Designing resilient structures: mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in local design practices
This handbook makes use of risk-based knowledge to develop structural design approaches for enhanced resilience performance of structures subjected to extreme events of winds, earthquakes and floods. The developed resilient structural design approaches constitute a supplement to The Government of the Philippines' efforts for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation by way of risk management framework.
The handbook intends to:
- Supplement the government’s efforts in preparedness for extreme events and climate change, through the enhancement of the design of built assets capable of withstanding the increasing impacts of extreme hazards under changing climate.
- Introduce risk-based knowledge in developing resilient structures to reduce disaster risks and enhance adaptive capacities of structures.
- Support Local Government Units (LGUs) by taking into account disaster risk management and climate adaptation for the design of resilient structures (buildings and infrastructure), in addition to the minimal safety and service requirements of the National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP), as well as other standards and technical guidelines.
- Advance the practices of resilient structure design in local governments that generate long-term benefits greater than the adaptation costs for local communities.
- Provide an option of measurement on the aspect of enhancement in reconstruction performance for the Build Back Better (BBB) principle.
The first chapter briefly introduces the principles of risk management and the role of the developed resilience design in the framework. Chapter 2 presents the developed resilience design approaches for winds, earthquakes and floods, and Chapter 3 provides two illustrative examples to show how the resilience design could be applied in practice.