Climate Risk and Resilience Assessments
PR&A offers comprehensive benchmarking, assessment, and reporting services focused climate risks at both property and portfolio levels. Our services are adapted for acquisitions, developments, and the optimization of owned asset portfolios.
Climate Risk and Resilience Assessments
PR&A offers comprehensive benchmarking, assessment, and reporting services focused climate risks at both property and portfolio levels. Our services are adapted for acquisitions, developments, and the optimization of owned asset portfolios.
Our Approach
We integrate sustainability, risk, and resilience assessments with our core services. This approach enables investors to explore sustainability and resilience initiatives during investment due diligence and for facility planning and project assessments.
Our Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment services provide a thorough evaluation of climate risk data in relation to property condition and design, aimed at gauging resilience and recommending enhancements.
Comprehensive Climate Risk and Resilience Assessments
Key Features
- Integrated Approach: Combined with our development due diligence and property condition assessments, this approach enables stakeholders to seamlessly incorporate sustainable practices into investment evaluations.
- Detailed Analysis: Includes a comprehensive review of climate risk data and building and site systems, assessing their current condition and predicting resilience to climate change and extreme weather.
- Mitigation Recommendations: Offers actionable strategies to enhance resilience against identified risks.
Report Inclusions
- Document Reviews: In-depth examination of relevant documents to ensure a thorough understanding of existing conditions and risk.
- Climate Impact Considerations: Evaluation of resilient design features and climate impacts.
- Risk Assessment: Detailed coverage of risks including floods, heat stress, hurricanes, sea level rise, water scarcity, wildfires, and earthquakes.
Industry Leadership
- Standard Development: We contribute to shaping industry standards through our involvement in developing the ASTM Guide for Property Resilience Assessments (ASTM WK 62996 Under E 06.25).
Our Process
PR&A provides a phased approach to our services, allowing them to be completed within due diligence timelines or scaled across an entire portfolio of assets.
Identification of Climate Risks
Evaluates potential climate risks and climate risk data specific to your property to understand future impacts.
Design Review & Field Assessments
Conducts thorough design reviews and on-site assessments to evaluate existing conditions and identify areas for improvement.
Discussion of Low-Cost Measures & Capital Improvements
Explores cost-effective measures and necessary capital improvements to enhance resilience and mitigate risk.
Design and Monitoring of Projects
Plan and oversee the implementation of projects, ensuring they meet performance and resilience goals.
Experience Across all Asset Types
Our experience extends to all asset types; this allows us to provide consistent and competent services for across diversified portfolios.
Multifamily
Climate resilience is important for multifamily properties because it directly impacts asset value, operational continuity, resident safety, and long-term investment performance. PR&A has assessed thousands of multifamily properties including single family rental, student housing, senior living assets in garden style, mixed use, and mid- and high-rise multifamily properties.
Industrial
It is important that our nations distribution and manufacturing infrastructure be protected from climate events and extreme weather. Our experience spans over 100 million SF of industrial and warehouse space including mega distribution facilities, data centers, cold storage facilities, multi-story warehouses, shallow bay buildings, outdoor storage, trailer parking facilities, and master planned developments.
Office & Health Care
Climate resilience is crucial for office and healthcare properties to ensure uninterrupted operations, protect occupants and pantients, critical systems, and safeguard long-term asset value amid increasing climate-related risks. PR&A has assessed and provided construction oversight for many of the office buildings that shape our nation’s skylines including high-rise towers, corporate campuses, life science and biomanufacturing facilities, medical office buildings, and hospitals.
Retail & Mixed Use
A resilient retail property can help minimize business disruptions, protect tenant revenue streams, and maintain foot traffic and occupancy during and after extreme weather events. Our team has experience with mixed use and retail properties across the country including regional mall portfolios, anchored retail centers, mixed-use developments, and adaptive reuse projects.
Hotel
Hotels and resorts are often located in natural settings and along coastal corridors, which exposes them to direct impact from extreme weather and other climate related events. PR&A has assessed over 10,000 rooms across our hospitality portfolio, which includes coastal resorts, golf course resports, ski and mountain resorts, business lodging, luxury towers, adaptive reuse projects, and historic buildings.
Historical Properties & Adaptive Reuse
Historic buildings are typically built to legacy building codes, which require careful review to ensure resilience to weather and climate events. We apply the appropriate disciplines necessary to bring buildings and systems back to optimum conditions. This applies to industrial facilities, office buildings, hospitals, college and university buildings, parking facilities, and a broad range of other facilities.
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Experience Across all Asset Types
Our experience extends to all asset types; this allows us to provide consistent and competent services for across diversified portfolios.
Multifamily
Climate resilience is important for multifamily properties because it directly impacts asset value, operational continuity, resident safety, and long-term investment performance. PR&A has assessed thousands of multifamily properties including single family rental, student housing, senior living assets in garden style, mixed use, and mid- and high-rise multifamily properties.
Industrial
It is important that our nations distribution and manufacturing infrastructure be protected from climate events and extreme weather. Our experience spans over 100 million SF of industrial and warehouse space including mega distribution facilities, data centers, cold storage facilities, multi-story warehouses, shallow bay buildings, outdoor storage, trailer parking facilities, and master planned developments.
Office & Health Care
Climate resilience is crucial for office and healthcare properties to ensure uninterrupted operations, protect occupants and pantients, critical systems, and safeguard long-term asset value amid increasing climate-related risks. PR&A has assessed and provided construction oversight for many of the office buildings that shape our nation’s skylines including high-rise towers, corporate campuses, life science and biomanufacturing facilities, medical office buildings, and hospitals.
Retail & Mixed Use
A resilient retail property can help minimize business disruptions, protect tenant revenue streams, and maintain foot traffic and occupancy during and after extreme weather events. Our team has experience with mixed use and retail properties across the country including regional mall portfolios, anchored retail centers, mixed-use developments, and adaptive reuse projects.
Hotel
Hotels and resorts are often located in natural settings and along coastal corridors, which exposes them to direct impact from extreme weather and other climate related events. PR&A has assessed over 10,000 rooms across our hospitality portfolio, which includes coastal resorts, golf course resports, ski and mountain resorts, business lodging, luxury towers, adaptive reuse projects, and historic buildings.
Historical Properties & Adaptive Reuse
Historic buildings are typically built to legacy building codes, which require careful review to ensure resilience to weather and climate events. We apply the appropriate disciplines necessary to bring buildings and systems back to optimum conditions. This applies to industrial facilities, office buildings, hospitals, college and university buildings, parking facilities, and a broad range of other facilities.
Commitment
to Client
We are proud to be a preferred consultant for many of the nation’s largest and most diligent investors.
By the Numbers
10000 +
Assessments
(Nationwide)
25 +
Years of Service
1 B+
SF of Assessments
50
States
Our Team
Steve Brandt
Chief Engineer
Steve Brandt is the Chief Engineer of Pond, Robinson & Associates. He brings more than 40 years of Professional Engineering consulting experience to the firm, possessing comprehensive training, knowledge, and experience in construction management and consulting; commercial land development; commercial property condition assessments; accessibility engineering; and sustainability. He has proven business and engineering success serving a broad range of institutional clients, across all industries, sectors and property types, providing a high degree of professional service and care to meet the changing needs of our clients.
Mr. Brandt possesses a unique combination of professional assessment and evaluation skills, consisting of a thorough knowledge of land development, including the entitlement, financing and feasibility of commercial developments, and the design and construction of the built environment.
His comprehensive understanding of building systems, material characteristics, construction techniques, green and sustainable design and construction practices, contracts, codes and standards, environmental and hazardous materials regulations, remediation alternatives, and maintenance and repair strategies provides a qualified and focused approach to construction management, commercial property review, assessment and due diligence investigations. He has extensive training and experience in energy consulting, commissioning, benchmarking, energy audits, LEED® and ENERGY STAR® certifications. As a Certified Accessibility Specialist, he also possesses detailed expertise in accessibility and disability engineering.
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Valparaiso University, 1980
Registrations
- Professional Engineer, Texas, 1987
- ICBO Certified Accessibility Specialist
Justin Lia
Co-President
Justin Lia is the Chief Growth Officer of Pond, Robinson & Associates and brings over 25 years of diverse experience in commercial real estate. Having grown up in a family of contractors, engineers, architects and developers commercial real estate is a big part of Mr. Lia’s life. Mr. Lia has worked as a contractor, a construction inspector, a design engineer, a forensic engineer, a broker, a developer, and extensively as a real estate due diligence advisor for both transactional and occupier clients. His specialty is leveraging his extensive experience in commercial real estate to understand complex real estate transactions and guide clients through technical scopes of work that mitigate risk in their investments and manage the lifecycle costs of their buildings. Mr. Lia has been a registered professional engineer for over 20 years.
As a civil engineer, Mr. Lia was responsible for preparing commercial and residential site plans, due diligence reports/feasibility analyses, entitlements, infrastructure assessments (projects up to $3.7B), building inspections, and various structural and geotechnical engineering services. Clients include both public and private on a host of projects ranging from a runway extension on an air force base, slope stability for a Department of Energy particle collider, to the feasibility of large mixed-use sports and gaming complexes, to the structural design and retrofit of retail centers, to large earth retaining and waterfront structures, and a variety of others across all asset types. Mr. Lia has guided clients through the physical, environmental and capital planning due diligence process on many of the largest, most valuable buildings in the United States including: The Bellagio Hotel and Casino, the Willis Tower, multiple movie studios, a 15MM SF industrial/warehouse portfolio, large hospital/MOB portfolios, large multifamily portfolios, sale-leaseback transactions, retail malls, and many large office complexes. Mr. Lia is a subject matter expert in site, civil, geotechnical engineering, and real estate due diligence, and has served as an expert witness.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University at Buffalo
Introduction to Corporate Finance, University of Pennsylvania
Registrations
Professional Engineer, New York, 2004
STAAD Certified Engineer
OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety and Health
A.CRE Accelerator Certificate (CRE Financial Modeling)
LEED AP Building Design + Construction, USGBC