The Urban Adaptation Support Tool (UAST), hosted on Climate-ADAPT, guides cities and local authorities through a six-step climate-adaptation policy cycle: preparing the ground, assessing climate risks and vulnerabilities, identifying adaptation options, developing an action plan, implementing measures, and monitoring results. For EXCEL4HOUSING4.0, it is a strong strategic risk-analysis resource for integrating climate resilience into sustainable housing, renovation and urban planning. It helps users consider hazards such as heat, flooding and extreme weather together with exposure, vulnerability and adaptive capacity, and links each step to European data, guidance, examples and complementary tools. In training, the UAST can support project managers, public authorities, energy agencies and advanced learners in understanding how climate risk should influence investment priorities, renovation strategies and building-policy decisions. It complements technical building tools by adding a city- and policy-level resilience perspective.
Keywords
Main theme addressed by the tool
Energy Efficiency
Objectives
To help cities and local authorities develop, implement and monitor climate-adaptation strategies and action plans. The tool supports preparation, assessment of climate risks and vulnerabilities, identification and appraisal of adaptation options, implementation and monitoring, with links to EU data, guidance and practice examples.
Target audience
Cities, municipalities and regional authorities; urban and sustainability planners; energy and climate agencies; building and renovation programme managers; consultants; VET/HE trainers; advanced learners and professionals working on resilient and sustainable urban development.
Benefits
Provides a structured EU-level process for climate-risk-aware planning; helps users connect hazards, exposure and vulnerability with adaptation decisions; links to curated European data and tools; supports policy consistency; and offers examples that can be used in professional training or case-based learning.
Data requirements
The tool can be explored with limited prior data, but a robust local assessment benefits from information on climate hazards and projections, exposed buildings/infrastructure/populations, vulnerability and adaptive capacity, existing plans, stakeholder knowledge and local priorities.
Learning Profiles addressed
- Energy Renovation & Performance Specialist
- Green Construction Strategy Leader
- Lifecycle Carbon & Climate Compliance Specialist
- Sustainable Construction Project Manager
Examples of application
Free
How to use the tool – Tutorials
Learning materials
Language
English and multiple EU languages
Other information
UAST is particularly relevant to Covenant of Mayors climate-and-energy planning and can be paired with Climate-ADAPT data resources and more technical building-performance tools.
Remarks
This is a strategic planning and risk-governance framework, not a numerical building-level risk calculator. For project-specific design decisions it should be combined with local climate data and technical assessment tools.
