Establishing the resilience of facilities during
the operations phase of the facility life cycle is critical to managing and
improving the safety and security of all types of buildings and their occupants.
The Integrated Resilient
Design (IRD) Symposium: Measuring and Improving Resilience of Existing
Facilities, to be held Wednesday, January 8, 8:00 am – 11:45
am, as part of Building Innovation 2014:
the National Institute of Building Sciences Conference and Expo, will focus
on those experiences and practices that owners and operators need to both
establish and improve facility resilience.
Per the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), resilience is the ability to reduce the effects of the magnitude and
duration of disruptive events on the physical environment. The effectiveness of
a resilient enterprise depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to
and/or rapidly recover from a potentially disruptive event.
By accurately and consistently measuring existing
resilience, owners and operators can identify needed improvements and inform the
planning of new and replacement facilities if warranted. The Integrated Rapid
Visual Screening (IRVS) family of tools, developed by the DHS Science &
Technology (S&T) Resilient Systems Division (RSD), provides a framework for
identifying resilience of a wide range of facilities based on a multi-hazard
approach that incorporates interactions between facility characteristics. The
results provide a baseline for establishing relative resilience, as well as an
indication of deficiencies and a path to their mitigation.
Organizations ranging from municipalities to
federal agencies to school systems are applying the IRVS to measure and make
plans to improve resilience. The IRD Symposium will include case studies from a
range of these types of organizations. The program leader at DHS and the
development team will also present the latest IRVS directions to support the
needs of these organizations. The case studies and future development work will
help attendees understand how they can use the IRVS tools today and in the
future to evaluate and improve facility resilience to a full range of man-made
and natural disasters.
Speakers include:
- John C. Bremer,
Emergency Management Coordinator, Katy (Texas) Independent School District - Jason Crisco,
Executive Assistant, Connecticut Department of Administrative Services, School
Safety Infrastructure Council - Mohammed M.
Ettouney, PE, PhD, MBA, F.AEI, Dist. MASCE, Principal, Weidlinger Associates,
Inc. - Jeff Friedland,
Director, Office of Homeland Security/Emergency Management, St. Clair County,
Michigan - Roger J. Grant,
CSI, CDT, Program Director, National Institute of Building Sciences - Mila Kennett,
Senior Program Manager, High Performance and Resilience Program, U.S. Department
of Homeland Security, Science & Technology, Resilient Systems Division - Kevin Sean
Malloy, Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs-Office of Justice Services,
Department of the Interior (Invited) - Terrence P. Ryan,
Sr. Security Specialist, Raytheon IIS/CSM/UTD
Don’t miss the opportunity to get an overview of
the IRVS program and related family of tools; learn how the IRVS tools can be
used to evaluate, measure and improve resilience of existing facilities; hear
about the latest in IRVS tool development; and view case studies to illustrate
the use of the IRVS tools to measure and improve facility resilience, including
the new direction for schools, all at the IRD Symposium.
Register now to
attend Building Innovation 2014 and the IRD
Symposium before December 31, 2013, and save $100 or more off onsite
registration!