Climate change isn't just a buzzword — its effects are becoming more cataclysmic. It is causing deaths, displacements and destruction, even more so in recent years as global temperatures rise.
Building Resilience
Aside from water, concrete is the most-used material in the world, with about 14 billion cubic metres being used every year. Of that, 40% of that is used to build places for people to live.
Flooding in Montréal, and other Canadian cities, is becoming a more frequent occurrence.
As intense heat breaks records around the world, a little-reported fact offers some hope for cooling down cities: Under even the most intense periods of extreme heat, some city blocks never experience heat wave temperatures.
The Building Resilience Coalition, a major sponsor of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region, has achieved major goals in strengthening efforts to raise the level of resiliency in the built environment through a greater emphasis on Disaster Risk Reduction.