Multi-hazard resilient buildings and low-carbon solutions for a future-proof built environment

Multi-hazard resilient buildings and low-carbon solutions for a future-proof built environment Simona Bianchi and Mauro Overend from Delft University of Technology explain why multi-disciplinary approaches are key to creating safer, eco-friendly, and resilient buildings that protect urban communities and ensure long-term sustainability. The built environment is ill-prepared for more frequent and increasingly intense climate-related extremes, resulting in severe economic losses and public health risks. Recent scientific and technological advances provide solutions to improve building resilience to specific risks, but they are often costly, rarely eco-friendly, and almost never address the multiple hazards present in many locations. This is hardly surprising because there is neither a clearly defined framework for quantifying the climate resilience of buildings nor tools to support the selection of optimal solutions for real-world multi-hazard scenarios.