New York City Task Force Convened to Respond to Superstorm Sandy
Superstorm Sandy took a major toll on New York City, but if a newly created task force succeeds, the impact of future such events should be lessened. At the request of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Urban Green Council (New York City’s chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council) has convened a special Building Resiliency Task Force to take an in-depth look at how to better prepare the city’s buildings for future storms and infrastructure failures. The Task Force is comprised of four committees and three working groups. The committees are Commercial...
Read MoreNice post about RDI at GLUMAC
Resilient design is scalable. It applies to individual building systems as well as to districts, cities and regions. Like sustainable design, resilient design can be best defined by a desired outcome rather than by a set of design strategies or features. — From an excellent post about resilient design by the global engineering firm GLUMAC, which included a nice mention of Resilient Design Institute.
Read MoreRDI discussed at Greenbuild
EcoHome Magazine reports on Alex Wilsons talk about RDI at the Vision 2020 session at Greenbuild
Read MoreRDI intro at Environmental Building News
Alex Wilson introduced RDI at Environmental Building News: For the past seven years—ever since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast—I have devoted considerable time to the related ideas of resilience and passive survivability. I have increasingly come to believe that resilience can become a leading driver of sustainability, and I’m thrilled that BuildingGreen has helped launch the nonprofit Resilient Design Institute to advance these ideas…...
Read MoreFundamentals of Resilient Design #1: Making the Case
I thought a lot about resilience last year, during a six-week sabbatical bike ride through the Southwest. I covered a little over 1,900 miles, most of it over land that hadn’t seen a drop of rain since the previous fall; some of those areas—mostly in Texas—still hadn’t received significant precipitation months after my return home.
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