Coastal Risk News & Press
Meeting the Moment: How the New ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Standard Aligns the Needs of Commercial Real Estate and Insurers in a Changing Climate
What do commercial real estate owners and their insurers need in the face of climate-driven risk and increasing insured losses—and how does the new ASTM Property Resilience Assessment (E3429-24) meet those needs?
“RiskFootprint™ Provides What is Needed to Comply with LEED v5 Climate Resilience Assessment
In April 2025, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) ushered in LEED v5, a transformative update to its green building rating system. For the first time, climate resilience is not just an optional add-on – it’s a core requirement
Comparing Hazus-Based Value-at-Risk and Climate Value-at-Risk in Resilience Planning
Resilience planning for buildings and infrastructure increasingly relies on quantitative risk assessments to guide investment in mitigation and adaptation. Value-at-Risk (VAR) frameworks have emerged as key tools for estimating potential losses from natural hazards.
The RiskFootprint™ Approach to Achieving Property Resilience
A Practical and Effective Process for Implementing the New ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Standard (E 3429-24)
The ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Standard and RiskFootprint™ Podcast
The ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Standard and RiskFootprint™ Podcast
Use of Flood Risk Data and Modeling in Commercial Loan Underwriting and How This May Evolve with Promulgation of the ASTM Property Resilience Assessment (PRA)
With the new ASTM Property Resilience Assessment (PRA) “best practice”, commercial lenders will now be exposed to property-specific, flood mapping covering many more types of flooding than FEMA flood maps provide, over wider areas of the US, and in much greater levels of detail
Uncovered — The 30-Year Mortgage Wasn’t Designed for Climate Chaos as House-demolishing, Weather Becomes Increasingly Common, More Americans Will Find Themselves Without a Safety Net.
It sounded like artillery, an infiltration of a quiet suburban community in the dead of night, as Kevin Pelley stood in the dark in what was left of his yard on a bank of the Puyallup River. A combat Army veteran who served in Kuwait and Iraq
RiskFootprint™ Enhances Hazard and Climate Assessment Technology with Cutting-Edge USGS Landslide and WRI Water Stress Models
RiskFootprint™ Enhances Hazard and Climate Assessment Technology with Cutting-Edge USGS Landslide and WRI Water Stress Models
Resilience Standards and the Business of Risk
A new guide is just one example of the work being done to help real estate stakeholders deal with the increased risk posed by extreme weather.
EBA Journal: Summer 2024 Edition
The forthcoming ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Guide provides an overview of a generalized, systematic approach for conducting a Property Resilience Assessment (PRA) consisting of, first, identifying the natural hazards likely to affect a property; next, evaluating the risks posed by those hazards along with the capacity of the property to prepare for, adapt to, withstand and recover from those hazards; and then finally, identifying conceptual resilience measures to enhance property-level performance and recovery.
EBA ESG Webinar: Physical Climate Risk Screenings: Tackling Stage 1 of the Property Resilience
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RiskFootprint™ Announces Enhancements to Further Elevate Water Risk Intelligence
BOCA RATON, FL, UNITED STATES, May 6, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -RiskFootprint™, a leading provider of flood, natural hazard, extreme weather, and climate change risk assessment solutions
Miami Shores Press Release
Coastal Risk Consulting, a leading, Floridabased climate risk assessment firm, has been selected to update the Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment for the Miami Shores Village in Miami-Dade County, Florida
FEMA is Making an Example of this Florida Boomtown. Locals Call it ‘Revenge Politics.
When U.S. homeowners buy subsidized flood insurance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, they make a commitment to build back better after flood disasters, even if it costs them
Exploring the Physical Risk Component of the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rules
The Real Estate Roundtable and Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) recently shared these helpful summaries
Investing in Your Company’s Physical Risk Resilience
Extreme weather events, infrastructure and technology failures, and transportation accidents are on the rise globally. These physical threats often have cascading effects that reach all areas of a business. Organizational resilience, or the ability to anticipate, absorb, and recover from hazardous events, is now table stakes
The New Property Resilience Assessment (PRA)
The Property Resilience Assessment (PRA) creates a standardized way of communicating the hazards and vulnerabilities that may affect a commercial, industrial, or multi-family building and helps identify resilience measures to improve its performance