Our firm pursued this credit for a project site in Baltimore, MD. I found that the prerequisite and Option 1 overlap a great deal, especially when they are presented in the same worksheet. In the Hazard Assessment and the Climate Risk Management Planning Analysis, "exposure", "sensitivity", and "vulnerability" for many of the hazards are repeated.
Planning a project to be resilient is extremely important, especially when we are able to look at projections for future risks. This will be an extremely important credit for architecture in the future, so that we are able to design in a adaptive way to address climate change's biggest risks to our built environment.
Aaron Humbert
Architect | Sustainability PMThe Sheward Partnership
November 1, 2023 - 2:28 pm
Marina,
I also noticed some overlap between the different categories that were required for the Hazard Assessment Workbook. Our firm is pursuing this credit for a project site in Mansfield, NJ. This project site is close to the Delaware river. Although it is not in a specific flood zone there are still certain risks with being on 2.25 miles from the river.
I found that while completeing the workbook several of the different sections discuss the topic of flood zones in just different ways but all get to the same point. This could be streamlined into a different format so that things aren't repeating.
Lisa Bolle
December 19, 2023 - 11:22 am
Our team attempted Option 2 Emergency Preparedness Planning, however we were not able to provide signed Red Cross Ready Advance Assessment forms for the design submission. We also found many similarities between the prerequisite requirement and Option 1. Since we had alredy prepared a thorough resilience assessment, we were able to automatically meet the additional requriements of Option 1.