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This article is an exploration of the components that make built environments resilient as well as the possible application of built environments for resilience engineering. This article defines resilience as “the intrinsic ability of a system to adjust its functioning prior to, during, or following changes and disturbances, so that it can sustain required operations under both expected and unexpected conditions”. The article further splits this definition into four abilities: Knowing what to do during an event, Knowing what to look for to predict future problems, Knowing what has happened and how to learn from the situation, and Knowing what to expect from potential events. The article concludes with the point that a built environment that would be considered resilient requires at least a basic level of all four of the abilities as a minimum. And that even if a built system is able to respond to any potential problems well, it has to also be able to adequately react to any possible opportunities. Otherwise it will not be better off than a non-resilient system in the long-run.