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Solutions for protecting people, properties, cities, and the environment
Risk assessment
Climate change and sea-level rise
Climate change and sea-level rise
- Risk analysis and estimation of potential losses
- Accurate risk assessment models allow the estimation of potential physical, economic and social damages and support decisions for the protection of lives, properties, and public and private investments and infrastructure
Climate change and sea-level rise
Climate change and sea-level rise
Climate change and sea-level rise
- Flooding analysis
- Impact of sea-level rise in coastal regions.
- Efficiency and financial feasibility of adaptation projects
- Analysis of king tides in coastal zones
Earthquake engineering
We have delivered numerous solutions in earthquake engineering.
- Seismic hazard
- Seismic codes
- Dynamic analysis
- Structural retrofitting
- Seismic design of bridges
- Seismic isolation
- Public policies
- Evaluation of low-cost housing systems in seismic zones
Planning for disaster risk reduction
- Planning adaptation and protection measures reduce the risk of disaster.
- Risk assessment models support decision-making while planning to reduce risks and losses.
Emergency preparedness
Institutional Strengthening for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
Institutional Strengthening for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
- Planning: Risk analysis with accurate urban models is used during real-time disaster response to estimate impacts and initiate recovery operations
- Risk maps and impact estimates support response plans facing catastrophic events.
Institutional Strengthening for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
Institutional Strengthening for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
Institutional Strengthening for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
- We develop plans for governments (national and local) to generate Risk Management and Adaptation capacities per sector.
- Sectors: roads and transport, water supply and sewage systems, logistics, urban development, telecommunications.
Structural engineering
Urban planning for recovery after disaster
Urban planning for recovery after disaster
- Structural design of buildings and bridges
- Structural analysis
- Retrofitting
- Structural Pathology
- Dynamic analysis
- Project management
Urban planning for recovery after disaster
Urban planning for recovery after disaster
Urban planning for recovery after disaster
- Urban design after a disaster
- Environmental protection
Flooding and debris flow analysis
Urban protection against debris flow
Urban protection against debris flow
- Extreme rainfalls in mountainous regions can produce debris flows
- Unexpected debris flow can produce destruction and death
- Alluvial fans generated by debris flows modify topography and urban layout
Urban protection against debris flow
Urban protection against debris flow
Urban protection against debris flow
- Debris control requires a complex design of open and closed damns and channels.
- We develop urban design under debris and flooding control conditions.
Multihazard risk analysis
Probabilistic and deterministic assessment of losses produced by natural catastrophic events
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, flooding, and climate change-induced flooding, generate substantial economic, social, and physical losses every year.
Multihazard risk analysis allows the estimation of losses to support mitigation and adaptation efforts, urban planning under natural hazards, emergency preparedness, and is a toll required for minimizing those losses.
Multihazard risk analysis is used to estimate the potential impacts from catastrophic events and to evaluate the effectiveness of adaptation, preparedness, and response strategies.
First step: Urban models
High-resolution remote sensing and photogrammetry are applied to create accurate urban models needed for risk analysis purposes. ENRIR utilizes small unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for multiple purposes besides risk assessment applications.
Vulnerability and exposure
Extensive experimental and analytical research and empirical observation and assessment of past disasters support the definition of fragility and vulnerability curves that characterize the behavior of structures subjected to environmental hazards.
The vulnerability curves synthesize the probable losses produced by events of a given magnitude.
Hazard modeling multi-hazard: deterministic and probabilistic approaches
The magnitude and characteristics of Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and Flooding (including sea-level rise) are the natural hazards used to determine the expected losses.
Risk assessment: expected losses
The multihazard risk analysis delivers an estimation of losses:
- Physical damage (probabilistic assessment of the number of affected buildings, debris)
- Direct economic losses ($ in property values due to various levels of damage)
- Direct social losses (casualties, required shelters)
- Loss of functions (probability or days)