SR130 Climate change adaptation (2007)

This study report provides guidance on adapting New Zealand's built environment for the impacts of climate change.

It is designed to help government agencies and the building and construction industry to first understand the key impacts that climate change will have on the built environment and, second, to begin planning and implementing integrated adaptation strategies to future-proof New Zealand’s built assets and protect the communities of which they are a part.

If buildings are not built or retrofitted now to deal with both the present and future climate, an unsustainable situation will get progressively worse and present formidable problems for both this generation and the next.