Community resilience planning guide for buildings and infrastructure systems

NIST Special Publication 1190-1:

This updated 2016 version of the guide provides a practical and flexible approach to help communities improve their resilience by setting priorities and allocating resources to manage risks for their prevailing hazards. Using the Guide, communities will be able to integrate resilience plans into their economic development, zoning, mitigation, and other local planning activities that impact buildings, public utilities and other infrastructure systems.

The six-step process helps communities to think through and plan for their social and economic needs, their particular hazard risks, and recovery of the build environment by:

• Setting performance goals for vital social functions - healthcare, education and public safety - and supporting buildings and infrastructure systems - transportation, energy, communications, and water and wastewater.
• Recognizing that the community's social and economic needs and functions should drive goal-setting for how the built environment performs.
• Providing a comprehensive method to align community priorities and resources with resilience goals.

A fictional community, Riverbend, illustrates the six-step process and how disaster resilience can be integrated into community planning.