An ensemble framework for improving the resilience of built environment in a community

Professor Ng, Thomas Shiu Tong   (Principal Investigator (PI))

Dr Xu Jun   (Co-Investigator)

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An ensemble framework for improving the resilience of built environment in a community

Construction Management, Disaster, Infrastructure Assessment, Resilience, Risk Management

Building and Construction

Engineering (E)

17248216

General Research Fund (GRF)

2016

Completed

1) To review the current community resilience practices and their strengths and weaknesses; 2) To identify essential built environment systems and components sustaining a community and conduct interdependency and cascading impact analysis; 3) To devise a set of resilience metrics for communities in developed high-density cities; 4) To develop an ensemble framework to facilitate communities conducting resilience initiatives and making informed decisions towards continuous improvement; 5) To implement a big data enabled software prototype system based on the proposed ensemble framework for community built environment resilience; 6) To validate the resilience metrics, the ensemble framework and the software prototype.