Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems
The Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems has been prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It helps communities incorporate short- and long-term measures to enhance resilience through improvements to the built environment that the community depends upon to provide services and to meet social needs and economic functions. The guide, currently in draft form for consultation, sets out to build on, broaden, and bridge a community’s current plans for economic emergency preparedness and land use, and incorporates community-level plans to achieve a resilient community. It promotes integrated systems-level planning with the engagement of the entire community, regardless of the specific hazards a community is most likely to face. Finally, the guide assists leaders to better define risks, priorities, and pre-and post-event costs, and helps prioritize resilience actions for buildings and infrastructure systems.
The Community Resilience Guide recommends a community engagement process comprising six steps:
The Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems has been prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It helps communities incorporate short- and long-term measures to enhance resilience through improvements to the built environment that the community depends upon to provide services and to meet social needs and economic functions. The guide, currently in draft form for consultation, sets out to build on, broaden, and bridge a community’s current plans for economic emergency preparedness and land use, and incorporates community-level plans to achieve a resilient community. It promotes integrated systems-level planning with the engagement of the entire community, regardless of the specific hazards a community is most likely to face. Finally, the guide assists leaders to better define risks, priorities, and pre-and post-event costs, and helps prioritize resilience actions for buildings and infrastructure systems.
The Community Resilience Guide recommends a community engagement process comprising six steps:
- Form a collaborative planning team of public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders including the owners and operators of key buildings and infrastructure systems.
- Understand the situation, in both its social dimensions (needs of individuals and families for shelter, food, water, health care, financial security, education, and employment), and its built environment (sets of building and infrastructure that support community functions).
- Determine goals and objectives to guide community planning and implementation of strategies for implementation, and setting of performance goals to meet community needs in the face of disasters.
- Develop plans to address and prioritize gaps in performance, which may require administrative solutions as well as existing and new construction options to mitigate damage and improve recovery times.
- Prepare, review, and approve plans including opening up for public debate and comment.
- Implement and maintain plans for execution, including evaluation of impact, updating and modifying as required.