Sustainable: Resiliency is next stage for building design | Finance & Commerce
The result of his work is “RELi,” a new ratings system in a pilot
stage that incorporates other certification standards while adding in
resiliency measures. Two of the certification programs are based in
Washington, D.C. — the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design and the Institute for Sustainable
Infrastructure’s Envision program.
Some ideas were pulled from Minnesota’s own SB 2030 Energy Standard and the Living Green Challenge.
The RELi “Resiliency Action” list Pierce created has more than 200
actions, many from LEED and Envision. About 60 actions focus on
resiliency, in particular hazard preparedness and hazard mitigation.
RELi’s guidelines are available at c3livingdesign.org, the C3 Living Design Project,
which describes the program in great detail. Mike Italiano, CEO of
Capital Markets and founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, said the
impact of global warming is already being taken into account by the
insurance industry and financial institutions. They want to support and
invest in more sustainable communities that can withstand increasingly
unpredictable and dangerous weather.
The idea behind RELi is to provide architects and builders with
guidelines to follow that are not imposed by the government yet allow
communities to better cope with potential disasters.
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