Residential Resilience Audits
Onsite Assessments to Guide At-Risk Residents in Preparing for Future Storms
This program will deliver assistance to approximately 1600 residential properties.
Our work is helping to give residential property owners the tools and capacity to retrofit residential structures in a resilient and sustainable manner.
- Owner
- The Center for New York City Neighborhoods
- Location
- New York, NY
- Completed
- 2017
- Region
- Northeast
We provided professional engineering and consulting services to the Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Inc. (the Center), to design and execute a program to conduct resilience audits for residential properties throughout the city, as part of its Residential Technical Assistance Pilot Program (RTAPP). The objectives of the pilot program were to identify feasible and cost-effective retrofit methods to increase building resilience including planning-level cost estimates, and to prioritize recommendations that would result in decreases in flood insurance premiums.
RTAPP is funded by the New York Governor’s Office of
Storm Recovery (GOSR) through a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD). Addressing a common
need post-Superstorm Sandy across multiple New York Rising Community
Reconstruction (NYRCR) communities, RTAPP was devised to ensure that qualifying
residential property owners have the tools and capacity to retrofit residential
structures in a resilient and sustainable manner. This program will deliver
assistance to approximately 1600 residential properties, ranging from single-family
homes to residential towers, located in Canarsie, Gravesend and Bensonhurst,
Howard Beach, Lower Manhattan, Red Hook, Rockaway East, and Southeast Brooklyn
Waterfront.
We assisted the Center with the services necessary for
completing residential resilience audits and administration of this program in
accordance with HUD and GOSR requirements and timetables. We worked
collaboratively with staff from the Center, as well as other subcontractors,
including a designer and web developer for housing a resilience and flood insurance
calculation web platform, a firm providing multi-family specific resilience technical
assistance, and multiple firms providing resilience technical assistance
counseling to owners of properties, based on the recommendations of our audits.
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Sandy-affected communities assisted
