The Winds of Change Are Blowing:
Resilience Trends in Commercial Real Estate
Wednesday, May 9, 2024 | 9:00-9:30am | Virtual
The increasing frequency and severity of natural hazards is elevating physical and financial risks to commercial real estate assets and pose health and safety risks to the occupants of those buildings. New disclosure rules by the SEC and State of California are designed to acknowledge these risks, increase transparency for investors, and encourage risk mitigation. Identifying, prioritizing, and implementing resilience solutions that provide cost effective risk mitigation for assets starts with conducting a property resilience assessment. This session will introduce the growing practice of property resilience assessment, and how to use it to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities, while improving the resilience and performance of new and existing buildings.
PRESENTERS:
Alan Scott, FAIA, LEED Fellow, CEM, WELL AP
Director of Sustainability, Intertek Building Science Solutions
Alan is a registered architect and sustainability practitioner with over 35 years of experience as a facilitator, consultant, and teacher in support of high-performance, sustainable, resilient built environment projects. He has presented at dozens of conferences, workshops and webinars on three continents. Alan currently serves as Vice-chair of the USGBC Resilience Working Group, and as a member of the AIA Resilience and Adaptation Advisory Group, and the USGBC LEED Environmental Quality Technical Advisory Group.
Albert Slap
President, Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC
Albert is the President and Co-Founder of Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC, developer of RiskFootprint™, the first software-as-a-service to provide property owners with online flood, natural hazard, and climate risk assessments. In addition to its RiskFootprint™ Hazard Assessment, Albert and his team also provide resilience advisory services to property owners to make their buildings safer and more resilient in a changing climate. He is also a nationally recognized environmental attorney and law professor.