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.
Building Resilience
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.
In the closing hours of a highly successful 2024 Annual Summit, the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) Delegate Council elected three new leaders to join its executive board, which includes a president and four vice presidents – two from the U.S. and two from Canada.