Working with our client, a major New Zealand healthcare provider, and external engineers, we developed a framework for prioritising resilience investment across our client’s building portfolio. The process aimed to balance parallel and sometimes competing objectives including:
- life safety risk related to seismic hazards
- risks from other hazards, and
- the need to effectively and efficiently continue operations with minimal disruption.
The framework guides users through a process of defining the criticality of the building, considering factors such as occupancy, requirements for post-disaster functionality, risk to neighbouring structures and access routes, and the importance of building to organizational functionality day to day. The framework also includes consideration of ongoing maintenance costs, costs to relocate services during building works, potential future uses of buildings, and opportunities to change the use of buildings or to achieve service improvements through investment options.
It is designed to be a collaborative process carried out by a cross-section of staff familiar with the organisation's operational, strategic, and crisis functions. Application of the framework helps achieve a robust building portfolio that supports the effective day-to-day operation of the business now and into the future.
Project outputs
The following journal paper outlines the project and its outcomes.
Brown C, Seville E, Horsfall S, Bugler G, Brunsdon D, Hare J. Seismic repair and retrofit prioritization framework. Earthquake Spectra. 2022;0(0).
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Project funding
This project was funded by a private client.