Abstract
Buildings and infrastructure systems support housing, business, government, industry, and other vital services in communities. The concept of disaster resilience addresses the way that communities prepare for and recover from disruptive events. Needs of citizens and institutions in a community define the performance requirements for buildings and infrastructure systems, including the recovery in the aftermath of damaging hazard events. However, current practice does not adequately address risks and reliability at a community systems level, interdependencies between systems, or the role each system plays in recovery. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has established a research program to improve guidance, standards, and tools that support community disaster resilience planning. The immediate research has been initiated with guidance documents to identify best practices and research needs. The longer term research includes development of metrics and tools for communities based on integrated systems modeling at a community level.
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