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Building assessment during disaster response and recovery

Peña-Mora, F; Aziz, ZUH; Chen, A; Plans, A; Foltz, S

Authors

F Peña-Mora

A Chen

A Plans

S Foltz



Abstract

During disaster response and recovery operations,
civil engineers can be assigned a multitude of tasks
including triage of building search priorities, identifi cation
and evaluation of structural hazards, as well as the
development of appropriate structural hazard mitigation
techniques and monitoring of hazards, while coordinating
and reporting this information to the incident command
centre (ICC). This paper reviews the role of civil
engineers in disaster response with a focus on existing
building assessment and marking systems and highlights
various limitations of existing approaches. A mobile
information technology (IT)-based collaborative
framework is discussed to facilitate a coordinated
disaster response and recovery operation. It enables
engineers to assess building damage better and to make
this information available to personnel more quickly and
easily within the disaster area and thereby improve
disaster response. The deployed architecture is composed
of various components including radio frequency
identifi cation (RFID)-based structural assessment, a field
engineer’s mobility and information support platform
and geographic information systems (GIS)-based
resource optimisation. Deployed infrastructure enables
the on-site and on-demand information provisioning,
data processing and computational support required by
engineers in the aftermath of a disaster.

Citation

Peña-Mora, F., Aziz, Z., Chen, A., Plans, A., & Foltz, S. (2008). Building assessment during disaster response and recovery. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 161(4), 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.2008.161.4.183

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Dec 1, 2008
Deposit Date Mar 27, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 27, 2013
Journal Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Print ISSN 1755-0793
Publisher Thomas Telford
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 161
Issue 4
Pages 183-195
DOI https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.2008.161.4.183
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/udap.2008.161.4.183
Related Public URLs http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/serial/udap;jsessionid=4df1efb19o1n5.x-telford-live-01
Additional Information Funders : National Science Foundation (NSF)