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Mayor Proposes New Building Guidelines to Combat Climate Change

NEW YORK CITY--The city will review and pilot the resiliency guidelines on projects through the rest of 2017. The results will be used to refine the preliminary draft and a final version will be released in December 2017.

By Paul Bubny | johnjordan | Updated on May 02, 2017

Photo of Carlo Scissura Carlo A. Scissura, president, CEO of the New York Building Congress

NEW YORK CITY–To address the predicted impacts of climate change, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has issued a new set of “climate resiliency design guidelines” for new construction and renovations to existing city buildings and infrastructure.

The new guidelines, released on Friday, have been well received by environmental groups as well as from the building industry. The guidelines, advanced by the Mayor’s Office Of Recovery And Resiliency, provide architects, engineers, planners instructions on how to incorporate anticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea levels into the design of city facilities.

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