Resilient Analytics helps organizations and communities protect against the impacts of climate change. With our proven climate, engineering, and economic model, we help clients understand how climate stressors will impact their infrastructure and people. We provide adaptation investments that are more cost-effective than reactive (i.e., maintenance-only) approaches.
Local, National, and Global Experience
Resilient Analytics has demonstrated through work in over 50 countries and for entities ranging from county governments to international banks that climate change impacts need to be identified and actionable adaptation plans developed. Steps can be taken now to identify vulnerabilities, prioritize critical infrastructure, and serve as a basis for planning the appropriate way to address projected changes and impacts to businesses, the general public, and critical infrastructure.
Identify Your Climate Vulnerabilities
The analysis generated by Resilient Analytics is unique in that it provides decision support at multiple spatial and temporal scales. By first determining the future climate changes— stressors—that will negatively impact infrastructure, Resilient Analytics utilizes a wide range of climate models to establish future impacts from changes in factors including temperature, precipitation and flooding.
Determine Your Options and Costs
Resilient Analytics analyzes the specific impacts climate stressors will have on infrastructure including roads, rail, buildings, and bridges. Utilizing engineering and design guidelines, Resilient Analytics analyzes each asset for potential impacts and resilience opportunities. Impacts are quantified as fiscal costs and risks. Adaptation options are presented in terms of adaptation versus maintenance-only strategies.
Resilient Analytics has been selected by the Illinois DOT to update the statewide resiliency plan for the transportation system. Resilient Analytics will be working with multiple IDOT districts to determine priorities for resiliency and adaptation investments.
Resilient Analytics worked with the Center for Climate Integrity to publish a groundbreaking study on the cost of climate change to over 2,000 municipalities in Pennsylvania. Covering ten different sectors, the study identified over $15 billion in adaptation costs by 2040.
Resilient Analytics' effort to assist Boulder County after the 2021 Marshall Fire continues to be recognized. A story by Bill McKibben in the New Yorker highlights the efforts as an example of responding to climate change disasters.
Resilient Analytics will be working with the Pew Trust to analyze the potential costs of deferred maintenance to states. A potential challenge for pensions and retirement funds, understanding deferred maintenance costs will reduce unforeseen expenses.
Resilient Analytics was recognized by the Climate Change Business Journal and the Environmental Business Journal for its work on the Boulder County Resiliency effort and the National K-12 Temperature study. Stanley Consultants was also recognized for its acquisition of RA and the development of its climate resilience practice.
Resilient Analytics is part of the team analyzing the expansion of the South Pole Research Station. Providing support for the engagement of the scientific community as well as looking at potential climate issues, Resilient Analytics is providing critical impact to the long-term master planning for the station.
Resilient Analytics, working with Stanley Consultants, is providing resiliency assistance to the Arizona DOT for the rebuilding of SR 88.
Resilient Analytics partnered with the Center for Climate Integrity to study the current and future cooling requirements of 93,000 K-12 schools in the United States. Demonstrating the $100 Billion issue, the study shows that the country is unprepared to handle rising temperatures in schools.
Resilient Analytics partnered with Boulder County to provide an innovative mapping tool to allow county staff to visualize damage and assistance needs in the fire area. Emphasizing equity for assistance, the new tool is an evolution in disaster response and future disaster preparedness.
Resilient Analytics has been chosen to analyze the heat impacts on the MIT campus. From student comfort to energy consumption, heat is having an impact on university campuses. This study will be the first in a series to study the effects of heat on college campuses across the country.
Resilient Analytics is teaming with key partners to provide climate impact analysis to support climate risk reporting for national and international clients. Issues such as supply chain vulnerability, business interruption, and portfolio risk management are all being addressed in the context of climate impacts
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Resilient Analytics combined forces with Cardfif Metropolitan University to study the impact of climate change on historic housing stock in Wales, United Kingdom. In this first of a series of publications from the study, the authors detail the initial results and highlight the broad range of climate impacts facing historic structures.
