### Motivation and Purpose  
UAVs are increasingly recognized as critical to improving completion time, performance, and flexibility for numerous tasks supporting ground infrastructure and networks. As climate change increases the risks to the built environment, properly integrating UAVs into these systems is vital. The effective utilization of UAVs to bolster resilience requires careful consideration of the relevant requirements. UAV assistance shows promise for expediting structural assessments, coordinating emergency response, assessing damage, and mitigating climate threats. Strategic UAV implementation can strengthen the adaptability and durability of buildings, transportation networks, utilities, and communication systems against intensifying climate impacts, specifically within the built environment. Further research and planning are essential to fully leverage UAVs' capabilities for safeguarding the built environment as climate risks escalate. UAVs have significant potential to support the rapidly changing urban infrastructure; however, effectively accomplishing these tasks presents challenges. Specific applications require tailoring UAV capabilities to address distinct difficulties. For example, deploying UAVs to assess urban damage and coordinate emergency responses after climate disasters demands careful planning to maximize resilience benefits. Further research on integrating UAVs into built environments can enable them to serve ground users better and fulfill assigned tasks amidst intensifying climate change threats. The escalating Impacts of climate change and the rapid development of AI present new opportunities to leverage UAVs for the resilience of the built environment. As extreme weather intensifies, AI-enabled UAVs have considerable potential to provide real-time hazard assessments, accurate monitoring for the built infrastructure, and coordinate emergency response post-climate hazards. However, fully capitalizing on emerging UAV and AI capacities requires a thoughtful integration into existing systems. Key questions remain regarding the optimal roles, design priorities, and deployment strategies for UAVs in built environments under climate change. Key questions remain regarding the most suitable deployment strategies for UAVs in built environments under climate change, how UAVs and AI can be utilized to evaluate shifting risk profiles and climate change vulnerabilities, and what new sensing, computing, and communication capabilities are needed. As computing power, battery technology, and automation advance, strategic UAV implementation can provide adaptive, comprehensive climate threat assessments and emergency responses. However, further research and planning are essential to unlock the full potential of UAVs and AI in creating a climate-resilient infrastructure. These questions motivate assessing the existing and proposed UAV-assisted solutions for built environments under climate change challenges. Potential UAV applications include real-time hazard monitoring, emergency response coordination, connectivity restoration for damaged networks, and climate vulnerability assessments. Integrating UAVs and AI requires categorizing capabilities based on mission types, such as routing, deployment coordination, cellular communications, disaster management, data gathering, surveillance, and secure communications. Capitalizing on the rapid advancement of AI and UAV technologies can provide adaptive climate threat mitigation and emergency responses. However, additional research is needed to devise optimal strategies for the UAV and AI integration that maximize the resilience of the built environment under intensifying climate risks. A comprehensive evaluation of UAV-based solutions elucidates the high-impact applications to strengthen the built environment. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how drone or UAV technologies are transforming climate change research and environmental analyses in the urban built environment.