Desert Apocalypse: Innovative Strategies for Urban Survival
Elixir Environmental works with building product manufacturers to develop transparency documentation for material ingredient reporting, including Health Product Declarations (HPD). HPDs help contribute points under LEED v4. Product declarations offer your customers an unsurpassed level of transparency, can validate claims of your product's contents, and increase the chances of your building product getting specified.
Is Phoenix on the brink of a desert apocalypse, where relentless heat, dwindling water supplies, and raging wildfires could transform this vibrant city into an uninhabitable wasteland? Explore the critical intersection of climate change, urban design, and sustainability in this course focused on the future of desert metropolises. Using Phoenix, Arizona as a compelling case study, we'll examine the complex challenges facing arid urban environments and innovative solutions to address them. We review LEED v4.1 BD+C strategies that can help design professional mitigate the heat, water, and environmental issues.
- Explore how the combination of extreme heat events and increasing water scarcity could potentially render Phoenix, Arizona uninhabitable in the coming decades.
- Describe how LEED v4.1 BD+C strategies can simultaneously mitigate the urban heat island effect and create safer, healthier environments for building occupants
- Explore how LEED v4.1 BD+C water reduction strategies can help mitigate water scarcity in desert communities to safeguard water supplies for building occupants
- Review how LEED v4.1 BD+C energy efficiency strategies can help mitigate issues and make healthier spaces for occupants
