Why don't climate risks inform where we live?

One in three Dutch households can not afford to cover flood damage, yet most of us never check the flood risk before signing a contract. Join us for an evening that puts this tension centre stage: researcher Maged Elsamny presents finding from his upcoming report on climate risk assessment tools that are supposed to help us (buyers, renters, insurers, policy makers, urban planners) make smarter decisions. But, are they actually working?

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Together with experts from the Dutch Green Building Council, Bouwinvest and the municipality, we join Maged’s train of thought to discuss why recognising climate risk so rarely leads to action and what needs to change: the tools, the regulation, or the market?

Meet the speakers

Maged Elsamny

Maged Elsamny is a researcher at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, where he is developing the Climate Damage Calculator (CDC)—a tool that financially assesses climate damage to buildings using real-world data rather than simulations. His knowledge-driven model estimates climate risk at the building component level using physical resilience curves, with an initial focus on flood risks in Amsterdam. Maged’s work addresses the critical gap between physical climate hazards and their financial implications for property owners, cities, and the real estate sector.

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