A Resilience Roadmap for Commercial Buildings
Each resource in the roadmap discusses a key issue in measuring, managing, and mitigating resilience risk. You can start at the beginning and continue on to the fifth and final resource or browse at your discretion.
1. Building the Financial Business Case for Resilience
This fact sheet introduces the Resilience Roadmap and reviews key concepts including the challenges of resilience, understanding and measuring risk, and how to quantify and articulate the financial business case for resilience improvements.
2. Managing Insurance Cost and Business Risk
This fact sheet discusses the role that the insurance industry plays in mitigating resilience risk and offers best practices for building owners to work effectively with insurers.
3. Financing and Implementing Resilience Projects
This fact sheet discusses implementing resilience improvements across a commercial building portfolio and evaluating financing options that can help overcome upfront costs and other common barriers to resilience.
4. Benchmarking and Disclosing Resilience Performance
This fact sheet provides an overview of common trends and barriers related to disclosure of climate and resilience performance. It reviews how each of the major reporting frameworks treats resilience, compares these frameworks against each other, and provides insight on where to begin.
5. Creating a Resilience Risk Management Plan
This fact sheet pulls together the content from the Resilience Roadmap into actionable planning steps in an outline format.
Additional Finance and Resilience Resources
Finance + Resilience Initiative Part 1: Building the Financial Business Case for Resilience
Part 1 of this 2-week mini-series highlighted how commercial building owners can build the financial case for resilience, best practices for measuring financial risk, and strategies for managing insurance cost and business risk.
Finance + Resilience Initiative Part 2: Taking Action to Improve Resilience & Disclose Performance
Part 2 of this 2-week mini-series focused on different mechanisms for financing resilience projects, reporting frameworks for disclosing resilience performance, and pulling everything into a resilience risk management plan.