Purpose
The purpose of this project is to better understand the availability of resources to meet the longer-term repair and reconstruction requirements posed by the built environment during the rebuilding of Christchurch. This project seeks information, on a quarterly basis, from the critical built environment sectors of residential housing, commercial building, and infrastructure on:

• What are 'problematic resources' during the earthquake recovery that have an impact on the reconstruction process?

• Where, in terms of sectors and project site locations, these 'problematic resources' come to play; and at what stage the project is progressed?

• How the indicators (attainability, usability, and accessibility) against the availability of these 'problematic resources' affect disaster recovery projects, in terms of construction cost, quality, and time?

• What issues constrain availability of the varied 'problematic resources', and thus obstruct repair and rebuilding from proceeding as intended?

• What would resolve and address these resource constraints from the point of view of the construction industry and disaster recovery planners?



The information from this project will enable the construction industry to form a view on:

• Potential future response to a large-scale disaster in the built environment, in terms of the timing, type, and scale of resources, capacity, capability required for repair and reconstruction;

• What might be required in place to support the construction market to maintain at a resilient level; and

• What might be required to reduce the impact of low availability of 'problematic resources' on the recovery for Christchurch and increase the benefit of formulating resourcing strategies in the construction industry.

• The future resourcing issues and options that are important to recovery for Christchurch following a large-scale disaster.


Objective
The outcome sought by this project is to assess availability of 'problematic resources' that are likely to have an impact on disaster recovery projects on an on-going basis, in terms of construction cost, time and quality; and benchmark the response of the construction industry to a large-scale earthquake in the greater Christchurch region.


Scope
Information is sought on resource availability for repair and rebuilding that is:

• Following the September 4, 2010 and February 22, 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch

• Within the greater Christchurch which covers three territorial regions: Christchurch City, Selwyn, and Waimakariri;

• Within sectors of housing properties, commercial buildings, and critical infrastructure systems (insofar as they draw on resources that are common to construction in general);

• Within two year reconstruction period.

The focus will be on 'Problematic Resources', including human resources, materials and equipment such as:

• Building materials

• Building products and components

• Specialized tradespeople / building services

• Construction professionals

• Construction plant


Project Design




The Resilient Organisations Research Group (ResOrgs) is a multi-disciplinary team of 17 researchers and practitioners, funded by government research grants and supported by industry partners and advisors. ResOrgs aims to provide New Zealand sectors and organisations to form a view on a built-in resilience, in the face of adversity. Please visit http://www.resorgs.org.nz/.

The post-disaster recovery and reconstruction research has been led by Dr. Suzanne Wilkinson at The University of Auckland. Our research helps communities prepare for, and rebuild after, a disaster. We understand what happens to the built environment that surrounds us and with which we are in constant interaction, how to optimise emergency responses to natural disasters, and how communities rebuild and recover after a disaster event. Please visit http://www.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/post-disaster.




Project Manager
Dr. Suzanne Wilkinson

Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1061, New Zealand
Email: s.wilkinson@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: 64 9 373 7599 ext. 88184

Dr. Suzanne Wilkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Auckland. Suzanne obtained her BE (Hons) and PhD in Construction Management from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research interests focus on construction contract administration and relationship management for construction projects. Suzanne lectures both undergraduates and post-graduate students in project management, construction management, construction law and construction administration. Suzanne has published widely. Her recent research book, co-authored with Rosemary Scofield, "Management for the New Zealand Construction Industry" published by Prentice Hall has been adopted as a training text at Universities and construction companies in New Zealand. Over the last 6 years Suzanne has co-led 'Resilient Organisations' research, working and supervising PhD students in the area of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.




Project Researcher
Alice Yan Chang

Research fellow
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Email: ycha233@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Phone: 64 9 373 7599 ext. 83288, or 64 9 923 3288

Alice Yan Chang is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. Alice holds a BE (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering and a Master degree in Management Science and Engineering from Central South University in China. Since her second year of college study, Alice had been involved in a wide range of research projects nationally and locally in project management and construction management. Alice had internship experience working for CARE International in Indonesia as a housing consultant to the post-tsunami recovery and reconstruction project in 2008. Under the 'Resilient Organisations' Research Programme, her doctoral research at the University of Auckland focuses on resource availability for post-disaster reconstruction, providing a cross-comparison analysis of resourcing approaches applied in Indonesia, China and Australia during their recovery from catastrophic disasters.




Project Advisor
Tony Fenwick

Email: tony.fenwick@ihug.co.nz
Phone: 64 4 479 9298

Tony Fenwick is a self-employed policy adviser and researcher. His main area of interest is the resilience of infrastructure companies and sectors. Tony has a background in energy and infrastructure policy advice working at the Ministry of Economic Development, and was earlier employed at the Reserve Bank in a variety of policy roles. He was also engaged in the programme on Infrastructure Resilience led from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from early 2007 to mid 2008. Tony had roles in Exercise Ruaumoko, New Zealand's largest civil defence emergency management exercise, which tested preparation and response to a volcanic eruption in Auckland. He also arranged the development of pandemic planning by New Zealand's infrastructure providers in 2006 and led the government's Infrastructure Stocktake in 2004. Tony's recent assignments have focused on infrastructure failure risk including risks from natural hazards, and development of national infrastructure resilience policy arrangements.




Project Advisor
Dr. Erica Seville

Email: erica.seville@rsrc.co.nz
Phone: 64 21 456 706

Erica Seville is a research fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury. Erica obtained her PhD in Risk Assessment and BE (Hons) from the University of Canterbury. After completing her PhD, Erica spent four years in the UK where she worked as a risk management consultant, providing advice for leading public and private sector clients, including London Underground Ltd, Railtrack, the UK Ministry of Defence, National Audit Office, Defence Procurement Agency, and Shell Gas Trading. Erica also worked with JP Morgan Chase in London managing operational risks during the trade settlement process. Erica is currently a member of the New Zealand Society for Risk Management and a director of Risk Strategies Research and Consulting. Over the last 6 years, Erica has led the 'Resilient Organisations' Research Programme considering the resilience assessment and improvement of organizations across New Zealand in response to emergency situations, with further details available at www.resorgs.org.nz




Project Advisor
David Brunsdon

Email: db@ kestrel.co.nz
Phone: 64 4 499 4433

David Brunsdon is a director of Kestrel Group Ltd, a consulting practice specialising in risk and emergency management planning for local and central government agencies and infrastructure providers. David is the National Engineering Lifelines Co-ordinator, a Past-President of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, and a member of Steering Committee for the Resilient Organisations Research Programme. David draws upon a wide range of experience across the building, infrastructure, emergency management and research sectors. David had led the Civil Defence engineering assessment team in Christchurch over the response period following the Canterbury earthquake, and prior to that he had experience in the 2004 Lower North Island floods, and many of the major earthquakes in the Pacific region, including Gisborne, Newcastle and further afield in Indonesia, Japan and Taiwan. The current focus of David's work is on the recovery following the Canterbury Earthquake. He is co-ordinating projects for the Department of Building and Housing and EQC in support of the residential repair and reconstruction process, and linking this with the work of the Natural Hazards Research Platform.




Project Advisor
David Middleton ONZM

Email: dm@kestrel.co.nz
Phone: 64 (0) 21 1896 176

David Middleton is the chair of the steering committee for the 'Resilient Organisations' Research Programme. Before joining Kestrel Group in 2010, David worked for the Earthquake Commission (EQC) for 17 years as Chief Executive, followed a twenty year involvement with the New Zealand Insurance Industry. His areas of specialisation are insurance and reinsurance, disaster recovery planning and the financial aspects of disaster recovery, public policy and research administration. During his time at EQC, David and his staff developed comprehensive catastrophe response planning and negotiated one of the market's largest property catastrophe reinsurance programmes. David is currently involved with the development of the new Natural Hazards Research Platform, and chairs the platform's strategic advisory group. He also represents New Zealand on the Global Earthquake Model governing board.




Project Advisor
Dr. Regan Potangaroa

Email: rpotangaroa@unitec.ac.nz
Phone: 64 9 815 4321 ext 7261

Regan Potangaroa is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Unitec, Auckland. Regan has a Bachelor and a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Canterbury, a Master in Architecture from Victoria University, and a Master in Business Administration and a PhD in Architectural Engineering from James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. Despite this academic background, his professional experience has been as a consulting structural engineer of more than 25 years experience gained in 13 different countries. In the last 7 years Regan has worked as a RedR Engineer to the United Nations in various disaster situations throughout the world such as in Aceh (following the 2004 tsunami disaster), Pakistan (following the Afghanistan conflict and again for the 2005 earthquake), Syria (at the time of the Iraq conflict), West Timor (at the establishment of a separate Timor), West Darfur (at the initial onset of internal conflict) and Geneva (with UNHCR). Regan brings real world experience and a 'sense' of disasters (both natural and manmade, emergency and post disaster reconstruction) to the Resilient Organisations team, and applies the lessons learnt overseas to the social and economic landscape of New Zealand.