The Weather Wheel: A Climate Resilience Game
The Weather Wheel climate resilience game offers a hands-on way to explore how climate change could impact buildings over the coming decades and what actions can be taken to improve resilience. Drawing on insights from UKGBC’s Resilience Roadmap and wide climate adaptation work, this interactive session challenges participants to think strategically about climate risks, investment decisions and long-term building performance.
Working in teams, you’ll take responsibility for a fictional 1980s office building and guide it through four rounds spanning 2028 to 2050. As the climate changes around you, you’ll need to identify vulnerabilities, prioritise resilience measures and make difficult spending decisions within a limited budget.
Each round follows a simple but engaging process. You’ll assess your building’s weaknesses, select adaptation measures and decide where to invest.
Throughout the game you’ll explore:
Physical climate risks affecting buildings and their occupants.
Practical resilience interventions and adaptation measures.
The trade-offs between cost, risk reduction and staff wellbeing.
The consequences of short-term versus long-term decision-making.
How resilience planning can support business continuity and asset value.
The session brings climate resilience concepts to life in a collaborative and engaging format, helping participants understand the challenges organisations face when preparing for an uncertain future.
What Participants Will Leave With
By attending this session, participants will:
- Gain a practical understanding of physical climate risks.
- Learn about building-level climate adaptation measures.
- Develop confidence discussing resilience strategies with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Understand how resilience decisions are influenced by budgets and competing priorities.
- Explore approaches they can apply within their own organisations and projects.
- Experience a game-based learning technique that can be used to engage others on climate resilience.
Why Attend?
- Explore climate resilience through a highly interactive and engaging learning experience.
- Test adaptation strategies and see their impacts play out across different climate scenarios.
- Learn practical approaches for identifying and responding to physical climate risks.
- Understand the trade-offs between budget, performance, occupant comfort and resilience.
- Collaborate with peers and learn from different perspectives across the built environment sector.
- Experience an innovative engagement tool that can help inspire resilience conversations within your organisation.
- For organisations: equip employees with practical knowledge and systems-thinking skills that strengthen climate risk management and support better long-term decision-making.
Who Should Attend?
This event is designed for built environment professionals who want to better understand climate adaptation and resilience in practice. It will be particularly relevant to:
- Sustainability Managers, Sustainability Leads, and ESG professionals.
- Climate Risk and Resilience Managers.
- Asset Managers and Property Managers.
- Real Estate Investors and Developers.
- Facilities Managers and Building Operations professionals.
- Building Owners and Portfolio Managers.
- Design, Engineering and Technical Consultants.
- Risk, Business Continuity and Corporate Resilience professionals.
- Learning and Development professionals seeking innovative engagement approaches.
- Team leaders, managers and trainers interested in climate resilience education.
The sessions will be valuable for professionals working across the property, real estate, construction, engineering, consultancy, facilities management and investment sectors.
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