Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate

This publication explores how extreme heat is emerging as a growing risk factor and planning consideration across the United States, and how the real estate industry is responding with design approaches, technologies and new policies to mitigate the impacts and help protect human health. Real estate development and land use policy case studies explore how U.S. real estate developers, designers, and policymakers are implementing solutions to make spaces more adaptable to environmental condit...