Asset Performance

Risk & Resiliency

Built Asset Consultancy

Risk & Resiliency

Physical and operational risks can directly affect an asset’s ability to operate effectively, serve its users, and deliver long-term investment value. Extreme weather, utility disruption, aging infrastructure, and other unforeseen events can interrupt operations, affect occupants and users, reduce revenue, increase costs, and create unplanned capital requirements.

RLB helps owners and investors identify and prioritize these risks, providing a clearer understanding of how physical vulnerabilities could influence operational performance and investment outcomes.

By translating risk into practical and prioritized resilience measures, we help clients minimize disruption, strengthen business continuity, inform capital investment decisions, and protect the long-term performance and value of their assets.

From Risk Assessment to Capital Plan

RLB brings an owner’s perspective to resiliency planning. We help translate technical assessments and identified vulnerabilities into prioritized capital investments and actionable projects.

Our process includes:

  • Assess — Identify property-specific vulnerabilities related to weather, flooding, wildfire, utilities, building systems, critical infrastructure, and other potential disruptions.
  • Identify — Develop practical measures to reduce risk and improve resilience.
  • Quantify — Develop preliminary costs and evaluate the potential operational and financial impact.
  • Prioritize — Work with ownership and operations to determine which investments provide the greatest risk reduction and align with available capital.
  • Integrate — Identify opportunities to incorporate resilience improvements into planned renovations, capital projects, and repositionings.
  • Execute — Provide project management and owner’s representation through design, procurement, construction, and implementation.

Resilience is an Investment in the Future of the Asset 

The goal is not to eliminate every potential risk. It is to understand the risks, make informed investment decisions, and improve the property’s ability to withstand disruption and recover quickly.

By addressing vulnerabilities before an event occurs—and integrating improvements into planned capital projects where possible—owners can reduce the potential for damage, operational disruption, emergency expenditures, and loss of revenue.

RLB helps turn resiliency from a technical assessment into a practical capital strategy and execution plan.

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Ewan Crawford
Ewan Crawford

Director | Head of Built Asset Consultancy