RiskFootprint™ Enhances Hazard and Climate Assessment Technology with Cutting-Edge USGS Landslide and WRI Water Stress Models
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?
In this episode of Peak Property Performance, Bill Douglas and Drew Hall sit down with Albert J Slap, Founder & CEO of Risk Footprint, to break down how operators can improve risk visibility and proactive portfolio protection.
This video podcast explains to residential homebuyers and buyer-side realtors the enormous due diligence value of the online RiskFootprint™ hazard/climate report. The $200 RiskFootprint™ report is an essential part of due diligence, providing comprehensive risk assessments superior to limited scores offered by online residential real estate platforms.
RiskFootprint™ Releases Version 18, Restoring FEMA’s Discontinued National Risk Index Loss Data and Setting a New Standard for Property-Level Climate and Hazard Intelligence.
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.
As is prudent, owners/investors need to determine if there may be a positive ROI or Benefit/Cost in resilient retrofits. ROIs may include damage prevention, fewer business interruptions, greater tenant satisfaction, maintaining market values, and, last but not least, insurance premium lowering or stabilization in the future
In this episode: Albert Slap, President of RiskFootprint, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss why physical climate risk is becoming increasingly important for property owners, investors, lenders, insurers, and businesses with physical assets.
Commercial Loan Underwriters and Credit Officers will benefit from using the new ASTM International’s Property Resilience Assessment Stage One and the RiskFootprint(tm) Hazard/Climate Risk Assessment. RiskFootprint(tm) completely satisfies ASTM PRA Stage One.
The commercial real estate industry is reaching a tipping point as climate risk data becomes more accessible, yet most transactions continue to overlook its importance.
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
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Excited to share a video highlighting how the RiskFootprint™ hazard/climate assessment utilizes extensive data and modeling from FEMA’s National Risk Index and Hazus Damage/Loss software. Discover how this tool empowers informed decisions for resilience and supports the implementation of the new ASTM Property Resilience Assessment.
As groundwater levels creep upward and traditional drainage systems become overwhelmed, the Florida Department of Transportation is working on new climate-resilient infrastructure projects designed to protect one of the region’s busiest coastal roads.
Commercial real estate lenders need to better understand the impacts of natural hazards and extreme weather on the appraised value of properties.
When Hurricane Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast in 2022, it put two hotels operated by the same REIT out of commission for nearly a year. Recovery took twelve months and cost far more than the insurance payouts.
The ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Standard and RiskFootprint™ Podcast
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Purpose of the Six Step process – The B-ResilientTM Six Step Process provides large building owners with a disciplined system to manage their core assets from initial assessment and regulatory reporting on to needed resilient retrofit and even certification of completion.
Every building faces risks from natural hazards — but understanding how much risk is the first step to protecting investments and strengthening resilience.
Owners, operators, and investors in commercial real estate need detailed information about exposures to natural hazards and extreme weather, building vulnerability, value-at-risk, and feasible resilience measures and costs to determine the ROI of resilient retrofits. RiskFootprint(tm) has the answers you need.
This video focuses on: Integrating climate resilience into building design and operations Enhancing ESG performance through sustainable infrastructure\ Reducing climate risk while improving operational continuity Advancing regenerative design for long-term business...
A Practical and Effective Process for Implementing the New ASTM Property Resilience Assessment Standard (E 3429-24)
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
This video podcast is focused on the evolving legal liabilities facing due diligence professionals, such as architects and engineers, regarding physical property risks. Modern courts and regulators now view hazards like flooding and wildfires as foreseeable and...
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
Commercial lenders need to better understand the risks of natural hazards and extreme weather in their loan underwriting and credit processes. RiskFootprint(tm) and the ASTM’s Property Resilience Assessment process will help.
The epic flood in Venice in 2018 is but the latest reminder of the systemic changes needed across the board and around the world, including a new social contract. Albert Slap went from meeting to meeting last week as if in a crusade. Well, not as if. I stand...
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.
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
This article explains that many regional banks and underwriters still treat commercial property net operating income as stable, ignoring the reality that a major wind or flood event can render a property unproductive for extended periods. Tools like FEMA’s Hazus model...
Most hazard and climate risk vendors stop at “assessment to reporting.” They deliver data, maps, and scores—but leave stakeholders stranded at the decision-making threshold. RiskFootprintTM solves this problem by bridging the gap between exposure data and actionable insight, empowering commercial real estate (CRE) professionals to make better informed “go/no-go” decisions on resilience retrofits.
This video podcast outlines the urgent necessity for U.S. schools to address severe and growing risks associated with floods, natural hazards, extreme weather and climate change. It uses harrowing examples, such as the Lahaina wildfire and Hurricane Katrina, to illustrate how widespread destruction of school facilities leads to massive learning loss and community trauma.
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
The Real Estate Roundtable and Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC) recently shared these helpful summaries
Recent analysis highlights that traditional underwriting assumptions about stable net operating income in coastal commercial real estate are increasingly untenable as natural hazards escalate. According to risk expert Albert Slap, severe weather events such as...
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Mr. Albert J. Slap (Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC) introduces RiskFootprint, a breakthrough SaaS technology delivering site-specific, physical #hazard and climate vulnerability insights for commercial realestate and lending, insurance advisory, government buildings, and critical infrastructure.
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
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
A structured approach for asset hardening in commercial real estate is no longer optional given the escalation of natural hazard disasters and climate volatility. This framework centers on the three stages of the ASTM Property Resilience Assessment (PRA), which begins...
This video podcast details a structured, annual maintenance plan for commercial real estate designed to enhance and preserve a building’s safety and resilience, emphasizing that resilience is a continuous process rather than a final state.
A Comparative Analysis and Sector-Specific Recommendations. Microsoft Copilot was used to help synthesize vendor landscape information, structure comparative frameworks, and draft sector-specific recommendations.
