Chapter 1
A Risk-Informed Decision Framework to Achieve Resilient and Sustainable Buildings That Meet Community Objectives
Publication: Resilient and Sustainable Buildings
Abstract
A risk-informed decision-making approach is required that accounts for the positive spatio-temporal stochastic dependencies in demand and response on systems to assess their risks of failure and to identify cost-effective strategies to manage risk and enhance resilience. In this chapter, major attributes that make a community resilient are de-aggregated to the building level to facilitate development of systems that optimize building performance with respect to resilience and sustainability goals. The research hypothesis is that it is possible to develop risk-informed performance criteria for individual resilient and sustainable buildings exposed to a spectrum of natural hazards, which can be matched to community goals; that building attributes can be identified and parameterized to support this general risk-informed decision framework; and that the risk-informed decision framework supporting these performance criteria for individual buildings will enable enhanced community resilience and sustainability by targeting public and private investments to manage life-cycle costs.
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Editors: John W. van de Lindt, Ph.D., Mehrdad Sasani, Ph.D., Gordon Warn, Ph.D., and Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati, Ph.D.
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