Tag Archives: adaptation
Adaptation to Climate Change through Building Regulation
The aim of this article, Adaptation to Climate Change through Building Regulation, is to provide an overview of the climate change related threats to the built environment; how current building regulations deal with climate risk; and how building regulations could be applied or amended to address climate change. Climate plays an integral role in our [...]
A Cross-Disciplinary Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings (awarded best paper at SB07 Sustainable Building Conference)
Robust scientific projections show that climate change will significantly affect the New Zealand built environment. Major impacts are expected from inland and coastal flooding, building overheating, and increased occurrence of droughts and fire risk in the eastern parts of the country. It is essential that the climate-change planning process starts now, given the longevity of [...]
An Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings in New Zealand to the Impacts of Climate Change
The scientific evidence is very strong: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response. The objective of this report is to assess the need to adapt houses in New Zealand to climate change. Our assessment is based on medium-low and medium-high climate change scenarios from research by NIWA. To [...]
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