Development of post-event building damage survey templates for geological hazards

Lin S-L. 2021. Development of post-event building damage survey templates for geological hazards. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science. 27 p. (GNS Science report; 2021/18). doi:10.21420/4RSE-R057.

Abstract
Rapid and profound changes in the technology used for data acquisition, computing and information management provides a platform that has the potential to allow communities to consider acquiring, analysing and managing data in new ways. Improving the collection and management of data, immediately in post-disaster reconnaissance and in long-term impact assessments, is central to enabling knowledge gained from such events to be used and applied to improve community resilience to future disasters. However, the lack of standards for post-event data collection has been identified as a significant gap to achieve the above efficiency, transparency and standardised end-to-end data management approach. To address this issue, this report documents the development of post event survey templates for buildings exposed to geological hazards. The proposed templates are based on survey forms found in published documents along with our first-hand experience from reconnaissance filed trips following hazard events in New Zealand and overseas. Regular update and further refinement of the proposed templates is recommended when better (or more) information from past event becomes available and/or from new data that will be gathered in future events. (The author)