Community Resilience: Preventative Care For …...New Orleans, Louisiana “Reshaping a Resilient New Orleans” Goal 3: Transform city systems through better management, coordination,

Community Resilience: Preventative Care For Buildings &

Infrastructure

Maureen Roskoski, Facility Engineering Associates PC

George Huff, The Continuity Project

Nancy McNabb, The Continuity Project

Learning Objectives

• Discover how the NIST guidelines can enable community resilience planning

• Understand resilience planning is preventative care for buildings and infrastructure

• Explore the meaning of community resilience and the need for prioritization of resources

• Evaluate your community’s ability to respond based on case study examples

Speakers

Maureen K. Roskoski, CFM, SFP, LEED AP O+M, Corporate Sustainability OfficerFacility Engineering Associates

George B. Huff Jr., Esquire, MBCI, CBCP,The Continuity Project

Nancy McNabb, A.I.AThe Continuity Project

• Why: Risks of Not Planning

• What: Defining Community Resilience

• How: Community Resilience & Business Continuity

• Case Studies - Putting It All Together

Outline

What does that mean for a Community?

Are you READY?Nearly 40% of small businesses don’t recover from a disaster.

Risks of Not Planning

• Significant Financial Loss

• Damage to Reputation

• Inability to Recover Quickly

• Inability to Support Community

http://rare.us/story/these-before-and-after-photos-of-hurricane-katrinas-mammoth-trail-of-damage-will-leave-you-breathless/

Top 10 Threats

Source: 2017 Horizon Report, Business Continuity Institute





Outline

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Community Resilience

community resilience [kəˈmyo͞onədē rəˈzilyəns]

noun

the ability to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and

withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions.

What is Community Resilience?

Community Resilience

Goals of Community Resilience

Supporting infrastructure systems

Improving the built environment

Recovering systems functionality

Minimizing time to recover function following a disruption

Community ConnectivityNIST Communities Capital Framework

Political

Cultural

FinancialNatural• Natural resources• Stability of ecosystems

Financial stability of the •

communityAvailable credit at the •

community level

Built Environment• Buildings• Infrastructure

• Access and ability to influence distribution• Ability to engage external entities in efforts

to achieve goals

Social• Social networks• Trust among groups

and individuals

• Language, symbols, attitudes• Competencies and orientations

of local community members and groups

HumanKnowledge & skills of •

community membersHealth & physical ability •

of community members

Community Connectivity

Importance of Private Sector Businesses to

Community Resilience Programs

WHY? WHAT? HOW? Business community has the skills, finance, influence, and ability. Business community can mobilize resources, strategies and

solutions. Encourage businesses to improve their own resilience. Encourage businesses to improve supply chain resilience. Engage businesses as stakeholders in their community’s resilience

initiatives. Identify areas of common interest between public and private

sectors. Build trust and long term commitments between stakeholders.

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Business Continuity

The capability of the organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable

predefined levels following disruptive incident.

What is Business Continuity?

Source: ISO 22301 Societal Security Business Continuity Management Systems

Community Connectivity

Enabling Continuous Operations

Business Continuity

Public & Private Organizations.

Common Threats & Risks

Long term Resilience

Buildings & Infrastructure

Everyone Plays A Role!





Outline

NIST’s Community Resilience Guide

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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S.

Department of Commerce, Engineering Laboratory manages

a multi-faceted program, assisting communities and

stakeholders on issues related to buildings and the

interdependencies of physical infrastructure systems.

The Community Resilience Program, part of NIST's broader

disaster resilience work, complements efforts by others in the

public and private sectors. NIST focuses on research,

community planning and guidance, and stakeholder

engagement. See https://www.nist.gov/el/resilience/

NIST’s Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems outlines a practical six-step planning process

https://www.nist.gov/el/resilience/

NIST’s Community Resilience Guidance

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NIST’s 6-Step Guide suggests a formal, documented planning process for community resilience

Community Resilience Planning Guide

Risk-based standard

Assists stakeholders

Volume 1 planning activities

Volume 2 analysis & performance

goals

Economic Decision Guide

economic decisions

infrastructure investments

Planning Guide,

Volume 1

•NIST Special Publication. 1190

Planning Guide,

Volume 2

•NIST Special Publication 1190

Economic Decision Guide

NIST Special •Publication 1197

6-Steps to Community Resilience

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Businesses Help Make Communities Resilient

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Business continuity strategies, including preventative care for buildings and infrastructure of private sector organizations is one of corporate social responsibility.

National Disaster Recovery Framework recovery continuum [FEMA 2016]

Preparedness

Response

Recovery

Business Continuity and Community

Resilience Align

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Public sector planners may collaborate with key stakeholders

from local businesses and industry to:

Engage the private sector

Encourage businesses to achieve business continuity &

supply chain surety

Identify common causes and risk mitigation

Build trust and longer term commitments

Implement combined strategies

Business Continuity planning activities meet the needs of the organization.Community Resilience planning improves the resilience of buildings and infrastructure systems that support the needs of community members.

Community Resilience Planning

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Community Resilience Planning Activities

Step 1: Form a Collaborative Planning Team

Local Government

Business and Service Professionals

Community & Volunteer Organizations

Leadership Engagement

Business Continuity planning involves leadership, top management commitment and policy making.Community Resilience planning involves forming a collaborative team.

FEMA news photo


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Step 2: Understand the Situation

Social Dimensions: how social institutions meet community’s needs

Buildings and Infrastructure Systems: how built environment supports

functions of social institutions

Link Social Dimensions to Built Environment

Identify common building occupancies or uses.

Business Continuity planning focuses on understanding the context of the organization. Community Resilience focuses on understanding the connections between the social dimensions and built environment.


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Step 3: Determine Goals and Objectives Long-Term Community Goals

Desired Performance Goals

Community Hazards and Levels

Anticipated Performance Objectives

Summarize Results

Business Continuity defines requirements by analysis and assessment. Community Resilience defines long-term community goals, hazards and the desired and anticipated performance goals of the built environment and supporting infrastructure systems.

FEMA news photo


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Step 4: Plan Development

Evaluate Gaps

Identify Solutions

(Administrative & Construction)

Develop Strategy Implementation

Business Continuity and Community Resilience planning activities both involve prioritizing strategies, plan development and implementation. Strategies to address performance gaps may be administrative or construction solutions to improve resilience.

FEMA news photo


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Step 5: Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval

Document Plan & Strategy

Obtain Feedback & Approval

Finalize and Approve Plan

To ensure consistency with Business Continuity objectives, the organization tests and exercises their procedures.Community Resilience planning involves plan review via outreach strategies for public collaboration.


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Step 6: Plan Implementation and Improvement

Execute Approved Strategies

Evaluate and Update

Modify Strategies as Needed

Business Continuity and Community Resilience planning activities both involve plan and program evaluation and improvement, as well as taking corrective actions to update and modify strategies.

FEMA news photo

The Resilience Dividend

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NIST Community Resilience Economic Guide

Critical elements of proactive, long-term Community Resilience plans

Capital investments most likely to yield the greatest returns

Sum of net cost savings

Damage avoided

Secondary benefits reaped by the community.

Investments for Business Continuity more than offset the cost and contribute to Community Resilience.

Selecting Economic Investment Strategies

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Process steps:

1. Select Candidate Strategies

2. Define Investment Objectives and Scope

3. Identify Benefits ands Costs

4. Identify Non-Market Considerations

5. Define Analysis Parameters

6. Perform Economic Evaluation, and

7. Rank Strategies

Source: Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructures, National Institute for

Standards and Technology, 2015, p.15.

The Economic Guide provides a process for considering alternative methods for increasing community resilience through cost-effective investments in the built environment and infrastructure systems.





Outline

CASE STUDIES

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Norfolk, Virginia

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As a major military hub, Norfolk needs to ensure it remains resilient amidst rising

sea levels.

Population: 246,393 (2015)

Size: 96 square miles

Norfolk, Virginia

“Designing the Coastal Community of the Future”

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Goal 1: Design the coastal community of the future

1. Create vision for the city’s future

2. Identify innovative water management infrastructure

3. Create a place where people want to live, work and play

4. Redesign tools and regulations to achieve future vision

Design Create Advance

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Goal 3: Advance initiatives to connect communities, de-

concentrate poverty, and strengthen neighborhoods

1. Improve citizen access to information

2. Support community building efforts through technology

3. Connect the community through conversation

Norfolk, Virginia

“Designing the Coastal Community of the Future”

Goal 2: Create economic opportunity by advancing efforts to

grow existing and new industry sectors

1. Create multi-pronged economic development strategy

2. Nurture the city’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

3. Strengthen the workforce development pipeline

4. Reinvest and revitalize neighborhoods

5. Explore innovative financing methods

Boulder, Colorado

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Population: 107,349(2015)


In the wake of devastating flooding and wildfires, Boulder seeks a way to “bounce

forward.”

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Goal 1: Prepare all segments of the community for uncertainty

and disruption by encouraging community preparedness

1. Develop “mobile resilience lab”

2. Implement community preparedness training program

3. Incentivize local businesses

4. Develop rapid impact assessment capacity

5. Engage creative power to proactively address future risks

Boulder, Colorado

“Building on a Legacy of Innovation”

Prepare Capitalize Embed

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Goal 2: Capitalize on the collective problem solving and

creativity by leveraging advances in data and research

1. Create a “citizen science” program

2. Design and construct a local food system assessment

3. Invest in artistic visualization and knowledge display

4. Drive creative use through competitive challenges

Boulder, Colorado

“Building on a Legacy of Innovation”

Goal 3: Embed resilience into city operations and system

to transform the community’s approach to resilience

1. Create community resilience centers

2. Build climate capacity across the city organization

3. Integrate resilience principles into Boulder’s Sustainability Framework

4. Integrate resilience principles into Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan

5. Develop an integrated approach to managing ecosystems

New Orleans, Louisiana

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Population: 107,349(2015)


From Hurricane Katrina to frequent “boil water” advisories, New Orleans has

unique experience with major urban emergencies.

Population: 389,617 (2015)


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Goal 1: Adapt to thrive by aligning infrastructure and urban

environment with the realities of delta soils and geography

1. Leverage critical resources for coastal projects

2. Continue development of Urban Water Plan

3. Revise storm water regulations in comprehensive zoning ordinance

4. Establish resilience center

5. Promote community-based Green Infrastructure and Capacity Building

6. Incentivize business owners with resilience retrofit program


“Reshaping a Resilient New Orleans”

Adapt Connect Transform

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Goal 2: Connect to opportunity by investing in resilience

1. Create emergency savings account program

2. Implement digital divide innovation challenge

3. Launch integrated housing policy

4. Promote Community Health Improvement Plan

5. Increase access to fresh foods through Fresh Food Retailer Initiative


“Reshaping a Resilient New Orleans”

Goal 3: Transform city systems through better

management, coordination, and service delivery

1. Create pre-disaster plan for post-disaster recovery

2. Redesign regional transportation systems

3. Launch Downtown Energy Efficiency Challenge

4. Launch micro-grid pilot project

5. Establish Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Sustainability

6. Initiate Performance Management Programs

• American Bar Association

adopted Resolution 108 in

support of Community

Resilience initiatives in 2017

• Seek Support of Other

Professional Associations

• Webinar Series

• Book Project

• Search for Pilot Communities

Engagement of the Legal Community

• Engagement of the Legal

Community in Community

Resilience

• Implementation: Make Your

Community More Resilient

Business JurisdictionsCommunity

Engagement Associations Non-Profits

Working Together With Your Community

Working To Make Your Organization Resilient While…

Let’s Connect!

Contact: George B. Huff Jr.www.linkedin.com/in/georgebhuffjr

Email: [email protected]: 571-201-2554

Contact: Maureen Roskoskiwww.linkedin.com/pub/maureen-roskoski


Contact: Nancy McNabbwww.linkedin.com/in/nancy-mcnabb-aia


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