ARTICLE : An Overview of Resilient Construction (Architecture and Building Regulations)

Earth Day may be as good an occasion as any to raise awareness of the powers of nature and what it takes to withstand them or be resilient. With the growing popularity of the term resilience, the scope of its usage becomes ever broader. The same happened to the term “sustainability.” Now resilience is even bigger than sustainability. To be sustainable, architecture has to be resilient, the thinking goes....