EAGER: Joint Hazard Mitigation in the Era of COVID-19: Implications for Engineered Structures and Services

EAGER：COVID-19 时代的联合减灾：对工程结构和服务的影响

• 批准号: 2041666
• 负责人: David Mendonca
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2041666&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Joint; Hazard; Mitigation; Era

Much emphasis during the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has rightly been on traditional public health efforts at controlling it; however, less prominent but no less vital is the role of the built environment itself in both amplifying and suppressing the effects of COVID-19. In the former case, this includes densely-packed, highly centralized physical work spaces, while in the latter this includes adaptive use of decentralized physical work spaces (such as private homes) or virtual ones (as for online learning). The prospect of co-occurrence of natural hazards (such as hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes) during the COVID-19 regime is likely to strain and possibly confound ongoing and future response efforts. Accordingly, this EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) will explore the role of engineered structures and services within the built environment in order to improve efforts to prevent pandemic joint hazards from becoming societal disasters. This will require basic research in exploring new theories, methods, data and technologies for supporting mitigation, together with collaborations with multiple organizations, including the NSF-supported Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure and its components (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org). This project will contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP). This project will develop and disseminate a research framework and corresponding research agenda to support improved understanding of the role of the built environment in mitigating or amplifying risks associated with pandemic joint hazards. Case study data will be collected and analyzed, leading to an initial research framework. The research agenda will be developed with close cooperation from a broad and diverse set of researchers and practitioners in the hazards domain, resulting in a set of fundamental methodological, empirical and conceptual challenges around this topic. The project’s potentially radical re-examination of contemporary notions of hazard mitigation and performance-based engineering, as well as its engagement of new interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the relationship between physical and virtual facilities/services in mitigating pandemic joint hazards, represents a high-risk endeavor falling well outside the intellectual boundaries of current civil infrastructure and natural hazards research. The results of this work are expected to spur new lines of inquiry in various branches of engineering, potentially informing advances well beyond this project. Ultimately, this project's holistic and contextualized approach will contribute to the design of a more equitable, functional and safer built environment, well suited to a future that is likely to be marked by highly disruptive pandemics occurring jointly with other hazards.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在应对正在发生的新冠肺炎疫情期间，人们正确地将重点放在了控制疫情的传统公共卫生努力上；然而，建筑环境本身在放大和抑制新冠肺炎影响方面的作用不那么突出，但同样至关重要。在前一种情况下，这包括密集、高度集中的物理工作空间，而在后一种情况下，这包括适应使用分散的物理工作空间(如私人住宅)或虚拟工作空间(如在线学习)。在新冠肺炎期间同时发生自然灾害(如飓风、龙卷风和地震)的前景可能会给正在和未来的应对努力带来压力，并可能造成混乱。因此，这一探索性研究早期概念补助金(AGERGE)将探索工程结构和服务在建筑环境中的作用，以改进防止大流行共同危害成为社会灾难的努力。这将需要在探索支持减灾的新理论、方法、数据和技术方面进行基础研究，并与多个组织合作，包括国家科学基金会支持的自然灾害工程研究基础设施及其组成部分(https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).该项目将有助于国家科学基金会在国家减少地震灾害计划(NEHRP)和国家减少风灾影响计划(NWIRP)中发挥作用。该项目将制定和传播一个研究框架和相应的研究议程，以支持更好地了解建筑环境在减轻或放大与大流行病共同危害有关的风险方面的作用。将收集和分析案例研究数据，从而形成初步的研究框架。研究议程将与危害领域广泛而多样的研究人员和从业人员密切合作，从而形成围绕这一主题的一套基本的方法、经验和概念挑战。该项目可能激进地重新审视当代的减灾和基于绩效的工程概念，并采用新的跨学科方法来了解物理和虚拟设施/服务之间在减轻大流行联合危害方面的关系，这是一项远远超出当前民用基础设施和自然灾害研究的智力边界的高风险努力。这项工作的结果预计将在工程学的各个分支中刺激新的探索路线，潜在地为远远超出该项目的进展提供信息。最终，该项目的整体和背景方法将有助于设计一个更公平、更功能和更安全的建筑环境，非常适合可能伴随其他危险一起发生的高度破坏性流行病的未来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

COVID-19 Implications for Research and Education on Engineered Structures and Services

COVID-19 对工程结构和服务研究和教育的影响

• DOI: 10.18278/jcip.1.2.6
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy
• 作者: Mendonca, David;Gomes, Jose Orlando;Kijewski-Correa, Tracy;Esnard, Ann-Margaret;ra, Julio
• 通讯作者: ra, Julio