Mobilizing Building Adaptation and Resilience (MBAR) is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder knowledge and capacity building project led by BC Housing, with participation and contribution from over 30 organizations, including national, provincial, and local agencies; and industry partners.
Pilot Projects
Mobilizing Building Adaptation and Resilience (MBAR) helps people protect their homes and buildings in the face of climate change. Pilot projects get access to resources and expertise about renovations and building design to help buildings remain comfortable, safe, and resilient even with heavier rainfall, hotter summers, wildfires, flooding, and windstorms.
MBAR addresses climate change impacts on buildings and neighborhoods. Knowledge created by the MBAR initiative can help building owners address and minimize the impacts of climate change on buildings and people living in them. Our easy-to-read one-page resources are designed to help your design team plan renovations or design a new building, providing guidance on:
- Site strategies
- Design strategies
- Operations strategies
- Community benefits
- Potential design conflicts
- Costs and impacts
MBAR Training
MBAR is creating training based on real-life experience from pilot projects that include new and existing:
- Residential buildings
- Care facilities & Health campuses
- Schools
- Public/institutional buildings
- Seniors housing
- Social housing
- Indigenous housing
MBAR will provide different types of training to support professional development for people who design, build, and renovate buildings where people live. By adapting building design and renovation to be resilient, we are future-proofing our homes in the face of climate change.
MBAR will equip experienced practitioners to train others. In this way, more people will benefit from resilient building techniques and materials.
Partners
Mobilizing Building Adaptation and Resilience (MBAR) is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder knowledge and capacity building project led by BC Housing, with participation and contribution from over 30 organizations, including national, provincial, and local agencies; and industry partners.
MBAR is funded by:
NRCan
BC Housing
BC Hydro
City of Vancouver
Lower Mainland Health Organizations
Province of BC
In-kind contributors:
BC Institute of Technology
BC Non-Profit Housing Association
Canadian Home Builders’ Association
City of Toronto
Engineers & Geoscientists BC
Fraser Basin Council
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Island Health Authority
Lower Mainland Health Organizations
Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
SFU Adaptation to Climate Change Team
Tarion Ontario
University of BC
Urban Development Institute
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