Working with NIST researchers and partners from 10 universities led by Colorado State University, the Community Resilience Center of Excellence, awarded in February 2015, will accelerate the development of system-level models and associated databases to support tools that will help local governments decide how to best invest resources intended to lessen the impact of extreme weather and other hazards on buildings and infrastructure systems and to recover rapidly in their aftermath.
The centerpiece of the centerâs effort is NIST-COREâthe NIST-Community Resilience Modeling Environment. Built on an open-source platform, the computer model and associated software and databases will incorporate a risk-based approach to decision-making that will enable quantitative comparisons of different resilience strategies.
