scope:

OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE

This manual of practice (MOP) has a primary objective of providing guidance for the design of hazard-resilient infrastructure systems, and enhancing the resilience of the existing ones for the purpose of meeting community resilience goals. It secondarily contributes to the development and enhancement of standards for infrastructure analysis and design, as well as regulations and building codes that refer to them, in a world in which risk profiles are changing. The MOP and such efforts contribute to achieving hazard-resilient infrastructure.

The MOP is designed to transform our infrastructure and make infrastructure hazard resilient, hence, the title MOP. The authors ruled out using disaster-resilient infrastructure as a title because the goal is to manage and act before facing a disaster.

The framework emphasizes infrastructure systems and how they support community resilience. Engineers design long-lived infrastructure.

The footprints of infrastructure have even longer-term influences. The planning and design of new infrastructure should, therefore, account for the projected future conditions related to population growth and changes in hazards including climate of the future. Engineering practice recognizes and accounts for uncertainties in the future conditions; however, the associated uncertainties vary from simple randomness to deep uncertainties associated with projections in the future related to population growth, energy use, and so on.