CI-v5 IPp1: Climate Resilience Assessment Required
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© Copyright U.S. Green Building Council, Inc. All rights reserved.
Intent
To promote comprehensive assessment of observed, projected, and future natural hazards for climate resilience, aiming to increase awareness of hazards, increase transparency of risks, reduce vulnerabilities, and ensure long-term safety and sustainability.
Requirements
Complete a climate and natural hazard assessment.
As part of the assessment, identify observed, projected, and future natural hazards that could potentially affect the project site and building function. Address site-specific natural hazards, including, but not limited to, drought, extreme heat, extreme cold, flooding, hurricanes and high winds, hail, landslides, sea level rise and storm surge, tornadoes, tsunamis, wildfires and smoke, winter storms, and other relevant hazards.
Identify two priority hazards, at minimum, to address through proposed design strategies. For each priority hazard, the project team must assess and specify the following:
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario used, specifying the shared socioeconomic pathways
- Projected service life of the LEED project (e.g., fiscal year 2050 or 100 years)
- Hazard level
- Hazard risk rating
- Exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, vulnerability, and overall risk levels
- Potential impact on the project site and building function
- Potential impact on the project site during construction
Where possible, use the information from the assessment to inform the planning, design, and operations and maintenance of the project and describe how project-specific strategies were considered.
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Credit language
© Copyright U.S. Green Building Council, Inc. All rights reserved.
Intent
To promote comprehensive assessment of observed, projected, and future natural hazards for climate resilience, aiming to increase awareness of hazards, increase transparency of risks, reduce vulnerabilities, and ensure long-term safety and sustainability.
Requirements
Complete a climate and natural hazard assessment.
As part of the assessment, identify observed, projected, and future natural hazards that could potentially affect the project site and building function. Address site-specific natural hazards, including, but not limited to, drought, extreme heat, extreme cold, flooding, hurricanes and high winds, hail, landslides, sea level rise and storm surge, tornadoes, tsunamis, wildfires and smoke, winter storms, and other relevant hazards.
Identify two priority hazards, at minimum, to address through proposed design strategies. For each priority hazard, the project team must assess and specify the following:
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emissions scenario used, specifying the shared socioeconomic pathways
- Projected service life of the LEED project (e.g., fiscal year 2050 or 100 years)
- Hazard level
- Hazard risk rating
- Exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, vulnerability, and overall risk levels
- Potential impact on the project site and building function
- Potential impact on the project site during construction
Where possible, use the information from the assessment to inform the planning, design, and operations and maintenance of the project and describe how project-specific strategies were considered.
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