Climate-Ready Guides

Three Levels of a Heat-Ready Community

Extreme heat is an urgent and growing risk for Canadian municipalities. As temperatures rise and heat events become more frequent, longer, and more intense, municipalities and their partners must move from awareness to coordinated, measurable action.

This easy-to-follow, three-step action checklist will help communities in reducing illness, death, and discomfort during extreme heat events by integrating heat-ready features into building design, emergency planning, public spaces, and community programs. Through collaboration with health agencies, community organizations and residents, municipalities can better assess local heat risks, protect vulnerable populations, and create cooler, safer neighbourhoods.

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Three Steps to Cost-Effective Home Heat Protection

Extreme temperatures and heat waves already occur across Canada and will become more extreme in the future. These easy-to-follow heat protection guidelines will help residents living in houses reduce their risk to extreme heat exposure. Download your copy and distribute freely across your community or municipality.

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Three Steps to Cost-Effective Apartment and Condo Heat Protection

Extreme temperatures and heat waves already occur across Canada and will become more extreme in the future. These easy-to-follow heat protection guidelines will help residents living in apartments and condos reduce their risk to extreme heat exposure. Download your copy and distribute freely across your community or municipality.

For the long description, click here: AODA Intact Centre Three Steps Apartment and Condo Heat Protection

Three Steps to Cost-Effective Home Flood Protection

Intense rainfall events combined with aging municipal infrastructure, increased urbanization and a lack of flood protection measures at the household level have resulted in losses in billions of dollars for Canadian homeowners, landlords, tenants, and governments over the past decade. The Intact Centre has developed a list of top actions Canadians can take around their home to reduce their flood risk.

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Three Levels of a Flood-Ready Community

The Intact Centre has developed this guide to show municipalities how to strengthen flood resilience by outlining key actions that can be taken across three levels: Residential and Commercial Buildings, Community-Based Flood Risk Management, and Watershed and Shoreline Management. 

The guide is designed to complement Intact Centre’s Municipal Flood Risk Check-Up tool, which was developed to support Canadian municipalities in better preparing for heavy rainfall, river, and coastal flooding. It is a self-assessment questionnaire with 50 questions designed to assess potential flood exposure and flood preparedness implementation.

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Key Flood-Resilience Measures for Commercial Real Estate in Canada

The commercial real estate industry can implement flood-resilience measures to reduce property damage, business disruptions and potential flood-related injury and loss of life stemming from extreme rainfall events.

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Three Steps to Cost-Effective Wildfire Smoke Protection at Home

Wildfire smoke is an escalating health risk in Canada and around the world. The Intact Centre has developed this guide to help Canadians reduce their exposure and protect their health before and during wildfire smoke events.

This guide illustrates practical actions that are organized around three key steps: 
1. Preparing before wildfire smoke arrives 
2. Improving indoor air during smoke events 
3. Upgrading the home to reduce smoke infiltration

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Three Steps to a Cost-Effective FireSmart™ Home

FireSmart™ Canada leads the development of resources and programs designed to empower the public and increase community resilience to wildfire across Canada. The Intact Centre has collaborated with FireSmart Canada™ to create a summary of the top actions residents can take to reduce home wildfire risk.

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Three Features of a Wildfire-Ready Community

The Intact Centre has developed best practice guidance that communities can integrate into their wildfire risk management plans to limit damage and disruption from wildfire events and strengthen emergency preparedness.

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Three Ways to Reduce Climate Risk: Working with Nature at Home

Wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat – these perils are threatening Canada’s residential housing market, and homeowners, in ways not imagined just a few years ago. The good news is there are ways residents can protect their property by working with nature to limit the impacts of extreme weather – think planting a rain garden to absorb water and avoid basement flooding, or using shade trees to limit direct sunlight from heating a home and allowing for cost savings on air conditioning.   Download your copy and distribute freely across your community or municipality.

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