The sustainability resources (SR) to external influences is understood as the ability of natural or natural-technogenic objects and systems to withstand negative impacts and at the same time preserve and maintain their basic functional properties within acceptable or specified limits [1]. The use of the concept of sustainability resources to assess the risk of a system leaving an acceptable state necessitates a revision of some methodological issues in surveys for construction. Traditionally, the purpose of research is to obtain initial data for design decisions and calculations for various purposes. We emphasize that the existing approach corresponds to the strategy of protection from hazardous processes, and the use of the SR concept to external influences is more consistent with the strategy to prevent negative consequences. In addition, social and environmental factors, combined with global climate change, also increase the risks of hydrometeorological hazards and associated floods, activation of landslides, erosion, and karst-suffusion processes. Reducing these risks has traditionally been achieved by implementing protective engineering measures (or gray infrastructure), but natural solutions (green and blue infrastructure) are increasingly being explored [2]. This approach, in our opinion, corresponds to the goal of ensuring rational and sustainable interaction with the geological environment during construction and economic activities. A number of methodological techniques for performing engineering surveys in various natural and man-made conditions are proposed.