Sustainability + Resilience
In early 2015, the Center began work on a research project analyzing the relationship between sustainability and resilience at the scale of the single family house. Specifically, the Center analyzed a home in Ocean City, NJ that had been damaged in Super Storm Sandy and recently rebuilt. The study analyzed whether the repairs implemented would qualify the home for both Energy Star certification (a measure of its sustainability) and for Fortified Home designation (a measure of its resilience). The study was a first step in what the Center hopes will be a broader set of analyzes to assess the degree to which energy conservation measures can result in improved resilience and vice versa.
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