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Schools play a crucial role in a community as children spend their daytime there, and they also serve as evacuation sites and shelters after disasters.
Current Research Activities
香港六合彩 EPICentre has been involved in several research projects related to the disaster risks on school infrastructure in different regions.听These projects are being funded by the World Bank, EPSRC, British Council Newton Fund and other institutions. The overall aim of these projects lies at the core objective of听reducing the disaster risks to school infrastructure听thereby increasing their resilience.
ResilAI: Exploring the Applications of AI Techniques in Supporting Infrastructure Resilience
The ResilAI aims to investigate听how AI techniques can support research to deliver more resilient and sustainable infrastructure. The objectives are: (1) to devise a synthetic approach to collecting data for studying the resilience of ISTIS; (2) to propose the principles of data requirements for resilience prediction using machine learning (ML) approaches; (3) to identify the key drivers and reveal the mechanisms of the resilience of听interdependent social-technical infrastructure systems.
Affordable and accessible decision-support tool against hazard risks for local communities in developing countries
The UNESCO Chair in DRR-RE at University College London (香港六合彩) has teamed up with Dr. Ji Eun Byun at the University of Glasgow (UofG), Prof. Darren Chian at NUS, and Prof. Dexter Lo at Xavier University (XU), to secure the听听worth S$20,000 to initiate the听novel project "Affordable and accessible decision-support tool against hazard risks for local communities in developing countries".
Minimize education disruption following natural hazards
To understand the impacts of natural hazards on education continuity, the UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering delivered a project for the UNESCO Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, working together with different local institutions in the Dominican Republic, including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of the Presidency, and ONESVIE (National Office for Seismic Assessment and Vulnerability of Infrastructure and Buildings).听More details of the results can be found in the听.听This project was developed under the听听and was presented in a听capacity-building workshop听held in Santo Domingo in December 2023. The BERLAC initiative听aims听to strengthen the capacity of the local and national construction and policy sectors of six countries: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.
Structural and Functional Resilience of Schools in Nepal (SFRES-Nepal)
This project develops a holistic assessment approach for schools to assess the multihazard structural safety and functional adequacy. Functional needs and adequacy is equally important to structural safety as these affect everyday teaching and learning activities. This research project contributes towards the 4th of the Sustainable Development Goals, to provide access to quality education for all.
Completed Research Projects
- Global Library of School Infrastructure (GLoSI)
罢丑别听听(骋笔厂厂)听launched in 2014 by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) of the World Bank aims to boost and facilitate informed, large-scale investments for the safety and resilience of new and existing school infrastructure at risk from natural hazards, contributing to high-quality learning environments. The focus is primarily on public school infrastructure in developing countries.
At the global level, the GPSS Program has developed the听Global Library of School Infrastructure (GLOSI),听a repository of data and information about the structural performance/vulnerability of school buildings and alternatives to reduce associated seismic risk.
听repository is the outcome of technical ideas, analytical frameworks and continued research work developed by Prof Dina D'Ayala and Dr Rohit Kumar Adhikari at 香港六合彩听in collarobation with a research team led by Prof Luis Yamin at听, Bogota, Colombia.
- Safer Communities through Safer Schools (SCOSSO)
The main aim of SCOSSO is to develop an innovative, advanced, multi-hazard risk assessment framework for school infrastructure in the Philippines. In order to achieve this, the following objectives are proposed:
Assess the impact of earthquakes, typhoons and flood on school buildings through new analytical and empirical vulnerability models, Investigate the enhancement of the multi-hazard resilience of schools through retrofitting of school buildings and disaster risk reduction education,The project is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) small grants scheme.
Disseminate a culture of safe schools and safe communities through demonstration of school retrofitting, training of local engineers, community/regional workshops, and educational campaigns, Develop practical tools for multi-hazards impact assessment and demonstrate their capabilities by applying them to the case study of Cagayan de Oro.
- Philippines Resilience of Schools to Multi-Hazard (PRISMH)
The project, led by Prof Dina D鈥橝yala, supported by Prof Carmine Galasso, Dr Arash Nassirpour, Prof听Joanna Faure Walker, and academic teams at De La Salle University and Xavier University, aims to develop an advanced resilience assessment framework for school infrastructure subjected to multiple natural hazards in the Philippines.听The project investigates the effectiveness of buildings retrofit measures and social preparedness measures as means of preventing casualties, reducing economic losses and maintaining functionality of the school infrastructure and its role within the community in the event of natural disasters. In particular the project addresses risks from seismic, strong wind and flood hazards. The resilience assessment protocol will be used by civil protection and school authorities to improve their preparedness and implementation.
The PRISMH project is funded by the British Council (Newton Fund Grant Agreement Institutional Links) and Philippines鈥檚 Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for 24 months starting from 1st April 2017.
- Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience (INSPIRE)
The 鈥淚NSPIRE: Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience鈥� project, led by Dr Carmine Galasso at 香港六合彩 aims to develop an advanced, harmonized and science-based risk assessment framework for school infrastructure in Indonesia subjected to cascading earthquake-tsunami hazards. The project will also investigate hard (e.g., building retrofitting) and soft (disaster risk reduction education) mitigation measures to reduce casualties, economic loss and disruption to school infrastructure, thus increasing community resilience.
- China Resilience of Schools to Seismic Hazard (CROSSH)
The 鈥淐ROSSH: China Resilience of Schools to Seismic Hazard鈥� project, led by PI: Dr Carmine Galasso along with Prof Dina D鈥橝yala, is carried out through a case study in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County (Sichuan) with the aim of improving the understanding of seismic risk, and overcoming the barriers to increase resilience of schools to earthquakes in Sichuan province. This project investigates the physical vulnerability of school buildings, the effectiveness of different building retrofitting measures and social preparedness in terms of perceptions, perspectives and hazard adjustments of Chinese students regarding earthquakes.
The CROSSH project is funded by the Sharing and Learning on Community Based Disaster Management in Asia Programme (CBDM Asia) Phase II.
- Vulnerability assessment of masonry school buildings to seismic & flood hazards via Bayesian network
The project explores individual and combined flood-seismic risk assessment of confined masonry school systems. The study adopts applied-element method for physical capacity assessment at building level and Bayesian Networks approach for impact assessment at system level.
- Resilience of schools to extreme coastal flooding (ReSCOOL)
ReSCOOL (Resilience Of Schools To Extreme Coastal FlOOding Loads) is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative project with the aim of assessing the multi-hazard vulnerability of schools.
- SMARTnet Research Project
Comparison and Refinement of Hand Calculations with Computer鈥恆ided Simulation Models towards a Reliable Method for Seismic Design of Rubble Stone Masonry Buildings with Cement Mortar.
- Seismic Risk Mitigation Plan for School Buildings in El Salvador
The main aim was to design a short, medium and long intervention strategy to reduce the vulnerability of the educational infrastructure at the National level in El Salvador.
- Integration of Disaster Risk Management in Public Educational Infrastructure of the Dominican Republic
Integration of Disaster Risk Management in The Management of The Public Educational Infrastructure of the Dominican Republic (DR)
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