowledge of developed countries to develop building regulations in places that need them.

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The challenge

By Dael Climo 1 April 2016, Build 153, Feature article

Leading thinkers from science and government have joined forces to start developing ways to manage the risk to our built environment and communities from natural hazards.

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Climate change housing costs

By Ian Page 1 October 2016, Build 156, Feature article

BRANZ has been looking at the cost of building in measures to future-proof housing against climate change. The questions are, what do we need to do and what is the extra cost?

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Preparing for natural hazards

By Ian Page 1 April 2016, Build 153, Feature article

BRANZ has done a lot of work on the costs and benefits of mitigating common natural hazards in housing. While some options are cost-effective, others hardly justify the expenditure.

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