The paper largely serves as a call to action for engineers to continue to press for resilient building design that considers both current and future climate conditions. In the U.S., members of the AEC community have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s environmental dealings, specifically whether it would support the green-building movement, and to what extent.
Under the Obama administration, a host of federal incentives to support the uptake of sustainable design and construction strategies included the incorporation of resilient building codes into projects of the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture and climate-change risk screening for the General Services Administration’s capital investment leasing program.
