Flooding in Montréal, and other Canadian cities, is becoming a more frequent occurrence.
Building Resilience
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.
Public green spaces and smart building materials can help cool cities in severe heatwaves.
The fact that our weather patterns are changing is not headline news. The rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events are of growing concern.
Canadians are facing larger disasters on a more frequent basis. There is no doubt that some of these recent and future events are the result of an increasingly unstable climate.