Built environment must leverage emerging technologies to mitigate climate change impacts

Climate change is impacting on the built environment and the industry must bolster its efforts to mitigate this, levering the requisite emerging technologies, University of Florida Professor Chimay Anumba said in a keynote address on the first day of the WABER & SuDBE conference, being held this week at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. Anumba explained that climate change continued to occur and to impact on the built environment, resulting in the need for a more urgent and multifaceted response.