{"id":1204,"date":"2015-09-25T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2015-10-20T04:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:23:21","slug":"resilience-ratings-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Resilience Ratings are here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A\u00a0major recommendation of the Oregon Resilience Plan was the establishment of resilience ratings for building and communities. \u00a0The idea was to let people and communities know how well a particular building, structure or community would perform in the Cascadia Earthquake. \u00a0The goal was to\u00a0 help people make informed decisions about the acceptable\u00a0level of risk. \u00a0These rating systems are now being to appear. \u00a0The United States Resiliency Council (USRC) is\u00a0releasing its Building Resilience Rating System<\/a>\u00a0this fall. \u00a0The rating system is completed and the USRC are now in the process of recruiting structural engineers to become certified to perform the rating system. Their rating system has three components<\/a>: Safety, Cost of Repairs, and Time to Regain Function. \u00a0 Depending on performance, \u00a0a building will get ratings from one star to five star. \u00a0Similar to a LEED Rating, this information will be shown on a placard at the entrance to the building. \u00a0Rather than the abstract \u00a0“building meets code” you will know if loss of life is likely or not, up to a standard whether even injuries are unlikely. For repair costs, you will know if\u00a0costs are in a range of less than 5% of the cost to replace\u00a0the building up to or\u00a0over 40%. \u00a0For when you could expect to reuse the building, the ratings range from hours, to days, to weeks, to months to over a year. Like the LEED system, the goal is introduce market forces into seismic resilience. Currently, the seismic performance of buildings, even in places like California, doesn’t necessarily translate in the rents or sale of buildings.<\/p>\n

While the USRC Building Rating system currently focusses on seismic resilience, the goal is to expand it to include other other natural hazards. \u00a0A sustainability component is in the works as well. A\u00a0fourth category,\u00a0Energy and Carbon Consequences<\/a>, is being studied by FEMA, that will allow this rating system to tie directly into sustainability goals.<\/p>\n

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\"logo-large\"<\/a>The community rating system are not\u00a0as advanced as they are for buildings, but they are\u00a0appearing. \u00a0 The most impressive effort has been from OBP. Their first foray (with the help of Hack Oregon and others) was the Aftershock<\/a>\u00a0app in which you can look up your address and find out the level of shaking you can expect, along with the time frame of your community’s recovery and how to prepare. It is a pretty large-grained effort based on the data used for the Oregon Resilience Plan, but it easy to use and gives people the big picture. \u00a0To this, OPB has added a similar app called Schools and Hospitals At Risk<\/a>, which follows a similar format and allows to see the vulnerabilities of your local schools and hospitals.\u00a0There is also an app embedded in\u00a0their article about the vulnerabilities of Oregon’s bridges “Half Of Oregon’s Critical Bridges Could Collapse in Quake<\/a>” that lets you look at each bridge in western Oregon. \u00a0 For the moment there is not a methodology that allows a ranking system like the one for buildings, but it does get the information out there in an understandable way.<\/p>\n

This proto-community rating system has been part of OPB’s greater effort, Unprepared<\/a>, \u00a0that has been looking at Oregon’s lack of preparedness to a Cascadia earthquake. \u00a0Their effort and collaboration with the “hack” community of taking big data and transforming it into useful and accessible information offers an alternative method to that used by the USRC that is particularly adapted for community resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0major recommendation of the Oregon Resilience Plan was the establishment of resilience ratings for building and communities. \u00a0The idea was to let people and communities know how well a particular building, structure or community would perform in the Cascadia Earthquake. \u00a0The goal was to\u00a0 help people make informed decisions about the acceptable\u00a0level of risk. \u00a0These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,26,24,18],"tags":[121,44,117,41,122,115,25,118,116],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cascadia-earthquake","category-oregon","category-resilience","category-seismic","tag-cascadia-earthquake","tag-earthquake","tag-opb","tag-oregon-resilience-plan","tag-resilience","tag-resilience-rating","tag-sustainability","tag-unprepared","tag-usrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}