Resilience of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Built Environment

Our built environment, including buildings and infrastructure networks, plays a significant role in our resilience to natural hazard events. This starts with the protection of lives during an event, and extends through to the rate at which buildings and infrastructure can return to full functionality.

The Resilience Challenge Built Environment programme is focusing on better understanding the performance of infrastructure components and networks under various natural hazards; improving our approaches to design, assessment and repair; and developing new approaches to inform decision-making and investment.

This presentation will provide an overview of the research in the Built Environment programme across vertical infrastructure (buildings) and horizontal infrastructure (networks). We’ll highlight outcomes so far from a few key research projects, and summarise next steps and opportunities for future collaboration.