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Sponsored by ASCE Continuing Education and the Infrastructure Resilience Division.

INSTRUCTORS:
Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
Ali Mostafavi
Haizhing Wang, Ph.D.

Course Length:  90 minutes

Purpose and Background

This webinar presents and discusses research and practice related to creating and maintaining resilient lifeline systems. In part, the information exchanged in this session helps to answer the question "What is a resilient lifeline system?" This webinar features a collaborative study conducted by ASCE IRD CILSC to establish the characteristics of resilient lifeline systems. In this project, the participant identifies and categorizes 17 characteristics of resilient lifeline systems within organizational, technical, social, and economic domains. Each characteristic has a list of achievement indicators. The achievement indicators are shown to define the space bounded by the resilience domains (organizational, technical, social, and economic), resilience properties (redundancy, resourcefulness, rapidity, and robustness), and the event cycle (planning, mitigation, response, recovery, and rebuild). The characteristics and achievement indicators define attributes needed for resilient lifeline systems and can be used as a checklist to allow lifeline organizations to better evaluate their current level of resilience and what they may undertake to improve.

Primary Discussion Topics

• Discussion of what a resilient lifeline system is
• Overview of multidimensional aspects of resilience & the subset of dimensions relating to build lifeline infrastructure systems
• Identify and establish the characteristics defining a resilient lifeline system; Common characteristics and system-specific ones
• An implementable procedure and framework to identify resilience gaps for lifeline system managers and operators

Learning Outcomes

• Gain appreciation for the importance of resilience processes in lifeline utility and infrastructure systems
• Describe the organizational, technical, and social economic dimensions of resilience in lifeline infrastructure
• Understand the characteristics and achievement indicators of resilient lifeline systems and apply them in operationalizing a resilience program in utility and infrastructure organizations

Webinar Benefits

• Learn characteristics that define a resilient lifeline system
• Understand the different achievement indicators to improve lifeline system resilience
• Help the operators and managers identify the resilience gaps in their lifeline systems
• Enable the development of lifeline resilience programs, plans, and guidance
• Create lifeline system resilience checklists and brochures to operationalize resilience into daily routines

Intended Audience

• Mid to high-level managers of lifeline system owners and operators
• Lifeline system researchers and product developers
• Infrastructure system planning and design groups

Webinar Outline

• Provide information useful for creating and maintaining resilient utility lifeline systems.
• What is a resilient lifeline system
• Identify and categorize 17 characteristics of resilient lifeline systems within organizational, technical, social, and economic domains
• Identify achievement indicators
• Define attributes needed for resilient lifeline systems
• The difference between the current status and the target
• How to prioritize gaps
• Examples and case study applications