Disaster Resilience of School Infrastructure

The main aim of SCOSSO is to develop an innovative, advanced, multi-hazard risk assessment framework for school infrastructure in the Philippines. In order to achieve this, the following objectives are proposed:

Assess the impact of earthquakes, typhoons and flood on school buildings through new analytical and empirical vulnerability models,
Investigate the enhancement of the multi-hazard resilience of schools through retrofitting of school buildings and disaster risk reduction education,
Disseminate a culture of safe schools and safe communities through demonstration of school retrofitting, training of local engineers, community/regional workshops, and educational campaigns,
Develop practical tools for multi-hazards impact assessment and demonstrate their capabilities by applying them to the case study of Cagayan de Oro.

The project is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) small grants scheme.

Research Team

Dr Carmine Galasso (Principal Investigator)

Prof Dina D'Ayala (Co-Principal Investigator)

Dr Arash Nassirpour (Lead Researcher)

Partners

De La Salle University; Prof Andres W. Oreta, Dr Lessandro E. Garciano

Xavier University; Mr Dexter Lo

Rescue Global; Ms Rebekah Yore

Location of Case Study

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

SCOSSO for Google Slides.pptx

Assessing Losses through 360 Footage of Non-Structural Components in Schools

SCOSSO Mobile App

Rapid Visual Surveying & Vulnerability Assessment of Schools against Strong Wind, Flood and Earthquakes.

Download it now from Google Play Store.

SCOSSO App Promo v.2.mp4

Publications

Nassirpour, A., Galasso, C., D'Ayala, D., (2018). Multi-Hazard Vulnerability Assessment of School Infrastructure, 11^th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE), Los Angeles, United States.

Nassirpour, A., Galasso, C., D'Ayala, D., (2018). A Mobile Application for Multi-Hazard Physical Vulnerability Prioritization of Schools, 16^th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), Special Session: Software for loss estimation: developments and applications, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Nassirpour, A., Galasso, C., D'Ayala, D., (2018). Increasing Seismic Resilience of Philippine’s’ School Infrastructure through Seismic Retrofitting, 16^th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), Special Session: Earthquake repair/retrofit costs, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Nassirpour, A., Galasso, C., D'Ayala, D., (2017). Multi-Hazard Vulnerability Assessment of School Infrastructure in Philippines, Building Resilience to Geohazards in the Face of Uncertainty Geological Society, London, UK.