North Carolina’s historic properties are facing historic floods. Communities across the state must coordinate across departments and perspectives to bring resilience to our historic districts. For the last year or so, we’ve had the privilege to work alongside colleagues from the NCSU College of Design, UNC, and more on the Historic Resilience Project, a series of resources focused on community resilience and historic preservation in North Carolina. This important work has been supported by the State Historic Preservation Office. You can find all of the resources on the Historic Resilience Project website. We are offering on-line deep-dive workshops to further explore how you can use these resources in your community.

This Resilience Design Standards Workshop will offer a deep-dive into the Resilience Design Standards: Model Standards for North Carolina’s Historic Properties. This great resource is a ready-made tool for local governments to encourage and support historic resilience efforts by property owners. The Standards provide a model regulatory framework for historic preservation commissions to assess the appropriateness of specific structural interventions for properties with a local historic designation. The Standards may be tailored to a community and adopted as a supplement to existing preservation design standards. The half-day online workshop will explore the standards and equip communities to put them into place.  

Monday, March 18th 2024

1:00pm - 4:00pm

$0 Registration fee

The Historic Resilience Project and Workshops were produced with assistance from the Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the National Park Service, Department of Interior. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.  The Project was supported by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office and Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and coordinated among initiatives at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the partner institutions or individual team members.