StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events
Since its founding in 2018, the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has worked to deepen the capacity of the Natural Hazards Engineering (NHE) community for coordinated and standardized assessments of the performance of the built environment following natural hazard events. This...
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| description | Since its founding in 2018, the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has worked to deepen the capacity of the Natural Hazards Engineering (NHE) community for coordinated and standardized assessments of the performance of the built environment following natural hazard events. This paper positions StEER within the field of engineering reconnaissance and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), outlining its organizational model for coordinated community-led responses to wind, seismic, and coastal hazard events. The paper’s examination of StEER’s event response workflow, engaging a range of hardware and delivering a suite of products, demonstrates StEER’s contributions in the areas of: workflow and data standardization, data reliability to enable field-observation-driven research & development, efficiency in data collection and dissemination to speed knowledge sharing, near-real- time open data access for enhanced coordination and transparency, and flexibility in collaboration modes to reduce the “overhead” associated with reconnaissance and foster broad NHE community engagement in event responses as part of field and virtual assessment structural teams (FAST/VAST). StEER’s creation of efficient systems to deliver well-documented, reliable data suitable for diverse re-uses as well as rapidly disseminated synopses of the impact of natural hazard events on the built environment provide a distinctive complement to existing post-event reconnaissance initiatives. The implementation of these policies, protocols and workflows is then demonstrated with case studies from five events illustrating StEER’s different field response strategies: the Nashville, Tennessee Tornadoes (2020) – a Hazard Gradient Survey; the Palu Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia (2018) – a Representative Performance Study; the Puerto Rico Earthquakes (2019/2020) – using Targeted Case Studies; Hurricane Laura (2020) – leveraging Rapid Surveys to enable virtual assessments; and Hurricane Dorian (2019) in the Bahamas – a Phased Multi-Hazard Investigation. The use of these strategies has enabled StEER to respond to 36 natural hazard events, involving over 150 different individuals to produce 45 published reports/briefings, over 5000 publicly available app-based structural assessments, and over 1600 km (1000 mi) of street-level panoramic imagery in its first 2years of operation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cacac47e0ab64448a3f58fafe5fa8c542022-12-21T22:25:54ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Built Environment2297-33622021-05-01710.3389/fbuil.2021.636197636197StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard EventsTracy Kijewski-Correa0David B. Roueche1Khalid M. Mosalam2David O. Prevatt3Ian Robertson4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Keough School of Global Affairs, Integration Lab, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United StatesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United StatesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United StatesEngineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United StatesDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United StatesSince its founding in 2018, the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has worked to deepen the capacity of the Natural Hazards Engineering (NHE) community for coordinated and standardized assessments of the performance of the built environment following natural hazard events. This paper positions StEER within the field of engineering reconnaissance and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), outlining its organizational model for coordinated community-led responses to wind, seismic, and coastal hazard events. The paper’s examination of StEER’s event response workflow, engaging a range of hardware and delivering a suite of products, demonstrates StEER’s contributions in the areas of: workflow and data standardization, data reliability to enable field-observation-driven research & development, efficiency in data collection and dissemination to speed knowledge sharing, near-real- time open data access for enhanced coordination and transparency, and flexibility in collaboration modes to reduce the “overhead” associated with reconnaissance and foster broad NHE community engagement in event responses as part of field and virtual assessment structural teams (FAST/VAST). StEER’s creation of efficient systems to deliver well-documented, reliable data suitable for diverse re-uses as well as rapidly disseminated synopses of the impact of natural hazard events on the built environment provide a distinctive complement to existing post-event reconnaissance initiatives. The implementation of these policies, protocols and workflows is then demonstrated with case studies from five events illustrating StEER’s different field response strategies: the Nashville, Tennessee Tornadoes (2020) – a Hazard Gradient Survey; the Palu Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia (2018) – a Representative Performance Study; the Puerto Rico Earthquakes (2019/2020) – using Targeted Case Studies; Hurricane Laura (2020) – leveraging Rapid Surveys to enable virtual assessments; and Hurricane Dorian (2019) in the Bahamas – a Phased Multi-Hazard Investigation. The use of these strategies has enabled StEER to respond to 36 natural hazard events, involving over 150 different individuals to produce 45 published reports/briefings, over 5000 publicly available app-based structural assessments, and over 1600 km (1000 mi) of street-level panoramic imagery in its first 2years of operation.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2021.636197/fullStEERreconnaissancedamage assessmentstructureshurricanesearthquakes |
| spellingShingle | Tracy Kijewski-Correa David B. Roueche Khalid M. Mosalam David O. Prevatt Ian Robertson StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events Frontiers in Built Environment StEER reconnaissance damage assessment structures hurricanes earthquakes |
| title | StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events |
| title_full | StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events |
| title_fullStr | StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events |
| title_full_unstemmed | StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events |
| title_short | StEER: A Community-Centered Approach to Assessing the Performance of the Built Environment after Natural Hazard Events |
| title_sort | steer a community centered approach to assessing the performance of the built environment after natural hazard events |
| topic | StEER reconnaissance damage assessment structures hurricanes earthquakes |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2021.636197/full |
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