resilience assessment

The paper introduces an approach for assessing the resilience of buildings to both current heat waves and their recurrence in the future under the impact of climate change. The method, applied to the 60,000 dwellings of the RIVP (Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris), the second-largest social landlord in Paris, aims to provide reliable information to enable the buildings’ owner to assess the heat-related health risk for the tenants and the actions to be taken to decrease it.

To achieve future-proof buildings, it is crucial to design buildings and systems that can withstand to shocks (like heat waves and power outages) and reduce the impact of shocks on thermal comfort in a building. This is known as resilience to overheating.