When embarking on the design for an existing building retrofit or a new build, it is important to understand what climate hazards the project may be exposed to and how those hazards may change over the lifespan of the building. We know that building codes do not take future weather into account, and we have the ability, through climate science and data, to recommend enhanced design criteria for all project components based on their useful life. This enables us to take a performance-based design approach rather than a prescriptive code-based approach so that a building may recover more quickly following an extreme hazardous event.