Our people
Project Co-Leaders: Alice Chang-Richards, Ken Elwood, and Geoff Rodgers.
Project Contact Person: Geoff Rodgers (geoff.rodgers@canterbury.ac.nz)
Project Investigators: Ken Elwood, Geoff Rodgers, Alice Chang-Richards, Rajesh Dhakal, Tim Sullivan, Giuseppe Loporcaro, Max Stephens, Rick Henry, Charlotte Toma, Lucas Hogan, Olga Filippova, Megan Boston, Fei Ying, Julia Becker, Nick Horspool, Rob Cardwell, Charlotte Brown, Didier Pettinga, Helen Ferner, Reza Jafarzadeh, Greg MacRae.
Project PhD students: Rosa Gonzalez, Nikki Buck, Beth Mayer, Ryo Kuwabara, Gonzalo Muñoz, Kieran Haymes, Shen Zhan, Lianyan Li.
Project Research Assistant and Administration: Gonzalo Muñoz (gonzalo.munoz@aucklanc.ac.nz).
Project Proposal
Research Programme Plan
Project Abstract
Inter-Disciplinary Programme 1 will promote functional recovery and develop solutions to maintain and restore building function following a large earthquake. Factors such as economic, societal, and sustainability drivers for more resilient buildings will be investigated and linked to low-damage design concepts and risk-targeted design for functionality. The research will also investigate technical requirements to restore function and associated expectations and timeframes for repair in a post-earthquake environment. This programme will investigate drivers for uptake of increased post-earthquake functionality and the wide-ranging motivation for, and consequences of, improved functional recovery. Specific technical, economic, and societal challenges to develop evidence-based guidance on functional recovery will be identified. Overall, this programme will support and promote increased societal resilience through greater uptake of low-damage building designs and guidance on the repair of buildings that suffer damage during a large earthquake.
Key Objectives
Focusing on the functional recovery of multi-storey buildings, this interdisciplinary programme includes four key objectives: (1) define the drivers for change toward building design based on functional recovery; (2) identify design methods that provide high confidence in maintaining functionality; (3) identify the level of damage which is acceptable to repair and the expected performance of repaired buildings; (4) identify achievable and acceptable timeframes for restoration of function considering external constraints and stakeholder requirements.
Monthly meetings
October meeting (12 October 2022)
Meeting recording (link)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Sally Mireku | User expectations of repaired buildings and restoration timeframes | - |
August meeting (10 August 2022)
Meeting recording (link)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Quincy Ma | Improving hospital seismic resilience by understanding the dynamic response of castor equipment during earthquakes | - |
June meeting (10 May 2022): QuakeCoRE Seminar
Meeting recording (link)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Alice Chang-Richards | Functional Recovery with Repairable Multi-storey Buildings |
May meeting (11 May 2022)
Meeting recording (link)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Lianyan Li | Functional recovery: practice frameworks, indicators and factors | |
| Jason Zhan | Factors affecting the timeframe of post-disaster recovery in the built environment: a systematic review | Link |
March meeting (9 March 2022)
Meeting recording (link)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Megan Boston and Beth Mayer | Ongoing work on quantifying and assessing hospital functionality following disaster | - |
December meeting (1 December 2021)
Meeting recording (-)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Greg MacRae | Designing repairable steel buildings | - |
| Ken Elwood | ATC-145: Guideline for repair of earthquake-damaged buildings | - |
| Gonzalo Muñoz | Residual capacity and repair of RC walls | - |
October meeting (29 October 2021)
Meeting recording (link passcode: Hn6%9Na6)
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation link |
Siamak Sattar | Ongoing studies in US related to Functional Recovery | - |
Supplementary info:
- Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time: LifeLines - FEMA Webinar
August meeting (01 September 2021):
Meeting agenda (link)
Meeting recording (link passcode: &?F64AuO)
| Presenters | Topic | Presentation link |
Mark Willard | The Ministry of Educations Approach to State School Post Earthquake Resilience and Functional Recovery | |
| Olga Filippova | 'Dirty 30': Review of Christchurch's barrier sites |
Supplementary info:
- Ministry’s Structural and Geotechnical Requirements are available for download: Earthquake Resilience
- A two-page summary sheet outlining our key requirements can be downloaded here: Two-page summary sheet
July meeting (28 July 2021):
Meeting agenda (link)
Meeting recording (link passcode: 9ewu$+eY)
| Presenters | Topic | Presentation link |
| Charlotte Brown | After an earthquake: the impacts of disaster waste | |
| Rosa Gonzalez and Charlotte Toma | Building the carbon case for resilient design | |
| Alice Chang-Richards | Life cycle analysis (LCA) of building carbon emissions and construction waste quantification | |
| Casimir MacGregor | Transition to a Zero Carbon Built Environment: research, challenges and opportunities |
June meeting (23 June 2021):
| Presenters | Topic | Presentation link |
| Gregory MacRae and Zheng Luo | Seismic resilience estimation of low-damage building systems | |
| Charlotte Brown | NZSEE Resilient buildings project | |
| Geoff Rodgers | Objective 2: Maintaining functionality | |
| Robert Cardwell | Functional recovery IP1 | |
| Olga Filippova | Building user views of repaired buildings and expectation of restoration timeframes |