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Enabling City Resilience through Building Performance
The document discusses how building performance can enable operational resilience by being tailored to user needs before, during, and after threats. It identifies various threats like targeted attacks, weather extremes, seismic events, and fires. It provides examples of performance criteria for different building and user types, like structures performing prior to, during, and after events, and tenants being able to reoccupy buildings the next day. The conclusion is that resilience requires defining threats, understanding user needs, designing for performance levels and threat levels, enabling business continuity, and improving community resilience.
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Enabling City Resilience through Building Performance
- 1. SANDFORD FLEMING FORUM StructuralResilience: How Building Systems Improve Operational Resilience
- 2. ENABLING CITY RESILIENCE THROUGHBUILDING PERFORMANCE
- 3. The Issues Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance The Issues • Identify the threats • Quantify building performance before, during and after the event • Who pays? Takeaways • Building performance can enable operational resilience by being tailored to user specific needs and requirements • Resilience is fundamentally tied to the user, and understanding what they need from the building in terms of performance
- 4. Threats Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance Targeted events Weather extremes Seismic events Fire Threats Each threat exists along a spectrum, that may change with time, and has different performance expectations along the range
- 5. Targeted Events Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Targeted Events • Curb side or loading dock event • Parking garage event • Carried event
- 6. Weather Extremes Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Weather Extremes • Hurricanes or tornados • Flooding • Cold and hot weather • Snow storms
- 7. Seismic Event Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Seismic Event • Life safety and evacuation • Continued operation of the facility perhaps without municipal infrastructure A performance-based approach can ensure business continuity during smaller events and better quantify the risk you’re exposed to
- 8. Fire Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance Fire • Life safety, property protection • Fire size, behaviour, and location • Active fire protection vs passive protection
- 9. Fire Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance Fire • Life safety, property protection The building code addresses life safety and property protection with prescriptive approaches that have historically proven satisfactory
- 10. Fire Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance Fire • Fire size, behaviour, and location Performance-based design can account for structurally significant, large fires. The results: cost savings, increased robustness and quantification of risk.
- 11. Fire Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance Fire • Active fire protection vs passive protection The structure should be generally designed to assume the active fire protection (ie: sprinklers) have failed.
- 12. Design Event andLocation Enabling City Resilience Through Building Performance Design Event and Location • Client or another party determines the size and location of the event for design purposes • May use established criteria such as the New York City Building Code Regulations or other jurisdictions such as the Israeli Building Code • Alternative may be guidelines by GSA, CTBUH or Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS)
- 13. Determine what isto be designed Enabling City Resilience Through Building Performance Determine what is to be designed • Structure • Exterior wall including glazing • Critical utility infrastructure • Tenants and public
- 14. Structural Performance Criteria EnablingCity Resilience Through Building Performance Structural Performance Criteria • Prior to the event • During the event • Post-event continuity of operation
- 15. Structural Performance Criteria EnablingCity Resilience Through Building Performance Structural Performance Criteria • Prior to the event • Day-to-day performance of the building. Occupant comfort and well-being • How quickly can the building be adapted to a changing threat level ahead of the event?
- 16. Structural Performance Criteria EnablingCity Resilience Through Building Performance Structural Performance Criteria • During the event • Life safety and property protection • Does the building need to remain operational during the event or is it acceptable to temporarily relocate and evacuate?
- 17. Structural Performance Criteria EnablingCity Resilience Through Building Performance Structural Performance Criteria • Post-event continuity of operation How quickly can people get back in and achieve their minimum, sustainable operating capacity? Ideally, the tenant should be back in the building the following day.
- 18. Lobby and PublicAreas Enabling City Resilience Through Building Performance Lobby and Public Areas • Assumed to be a relatively high risk space • Point of presence and camera surveillance • Assumed failure and protection requirements • No critical utility infrastructure in the space Architecture often drives large, unbraced columns and glazing with large spans – neither of which is ideal for mitigating the effects of a blast.
- 19. Tenant Spaces Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Tenant Spaces • Who is the tenant? • Performance requirement before, during and after the event • Is the threat internal or external • Availability of points of refuge, added stair towers, added stair width for fire- fighter access Commercial tenants are able to have procedures prepared in advance of events and can hold drills to increase preparedness.
- 20. Loading Dock andBuilding Services areas Enabling City Resilience Through Building Performance Loading Dock and Building Services Areas • Control entry and potential vulnerability • Proximity to building services • Is the loading below the tower area? • Is there opportunity for vent relief in case of an event? Does the loading dock need to remain operational during a flood or another event? Will surrounding infrastructure enable or hinder that?
- 21. Parking Garages Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Parking garages • Public or private parking • Proximity of the parking garage below the tower • Effect of column or slab removal
- 22. Healthcare Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance Healthcare • Highly vulnerable population • Ample preparation time for staff • Trend towards a P3 delivery for healthcare where operation and maintenance is accounted for ahead of time. The owner has an interest in enabling resilience and mitigating risk from threats.
- 23. Residential Towers Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Residential Towers • Different financial considerations • Demographic of the tower determines performance expectations • Market demand for maximizing vision glass
- 24. Residential Towers Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Residential Towers • Demographic of the tower determines performance expectations • Needs will differ for young professionals – typically not home during the day – or elderly, who are. • If some units are hotel suites, business requirements come into play.
- 25. Data Centres Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Data Centres • Zero down time permitted • Highly visible, high value target • May be designed to be expandable, which needs to be accounted for in the initial design Resilient design makes use of natural environmental protection when possible.
- 26. Who pays? Enabling CityResilience Through Building Performance Who pays? • Public as a taxpayer • Tenant • Building Owner • Insurance – but not every threat can be insured against
- 27. Conclusions Enabling City ResilienceThrough Building Performance 1) Define the threat 2) Understand your client’s needs 3) Design for performance levels required and for different threat levels 4) Enable business continuity of the organization 5) Improve the resilience of the organization and surrounding community
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