The University of Canterbury has released a new Masters course Infrastructure Systems - Criticality and Lifelines, to be delivered later this year. Please find the course outline attached.
Please put Tuesday 28th August in your calendars. I’ve taken the liberty of drawing up a programme for our “Practitioner Symposium” day, and notionally put your name in there, for some of you I’ve suggest a topic. However the actual content I will leave to you.
A few things:
The proposed programme:
Tuesday 28th August
0900-0905 | Welcome and housekeeping |
0905-0935 | Roger Fairclough - International and NZ perspectives, Treasury |
0935-1005 | Mark Gordon - Canterbury Lifelines |
1005-1035 | James Thompson - Canterbury CDEM |
1035-1100 | Break |
1100-1130 | Orion? TBD |
1130-1200 | Irmana Garcia Sampedro - Christchurch & Kaikōura, impacts and lessons for asset management |
1200-1230 | Mike Gillooly - urban resilience |
1230-1330 | Lunch |
1330-1400 | Greg Preston - NZ 3 Waters initiatives |
1400-1430 | Rod Cameron - System for action |
1430-1500 | Rob Daniel - West Coast CDEM/Lifelines, Alpine Fault preparation |
1500-1530 | Break |
1530-1600 | Matthew Hughes - Lifelines research overview/co-creating knowledge |
1600-1700 | Synthesis, unifying themes, lessons learned |
1700-1830 | Drinks |
1830- | Dinner |
The includes a Final Project – Infrastructure Resilience Assessment, which will be due at the end of Semester 2 (i.e. several weeks after the end of the Block Course). This will use a resilience assessment tool for a given utility’s network/components. I would like to partner each student with a mentor/contact to do this. The goal is to conduct a resilience assessment of practical use to the utility.