Which of the following strategies can increase the climate resilience of a project during site-specific...

LEED v5 requires projects to identify relevant natural and climate hazards through IPp1: Climate Resilience Assessment and then use appropriate resilience strategies. Drought is specifically recognized as a natural hazard. For projects addressing drought through SSc4: Enhanced Resilient Site Design, USGBC explicitly identifies native and/or drought-tolerant adapted vegetation as a resilience strategy. Such landscaping reduces dependence on irrigation water and allows site vegetation to remain viable under prolonged water shortages or changing precipitation patterns. Enhanced roof insulation can improve building-envelope performance during temperature extremes but does not broadly address the site-specific hazard represented most clearly in these choices. Increasing indoor ventilation rates can actually increase energy demand and provides no direct site-hazard adaptation. Therefore, drought-tolerant landscaping is the explicitly recognized LEED v5 resilience measure among the available options.

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