A Conceptual Framework of Facility Resilience Information Model (FRIM)
Abstract
Disasters have affected more than three billion people, killed over 750,000 people, and cost more than $600 billion over the past 3 years in the US. Research efforts have been made in the domain of community resilience attempting to mitigate disaster impacts at a community level. However, inadequate attention was drawn from researchers to the area of disaster resilience at a facility level. In fact, facility resilience plays a significant role because most social activities take place in such built facilities. A comprehensive model is missing to monitor and predict the resilience capacity of a facility and to coordinate disaster mitigation under extreme events.
This research aims to improve facility resilience by creating a conceptual framework of a facility resilience information model that helps facility managers and emergency responders to quickly locate necessary information (FRIM) for emergency response and recovery. FRIM is comprised of three main components: a central database that stores facility information, a data processing module that identifies a scaled Resilience Indicator (RI) for each key asset of the facility, and a visualization module that incorporates RI into FRIM.
FRIM is expected to improve facility resilience management by providing the facility management team with more approachable and accurate facility information, engaging facility occupants in crisis assessment and responding, and laying a foundation to achieve occupant-centered facility resilience management.
A Conceptual Framework of Facility Resilience Information Model (FRIM)
Disasters have affected more than three billion people, killed over 750,000 people, and cost more than $600 billion over the past 3 years in the US. Research efforts have been made in the domain of community resilience attempting to mitigate disaster impacts at a community level. However, inadequate attention was drawn from researchers to the area of disaster resilience at a facility level. In fact, facility resilience plays a significant role because most social activities take place in such built facilities. A comprehensive model is missing to monitor and predict the resilience capacity of a facility and to coordinate disaster mitigation under extreme events.
This research aims to improve facility resilience by creating a conceptual framework of a facility resilience information model that helps facility managers and emergency responders to quickly locate necessary information (FRIM) for emergency response and recovery. FRIM is comprised of three main components: a central database that stores facility information, a data processing module that identifies a scaled Resilience Indicator (RI) for each key asset of the facility, and a visualization module that incorporates RI into FRIM.
FRIM is expected to improve facility resilience management by providing the facility management team with more approachable and accurate facility information, engaging facility occupants in crisis assessment and responding, and laying a foundation to achieve occupant-centered facility resilience management.
