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Our goal is to develop an improved understanding of the resilience of spatially-distributed infrastructure networks to extreme natural hazards through new methodologies and application to New Zealand-specific critical infrastructure. In the face of New Zealand’s unique natural hazard environment, and based on engineering science evidence, this project will enable New Zealanders to anticipate critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, and protect and transform the built environment to support thriving communities. The impact of this project will result from the robust quantification of infrastructure network resilience, and importantly, explicit insight into optimization of pre-disaster mitigation and post-disaster targeted repair strategies which will minimize the consequences of infrastructure network in-operability.
Current Projects
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Current Project Summary Matrix
Direct Funding
18TRA - Assessing Transient Populations Exposure to Disaster Risk (Darling - UC, Wilson - UC, Orchiston - UOtago, Bradley - UC)
18198 - Assessing the impact of undocumented stopbanks on flood routing and catchment performance (Wallace - UC, Crawford-Flett - QC, Wilson - UC, Shamseldin - UA)
18202 - Tsunami vulnerability of key infrastructural assets (Whittaker - UA, Melville - UA, Roberts - AC)
18196 - Understanding evacuation and travel behaviour under emergency situations in Auckland, New Zealand (Thakur - UC, Chowdhury - UA, Ranjitkar - UA, Costello - UA, Blake - UC)
18201 - Seismic resilience for fast-changing telecommunication networks (Bertelli - UCL, Giovinazzi - UC, Wotherspoon - UA, Rossetto - UCL)
- 18ADP - Critical infrastructure impacts & adaptations in small towns following earthquakes (McKibbin - UC, Blake - UC, Wilson - UC, Wotherspoon - UA, Hughes - UC)
18TEL - Framework for dynamic reconfiguration of wired and wireless communication systems following natural hazard events (Latif- UA, Austin - UA, Nair
- UA)17145 - Characterisation and screening of New Zealand stopbank networks (Rodger - UC, Crawford-Flett - QC, Shamseldin - UA, Wotherspoon - UA)
17143 - Characterising long-term ground deformation impacts on Christchurch City’s buried high voltage electricity network since the start of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (Rehman - UA, Hughes, UC, van Ballegooy T&T, Wotherspoon - UA)
17123 - Tsunami loading characteristics on power poles (Whittaker - UA, Melville - UA)17104 - Framework for integrated ‘end to end’ impact assessment of infrastructure networks under natural hazards (Uma - GNS, Prasanna - Mas, McDonald - ME, Horspool - GNS)
- 17GIS - Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Building Information Modeling to Characterise Urban Resilience (Jones - UC, Hughes - UC, Horspool - GNS)
- 17EPD - Electric power distribution system resilience modelling toolbox (Liu - UA, Nair - UA)
- 17RES - Effective Power Restoration Practices following extreme natural hazards (Maina - UA, Nair - UA, Liu - UA)
- 17MIC - A Framework for Islanded Microgrid Operation after Hazard Events (Deh Kohneh - UA, Nair - UA)17CRN - Criticality of road networks in Auckland (Rebello - UA, Jaggi - UA, Costello - UA, Blake - UC, Oo - AT, Hughes - T&T, Egbelakin - Mas)
- 16SMS - Technical resilience of stormwater management systems to flooding (Valizideh - UA, Shamseldin - UA, Wotherspoon - UA)16SUL - Seismic resilience of underground lifelines: Case study of the Christchurch City potable water network (Bellagamba - UC, Bradley - UC, Wotherspoon - UA, Hughes - UC)
- 16UTM - Assessing the resilience of an urban transportation network (Afzal - UA, Ranjitkar - UA, Costello - UA)
16RTN - Operational resilience assessment of a rural road network (Aghababaei - UA, Costello - UA, Ranjitkar - UA)
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- Resilience of Infrastructure Networks following Natural Hazard Events: Novel System of Systems Framework (Wotherspoon - UA, Nair - UA, Shamseldin - UA, Downward - UA, Zorn - OX)
- Interdependent national infrastructure (Zorn - UA, Shamseldin - UA)
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- Developing tsunami vulnerability functions and functionality/repair time models for critical infrastructure (Williams - UC, Hughes - UC, Wilson - UC, Horspool - UA, Lane - NIWA, Wotherspoon - UA)
- Modelling the hazard footprint and consequences of lava flows in an urban environment (Tsang - UA, Lindsay - UA, Coco - UA, Wilson - UC, Kennedy - UC, Deligne - GNS)
- Volcanic ash impacts on surface transportation (Blake - UC, Wilson - UC, Deligne - GNS, Linsday - UA, Cole - UC)
- Clean-up and restoration of urban environments after volcanic eruptions (Hayes - UC, Wilson - UC, Leonard - GNS, Deligne - GNS, Cole - UC)
- Flood vulnerability models for infrastructure assets (Paulik - NIWA, Popovich - NIWA)
- Water supply system resilience measurement (Balaei - UA, Wilkinson - UA)
- Tsunami loading on New Zealand bridges (Farvizi - UA, Melville - UA)Tsunami loading and performance of New Zealand wharves (Popovich - UA, Wotherspoon - UA, Shamseldin - UA)
- Seismic response of New Zealand wharves (Ragued - UA, Wotherspoon - UA)Seismic fragility models for New Zealand bridges (Lew - UA, Wotherspoon - UA, Al-Ani - OPUS)
- Assessing wastewater pipe performance through the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (Tang - UC, Scott - UC, Hughes - UC)
- Geospatial hazard exposure tools for infrastructure networks (Lin - UA, Wotherspoon - UA, Blake - UC)
- Characterisation of failure modes for New Zealand stopbank construction (Ting - UA, Melville - UA, Shamseldin - UA, Whittaker - UA)
Completed Projects
17MOT - An evaluation of lessons learned from responses to the Kaikoura earthquake (Wotherspoon - UA, Blake - UC, Trotter - OPUS, Ivory - OPUS, Stevenson - ResOrgs) Workshop Report Final Report
- 17CRN - Criticality of road networks in Auckland (Rebello - UA, Jaggi - UA, Costello - UA, Blake - UC, Oo - AT, Hughes - T&T, Egbelakin - Mas)
- 17145 - Characterisation and screening of New Zealand stopbank networks (Rodger - UC, Crawford-Flett - QC, Shamseldin - UA, Wotherspoon - UA)
- 17104 - Framework for integrated ‘end to end’ impact assessment of infrastructure networks under natural hazards (Uma - GNS, Prasanna - Mas, McDonald - ME, Horspool - GNS)
16018 - Resilience of Distributed Transportation Infrastructure Workshop (Costello, Ranjitkar - UA): Workshop Report
16071 - Performance of the Telecommunication Network during the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (Giovinazzi - UC, Nayyerloo - GNS, Esposito - ETH Zurich)
- 16SUL - Seismic resilience of underground lifelines: Case study of the Christchurch City potable water network (Bellagamba - UC, Bradley - UC, Wotherspoon - UA, Hughes - UC)
- Assessment of multi-hazard impacts on regional infrastructure and consequent implications for isolated settlements and their communities (Davies - UC, Wilson - UC, Davies - UC, Galliard - UA, Wotherspoon - UA, Hughes - UC)
- Interdependent national infrastructure (Zorn - UA, Shamseldin - UA)
- Seismic response of New Zealand wharves (Ragued - UA, Wotherspoon - UA)
- Tsunami loading and performance of New Zealand wharves (Popovich - UA, Wotherspoon - UA, Shamseldin - UA)
Monthly Meetings and Workshops
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- Resilience to Nature's Challenges National Science Challenge http://resiliencechallenge.nz/
- New Zealand Lifelines Committee and Regional Lifelines committees
- National Infrastructure Unit http://www.infrastructure.govt.nz/
- Determining Volcanic Risk in Auckland (DEVORA) http://www.devora.org.nz/
- Riskscape https://www.riskscape.org.nz/
- Riskscape Potential Collaborative Projects https://wiki.riskscape.org.nz/index.php/Collaborative_Projects
- SCIRT Learning Legacy https://scirtlearninglegacy.org.nz
- National Lifelines Forum 2017 http://www.aelg.org.nz/events/national-lifelines-forum-2017/
- National Lifelines Forum 2018 http://www.aelg.org.nz/events/national-lifelines-forum/
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