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Development and Implementation of the Community Resilience Planning Guides
Purpose
Community resilience addresses the intersection of social science, engineering, economics, and other disciplines to improve the way communities prepare for, resist, respond to, and recover from disruptive hazard events.
This project focuses on the role that buildings and infrastructure contribute to community resilience. It examines how their performance impacts social and economic well-being and how these factors can guide the design of the built environment. NIST’s community resilience guidance documents and tools to support resilience planning for communities. Collaboration with communities, professional organizations, and government agencies informs future documents and tools.
When communities decide to become more resilient, they need an approach that helps them identify and prioritize options consistent with their goals. The Guide helps communities do that by focusing on the role of the built environment in enabling the community to recover rapidly from disruption. It provides a clear process for communities to better prepare for the future. See Full Project Description.
The following stories are prime examples of how the NIST Community Resilience Group is helping communities across the country prepare for a more resilient future.
Objective
Publish updated community resilience planning and
decision-making guidance documents that are supported by natural hazard and resilience planning & analysis tools, based on collaboration and engagement with end-user communities, professional organizations, and government agencies.
Products
NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems
The NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (Guide) provides a practical and flexible approach to help all communities improve their resilience by setting priorities and allocating resources to manage risks for their prevailing hazards. Volume I of the Guide describes the six-step planning process and provides a worked example to illustrate the process. Volume II is a resource that describes how to characterize the social and economic dimensions of the community, dependencies and cascading consequences, and building and infrastructure performance. Using the Guide can help communities to integrate consistent resilience goals into their comprehensive, economic development, zoning, mitigation, and other local planning activities that impact buildings, public utilities, and other infrastructure systems.
The Guide Briefs (GB) provide methods and best practices to complement the Guide, with additional rationale, guidance, and references for implementing the six steps in the planning process. The Briefs are numbered in the order that they are released.
General Guidance
GB 7 - Guide Use By All Community Types
Español: Uso de la Guía para todos los tipos de comunidades
GB 15 - Additional Applications of the Community Resilience Planning Guide
Step 1: Form a Collaborative Planning Team
GB 14 - Forming a Collaborative Planning Team and Engaging the Community
Step 2: Understand the Situation
GB 1 - Characterize the Population
Español: Informe de Referencia 1: Caracterización de la Población
GB 2 - Identify Social Institutions
Español: Identificación de las instituciones sociales
GB 5 - Assessing Energy System Dependencies
Español: Evaluación de las dependencias del sistema energético
GB 6 - How Communities Can Work with Communication Service Providers to Understand Communication Systems
Español: De qué manera las comunidades pueden trabajar junto con los proveedores de servicios de comunicaciones para entender los sistemas de comunicación
GB 10 - Linking Social Dimensions and Building Clusters
Español: Vinculación de las dimensiones sociales y los grupos de edificios
Step 3: Determine Goals and Objectives
GB 4 - Determining Anticipated Performance
Español: Determinar el desempeño previsto
GB 4A - Example for Determining Anticipated Performance
Español: Ejemplo para determinar el desempeño previsto
GB 9 - Summarizing Resilience Goals using Performance Goals Tables
Español: Resumen de los objetivos de resiliencia mediante tablas de objetivos de desempeño
GB 11 - Determining Building Cluster Performance Goals
Español: Determinación de los objetivos de desempeño de los grupos de edificios
Step 4: Plan Development
GB 3 - Existing Community Resilience Activities Identifying Solutions to Address Resilience Gaps
Español: Actividades existentes de resiliencia comunitaria Identificación de soluciones para abordar brechas de resiliencia
GB 8 - Overcoming Myths about Community Resilience Planning
Español: Derribar mitos sobre la planificación de resiliencia comunitaria
GB 13 - Resilience Gaps – Identifying and Prioritizing Closure of Resilience Gaps
Español: Brechas de resiliencia – Identificación y priorización del cierre de las brechas de resiliencia
Step 5: Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval
Step 6: Plan Implementation and Maintenance
GB 12 - Short-Term Implementation Tasks
Español: Tareas de implementación a corto plazos
Planning Guide Playbook
The companion Playbook is designed to be a practical, action-focused aid that helps communities follow the Guide’s six-step process. It can support communities looking for insights into resilience planning issues and help identify the most effective resilience-improvement projects. It can be used independently or with expert support and also provides ways to involve experts in the planning and implementation processes. The Playbook helps ensure all communities can benefit from the Guide’s planning approach.
Step 1: Form a Collaborative Planning Team
Templates
- Template 1-1: Forming a Collaborative Planning Team
- Supports Action 1-1 (Playbook pg.9) and Action 1-2 (Playbook pg.10)
- Template 1-2: Stakeholder Engagement Planning
- Supports Actions 1-2 (Playbook pg.10), Action 1-4 (Playbook pg.12); and also Action 5-2 (Playbook pg.46)
Step 2: Understand the Situation
Templates
- Template 2-1: Information Needed to Complete Step 2, Action 2-4
- Supports Action 2-4 (Playbook pg.19) and related information for Action 3-2 (Playbook pg.26), Action 3-4 (Playbook pg.32)
- Template 2-2: Identifying Building Cluster Template
- Supports Action 2-4 (Playbook pg.19)
- Template 2-3: Identifying Infrastructure System Template
- Supports Action 2-4 (Playbook pg.19)
External Resources
- Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard Guidebook (PIRS) Table 2.1 - Supports Action 2-1
Step 3: Determine Goals and Objectives
Templates
- Template 3-1: Buildings Performance Goals Table
- Supports Action 3-2 (Playbook pg.26), Action 3-4 (Playbook pg.32)
- Template 3-2: Infrastructure System Performance Goal Tables
- Supports Action 3-2 (Playbook pg.26), Action 3-4 (Playbook pg.32)
- Template 3-3: Identifying Community Hazards and Levels
- Supports Action 3-3 (Playbook p.31)
- Template 3-4: Summary Performance Goals Table
- Supports Action 3-5 (Playbook pg.35)
External Resources
- Boulder County Collaborative Resilience Design Performance Standard for Infrastructure and Dependent Facilities (2016) - Supports Action 3-2 (Playbook pg.26), Action 3-4 (Playbook pg.32)
- Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) Guide, Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 201 (2018) - Supports Action 3-3 (Playbook p.31)
Step 4 - 6: No Templates
Related Publications and Links
- The Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems
- The Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (Español)
Related Federal Disaster Recovery & Mitigation Planning
Contacts
General Information
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(301) 975-6078