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You'll find some useful links at: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/other/planning/document_store/crisisplans.htm There is a lot of info from the US about post-Sept 11 there. Additionally several Universities in Germany and Czech Republic were badly affected by the recent floods, but there has been little information about how they coped other than the article below. Always assume the worst might happen to you! University of Central Lancashire Planning Office ran a conference on 'Disaster Planning in Universities and Colleges' some years ago and we would be interested in guaging support for another such event with some case studies of real disasters affecting universities. Please let me know if you are interested or have any ideas about such an event Mike Milne-Picken Head of Planning & Performance Review University of Central Lancashire PRESTON PR1 2HE Tel: +44 (0)1772 892391 Fax: +44 (0)1722 892943 [log in to unmask] www.uclan.ac.uk/planning -------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 19, 2002 Major Floods Damage European Universities By BURTON BOLLAG After days of catastrophic flooding in central Europe, universities in Dresden and Prague are surveying the damage they have suffered in buildings that have been submerged or washed away. The worst damage appears to be to the forestry department of Dresden University of Technology, the main institution of the eastern German city. The department is located in the town of Tharandt, a few miles southwest of Dresden. A normally small river there turned into a raging torrent, destroying the department's half-dozen buildings, including laboratories and a library. "Some of the buildings have only one wall left," Mathias Bauml, a university spokesman, said Friday. He spoke during a break as he and thousands of other volunteers placed sandbags to try to protect buildings in Dresden's historic center from waters of the flood-swollen Elbe River, which were still rising. The university's department of waste management, located in the town of Pirna, a few miles southeast of Dresden and upstream on the Elbe, has been affected as well. Its buildings were standing in more than three and a half feet of water. Rising waters also forced students at five university residences in various parts of Dresden to evacuate to other accommodations. Mr. Bauml says the university expects to begin its academic year on schedule at the beginning of October, except for the forestry department. Its 800 students may spend much of the fall term helping to rebuild their institution's unique 19th-century arboretum, which was destroyed. Mr. Bauml expects that some courses will be resumed in temporary classrooms, but not before the start of 2003. In Prague, the Czech capital, buildings housing three schools of Charles University, the country's main institution, have been flooded. The liberal-arts, law, and social-sciences schools are located on the banks of the Vltava River, which overflowed and flooded parts of the city. University officials, however, have as yet no clear idea of the extent of the damage, since police officers have closed off access to the flooded riverside. J.E. Purkyne University, in the Czech city of Usti nad Labem, north of and downstream from Prague, is located on high ground and was not flooded. However the university opened its dormitories to hundreds of townspeople who had to leave their homes when parts of the city were submerged by floodwaters. _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: http://chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2002 by The Chronicle of Higher Education >>> [log in to unmask] 26 September 2002 12:07:53 >>> Dear All As part of a process of ongoing review and updating university policies, we are looking at models of best practice for disaster recovery plans. Any assistance (or, indeed, copies of plans) would be welcomed. Many thanks Stewart Harper ========================================== Stewart Harper Planning Support Unit, Vice Chancellor's Office, Keele University, ( Telephone: 01782 583588 * Email: s.harper @ vco.keele.ac.uk http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/vc/ ==========================================