Improving school infrastructure resilience to earthquakes and flooding

Title: Improving school infrastructure resilience to earthquakes and flooding
Time: 10:00~12:00, 31 March 2025 (Beijing Time)
Location: Room B200, New Civil Engineering Building, Tsinghua University
The lecture will also be streamed live on the WeChat platform. Viewing instructions can be found: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HUtp34Al-d9QRx3VehDuEQ
Abstract:
The resilience of the school systems and the infrastructure that serves them to multiple hazards is the main research objective of the UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering. The research addresses the multi-hazard resilience and recovery of integrated school-road systems at the urban level or regional level. Flooding and earthquakes are identified as the hazards of concern. A combination of Bayesian network and agent-based approaches are utilized to develop a resilience and recovery model, adaptable to multiple hazards and different regional scales. The project aims to capture the physical state of the education and transportation infrastructure to estimate the resilience of the integrated system, incorporate the social elements that influence post-hazard recovery and to model the recovery trajectory in an optimal manner by coordinating the operation between school and road authorities. This framework can benefit the decision-makers as a quantitative tool to assess the efficiency of various intervention strategies to reduce perceived risk from multiple natural hazards. In the process, the project also aims to facilitate knowledge transfer and capacity building between the partners and local stakeholders. Two applications will be shown, one in Cagayan de Oro, a coastal city on the north coast of the island of Mindanao, Philippines, and one in San Pedro de Macoris province, Dominican Republic.