INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR
FROM SCENARIO SELECTION TO VULNERABILITY AND RECOVERY MODELS OF COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

The Technical Committee on Disaster Risk Management of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and the Peruvian Engineers Association (CIP) are organizing this important event to be held on June 13Th, at 07:00 hrs. in Lima, 08:00 hrs. in Bethlehem and 13:00 hrs. in London

When an extreme event impacts a region, we rely on critical infrastructure systems for post-disaster damage assessment, disaster management, business interruption predictions, and long-term recovery of the region. And yet, infrastructure systems are themselves subject to the same perils that threaten the residential and commercial assets in the areas, and their vulnerability and post-disaster functionality recovery need to be studied to predict and mitigate the overall losses in the region.

This seminar will cover a series of studies aimed at performing quantitative analyses spanning the entire catastrophe modeling and resilience assessment spectrum, including scenario selection, vulnerability, and functional recovery, at multiple scales of analysis. The focus will be on the particular case of power transmission systems subjected to hurricanes. However, the application of the discussed techniques to other perils (e.g., earthquake, storm surge) and other types of assets (e.g., residential, transportation) will be briefly discussed as well.

PROGRAMME

Welcome Jose Machare Ordoñez –President of the CDRM-WFEO, Peru
Introduction Valentina Putrino – Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Ariel Re. Leader of Working Group 4 – Capacity Building del WFEO-CDRM, United Kingdom
Case of study Paolo Bocchini – Professor and Director of the Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience at Lehigh University.
Comments and questions From experts and the general public
Closing Valentina Putrino – Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Ariel Re. Leader of Working Group 4 – Capacity Building del WFEO-CDRM, United Kingdom

OUR SPEAKERS

Dr. Bocchini is Professor and Director of the Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience at Lehigh University. His research is related to the application of probabilistic concepts, computational mechanics, operational research, and other analytical and numerical tools to civil engineering problems. Currently, his main areas of focus are catastrophe modeling, resilience assessment, and optimal allocation of resources for the design, retrofit, and recovery of infrastructure systems subjected to extreme events. He also serves as the Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Lehigh University and as Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.
Dr. Bocchini’s research has been funded by NSF, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Institutes of Health (NIH), State of Pennsylvania, and multiple private companies. Dr. Bocchini has been elected Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, he authored the chapter on infrastructure interdependencies in the Objective Resilience Manual of Practice of ASCE, served in a committee of the National Academies to develop guidelines for the U.S. Congress to allocate resources to projects that improve resilience, and had a leadership position in the committee that published ASCE guidelines to incorporate the effect of climate change on the built environment.

OUR MODERATOR

Dr Valentina Putrino is currently a Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Ariel Re. She obtained her PhD from University College London (UCL), focusing on developing a framework for multi-hazard assessment of historic stonework structures. She currently holds the position of Chair of the EEFIT Committee, she is the SECED Representative for the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) – Committee on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM) and is also the designated liaison member between both SECED and EEFIT committees.