Disaster Resistance and Resiliency
Proficiency Level 1: Remember
List the four fundamental principles of resistance for all-hazard building design.
List the three key features of resilience in infrastructures.
Proficiency Level 2: Understand
Explain how the four key principles of building resistance and the three key features of infrastructure resilience are applied to protect buildings from disasters.
Explain why building codes and industry standards are at the core of (essential to) effective disaster resistant and resilient building.
Proficiency Level 3: Apply
Identify and explain the role of 3 building-related stakeholders that are affected in a natural disaster.
Applying relevant building codes, demonstrate in writing how a residential building meets resistance and resiliency specifications for one type of natural disaster for your climate zone and local area.
Proficiency Level 4: Analyze
Analyze and then provide specific examples in writing to demonstrate how applied building science has been used to make buildings more disaster resistant and resilient than traditional building practices.
Analyze and summarize in writing with one specific example how disaster resistant and resilient design can also be energy-efficient design, and as a result, cost efficient over time.
