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New NPS Resources on Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Resilience, and Historic Buildings

April 15, 2024

New Website on Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Resilience, and Historic Buildings

Historic properties can be made more sustainable, energy-efficient, and resilient, improving their performance and use while also preserving their historic character. Doing so not only improves their efficiency and livability but helps to ensure their long-term preservation as well.The NPS has been providing guidance and technical preservation information on these issues in relation to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties for decades since producing one of its first Preservation Briefs on the subject of energy efficiency in 1978.Current NPS guidance and information are collected and presented in a new webpage for easy access to further explore these topics

New Guidance on Resilience to Natural Hazards and Historic Buildings

New guidance on resilience to natural hazards has been issued. It is adapted from the “Resilience to Natural Hazards” section in The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring and Reconstructing Historic Buildings (2017) and from The Guidelines on Flood Adaptation for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings (2021).