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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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Engineering resilience

By David Hopkins 1 April 2017, Build 159

The poor outcomes for many modern multi-storey buildings in recent earthquakes mean it’s time to change the emphasis beyond life safety to reducing damage says structural engineer David Hopkins.

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Our changing coastline

By Gavin McCleave 1 June 2021, Build 184, Feature article

Researchers in the Coastal programme of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge are developing new techniques to build a detailed understanding of coastal change that will give greater certainty about our changing coastline.

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Becoming resilient

By David Hindley 1 October 2022, Build 192, Feature article

There is more to resilience than just ensuring buildings are better able to cope with floods or earthquakes. It can also be applied to communities and individual businesses. Understanding resilience in all its forms can save time, money and stress for building firms, building owners and the country as a whole.

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Resilient building design

By Roger Shelton 1 April 2014, Build 141, Feature article

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?

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