Building Resilience

Buildings Resilience – Updated Information Sheet Available

May 17, 2018

The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, CSHub recently released a new information sheet which discusses building resilience and a CSHub-developed life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) approach that offers building designers and owners a way to make better risk-informed decisions up front.

Natural disasters cause billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure every year. Factoring resilience into building design can help reduce lifetime repair and maintenance costs in hazard-prone areas and allow communities to recover more quickly from a disaster.

Click the image or link below to download an information sheet which discusses building resilience and a CSHub-developed life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) approach that offers building designers and owners a way to make better risk-informed decisions up front.

Download the info sheet, and find a link to related infographics, here.

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