Description
Prepared by the Risk and Resilience Measurement Committee of the Infrastructure Resilience Division of ASCE
Resilience-Based Performance: Next Generation Guidelines for Buildings and Lifeline Standards, IRP 3, focuses on the enhancements that are needed in the design and construction of buildings and lifeline systems to support a community’s social stability, economic vitality, and environmental sustainability.
Topics include
| • | Characterization of communities and their supporting infrastructure, | ||||
| • | Hazard assessment, | ||||
| • | Metrics and assessment methods for community resilience, | ||||
| • | Metrics and assessment methods for building and lifeline performance, and | ||||
| • | A conceptual framework for developing resilience-based performance standards. | ||||
Current code-based standards focus on the performance of individual facilities and are out of sync with the resilience needs of the broader community. This Infrastructure Resilience Publication provides the basis of a new approach that will be of interest to engineers, economists, planners, and government officials.