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Building Resilience
Martin Townsend – Director of BREEAM
BRE Global
July 2013
Part of the BRE Trust
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So what is resilience…… ?
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re·sil·ience n.
1. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
2. The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent,
stretched, or compressed; elasticity.
resilience n
1. Also called resiliency the state or quality of being resilient
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Environmental Science) Ecology the ability of an ecosystem to
return to its original state after being disturbed
3. (Physics / General Physics) Physics the amount of potential energy stored in an elastic material when
deformed
a·dapt·a·ble adj.
Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
Resilience is the ability of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically, and release that
energy upon unloading. Proof resilience is defined as the maximum energy that can be absorbed within
the elastic limit, without creating a permanent distortion. The modulus of resilience is defined as the
maximum energy that can be absorbed per unit volume without creating a permanent distortion. It can be
calculated by integrating the stress-strain curve from zero to the elastic limit. In uniaxial tension,
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4.0
Failure of climate change adaptation
Environmental
Water Resources
Rising
Persistent
Greenhouse
Extreme
Gas emissions
weather
Impact (if the risk were to occur)
Irremediable pollution
Land and waterway
Use mismanagement
Floodplain Management
3.5
Unprecedented
Geophysical
destruction
Overheating
Mismanaged urbanization
Species overexploitation
3.0
2.5
Vulnerable to
geomagnetic
storms
3.0
3.5
Likelihood (to occur in the next ten years
4.0
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Impact if the risk were to occur
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Likelihood to occur in the next ten years
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Ranking
Risk changes over time
Time
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From a BREEAM perspective
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Need to consider how we manage this in two respects
Man-made Hazards: To minimise the risks arising from man-made hazards.
Natural Hazards: To minimise the risks arising from natural hazards.
For New Construction the specific requirements are:
Engagement
The Asset is designed & specified following consultation with identified parties/Stakeholders to ensure the
Asset is appropriate for use by all potential users.
Inclusivity
The Asset is designed & specified following consultation and investigation to ensure the development is
accessible to all potential users.
Adaptability
The Asset is designed & specified to maximise the potential for adaptation to future demands including
those resulting from climate change, changes in functionality and change of use
With the level of resilience is how we set our sustainability measures/benchmarks.
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At a credit level
Credit - ‘Hea 07 Hazards’ aims to reduce or negate the impacts of natural hazards on the
building (requires risk assessment demonstration of mitigation measures) with weighting of
issue is adjusted to reflect importance of the issue in the country in question
BREEAM Communities - Deals with flood risk assessment at earlier stage of development,
Credit - ‘SE10 Adapting to climate change‘ considers Increased temperatures, flood risk,
weather volatility, impact on water resources, changes in ground conditions Goes beyond
environmental and considers economic / social risks i.e. employment
BREEAM 2014
Looking into design resilience, particularly:
Updating the thermal comfort issue to take account of predicted temperature increases
Probably others in a similar vein
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Resilience in fragile
Environments
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Sustainability in fragile environments project overview
Aim
• To promote holistic sustainable approaches to relief, recovery
and reconstruction in the shelter and settlement operations
after a natural disaster.
Objectives
• To provide guidance
• To promote sustainable approaches
• To provide a coordinated sustainable framework
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Development Approach
• Field and desk research
• Consultation with relevant stakeholders both strategically and technically
• Drawing on BRE Trust - BREEAM experience in developing environmental and
sustainability assessment methods both UK and internationally
• Peer review by end users
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Main Outputs
• An evaluation matrix tool covering key sustainability impacts and associated guidance.
• Training module for field operatives, including an online e-learning tutorial.
• BRE Trust publication on the development and outputs of the tool.
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Closing Comment
Resilience is also very dependent on scale !
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New Jobs
New Products
Cost Return
Town
Ownership
Resilience changes at scale
Region
Neighbourhood
Street or site
Home/
Building
Products to services
Opportunities change with scale
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Questions
An introduction to the next speaker
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The Thames Barrier at it’s resilient best