Over the past 10 years, the need for resilient building practices has reached a critical level - encompassing the need to withstand, adapt and quickly recover from natural disasters, power outages, and public health crisis. In 2020, more than 30 million people globally were displaced due to weather-related disasters like floods, droughts and wildfires. In 2021, the U.S. alone experienced 20 climate disasters with economic losses exceeding $140 billion.*
This underscores the critical need for resilient building practices to protect communities and reduce vulnerability to such disasters - Armstrong contributes to many aspects of building resiliency including indoor environmental quality, carbon reduction and energy savings - explore these areas and learn more: