University of Canterbury new course 2018: Infrastructure systems - Criticality and Lifelines
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.
- Practitioner Symposium
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:
- I’ve scheduled 30 minutes each, it’s up to you how much seminar/discussion balance you want, but I suggest 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions/discussion. We’ll need to be a bit flexible. We can change the order if necessary.
- You are welcome to attend the whole day, and I hope you do. Breaks and lunch will be catered. It would be great if as many as possible could attend the 4-5 p.m. session on “Synthesis, unifying themes, lessons learned”.
- We’ll also take you out to dinner!
- As you start to pull together a presentation, please also compile a list of required/recommend readings for your topic.
- Those of you flying/driving to Christchurch, I can arrange flights and accommodation as needed. Please let me know.
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 |
- 2.Resilience Assessment
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.
