The Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR), part of the International Code Council (ICC) family of companies, is a coalition of public and private organizations developing the country’s first whole-community resilience benchmark.
The ANCR benchmark will consider a community’s risk awareness and capacity to respond to natural disasters and other events affecting the accessibility, quality, and availability of homes, schools, and businesses. ANCR’s Resilient Building Committee of architects, code officials, government experts, and other subject matter experts will help to define the criteria for evaluating community-wide resiliency.
ANCR announced that the American Institute of Architects and the American Wood Council recently joined the National Institute of Building Sciences, Dow Chemical Company, Portland Cement Association, Simpson Strong-Tie, Target Corporation, among other organizations as ANCR sponsors.
“We are excited to have a diverse group of experts participating in the creation of the ANCR benchmark system. Once complete, this system will provide communities a transparent, practical and commonsense self-assessment to quickly and easily gauge their cross-sector resilience efforts, said ANCR chairman Maj. General Warren C. Edwards USA (Ret.). “The devastating storms and fires in California, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas and the U.S. Virgin Islands over the past year illustrate the importance of this groundbreaking program.”
