I am currently Chairman of ISO TC59 SC15 which is dealing with performance parameters for houses, but also a member of the TC59 Chairman’s Advisory Group which looks at the overall activities of TC59 which is concerned with the overall built environment.  At our last meeting the issue of resilience was raised and whether there is a need for international standardisation of terms such as ‘building resilience’ and ‘resilience of the built environment’, and of parameters which are used, if any, to specify and measure the performance of buildings and the built environment generally in respect of resilience. I offered to look at the issue before our next meeting in October.

 

It is appreciated that the term ‘resilience’ is a generic word which needs to be qualified in terms of resilience of what  against what.  Our interest is the contribution made by the built environment to the resilience of communities against natural events such as earthquakes, floods and tropical cyclones, what is meant by the resilience of the built environment and its components such as buildings and infrastructure networks  in this context, and the ‘resilience performance’ parameters that could be used for describing the properties of the various components in respect of their contribution to the overall community resilience.

 

We do not wish to reinvent the wheel. If anyone has already looked at this issue or knows of papers which deal with it, I would be pleased to hear from them.

 

I have attached a brief CV and a recent paper which will give you an indication of my background in disaster mitigation activities.

 

Regards

 

George Walker.

 

 

 

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