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This webinar was co-sponsored by ASCE's Infrastructure Resilience Division and ASCE Continuing Education

Instructors: 
Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
Ali Mostafavi
Haizhong Wang, Ph.D.

Course Length: 1.5 Hours

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

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• 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
• Determine 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

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

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

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]