Analyzing the Resilience of Construction Firms through Resilience Indicators
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
Preparing construction firms for an upcoming disaster is as important as community planning. While the latter has so much study and research go into it, the former is not given much importance as shown in the literature review. Resilience frameworks are designed to measure resilience of a community, a city, or state quantitatively or qualitatively. There are numerous frameworks based on state, disaster type input variables, and outcome from a framework. Indicators play a key role in any of the above-mentioned resilience frameworks. For each resilience framework designed in the past, there are several indicators that vary based on the type of disaster. The indicators also depend on whether the framework is designed for pre-disaster preparedness or post-disaster recovery. In this study, the resilience indicators used in the frameworks previously are identified and listed that could be used for a construction resilience framework. The authors of this study will address construction firms as one of the important firms to respond in case of a disaster occurrence. The objective is to identify indicators from the literature that are related to the construction industry. The methodology of this paper utilizes an existing tool that is used to develop resilience indicators. Conclusions include the identified resilience indicators and also discusses the scope of research that is currently being done by the authors.
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Pages: 648 - 654
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