FloReTo – Web Based Advisory Tool for Flood Mitigation Strategies for Existing Buildings

2007 ◽  
pp. 371-394
Keyword(s):  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Web Based

Investigation of multiple flood mitigation strategies for an urban catchment using semi-distributed hydrological modelling

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elanchezhiyan Duraisekaran ◽  
Tamilselvi Mohanraj ◽  
Jeciliya Selva Kiruba Samuel ◽  
Sudharsanan Rajagopalan ◽  
Ravikumar Govindasamy
Keyword(s):  
Hydrological Modelling ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Urban Catchment ◽  
Distributed Hydrological Modelling

scholarly journals Analysis of urban flood using synthetic unit hydrograph (SUH) and flood mitigation strategies along way Halim River: a case study on Seroja street, Tanjung Senang District

2021 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 07015
Author(s):  
Dian Pratiwi ◽  
Arniza Fitri ◽  
Arlina Phelia ◽  
Nabila Annisa Amara Adma ◽  
Kastamto
Keyword(s):  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Trigger Factor ◽  
Urban Flooding ◽  
Unit Hydrograph ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Flood Discharge ◽  
Absorption Area ◽  
Synthetic Unit Hydrograph

In the urban area, flooding becomes the most common disaster that has not been resolved until today. The utilization of river border area into housing and lack of absorption area becomes the trigger factor of urban flooding, as what is happening around Way Halim River on Seroja street. In this area, floods often happen during the rainy season, with the latest events recorded on January 21st, 2021. Analysis of flood intensities and discharges can be parameters for the decision-making of flood mitigation strategies. This study aims to analyze the flood discharges along Way Halim River, Seroja street by comparing the flood discharges resulting from three analysis methods of Synthetic Unit Hydrograph (SUH) including Gama I SUH, Nakayasu SUH, and Snyder SUH. Finally, suitable flood mitigation strategies were also proposed in this study based on the flood discharges and rain intensities. The results showed that Nakayasu SUH had the highest peak flood discharge than Snyder SUH and Gama I SUH. Based on the results of the investigation of land suitability; and analysis of rainfall intensities and flood discharges, the proposed flood mitigation in Seroja street is by installing biopore infiltration holes along Seroja street for storing water and reducing the risk of flooding in the area.

scholarly journals Management of Cardiac Implantable Electrical Devices in Patients Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation for Spine Pain: Physician Survey and Review of Guidelines

2020 ◽  
Vol 4;23 (7;4) ◽  
pp. E335-E342
Author(s):  
Jason Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Radiofrequency Ablation ◽  
Joint Pain ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Electrical Devices ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies

Background: More patients with cardiac implantable electrical devices (CIEDs) are presenting to spine and pain practices for radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures for chronic pain. Although the potential for electromagnetic interference (EMI) affecting CIED function is known with RFA procedures, available guidelines do not specifically address CIED management for percutaneous RFA for zygapophyseal (z-joint) joint pain, and thus physician practice may vary. Objectives: To better understand current practices of physicians who perform RFA for chronic z-joint pain with respect to management of CIEDs. Perioperative CIED management guidelines are also reviewed to specifically address risk mitigation strategies for potential EMI created by ambulatory percutaneous spine RFA procedures. Study Design: Web-based provider survey and narrative review. Setting: Multispecialty pain clinic, academic medical center. Methods: A web-based survey was created using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap). A survey link was provided via e-mail to active members of the Spine Intervention Society (SIS), American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, as well as distributed freely to community Pain Physicians and any receptive academic departments of PM&R or Anesthesiology. The narrative review summarizes pertinent case series, review articles, a SIS recommendation statement, and multi-specialty peri-operative guidelines as they relate specifically to spine RFA procedures. Results: A total of 197 clinicians participated in the survey from diverse clinical backgrounds, including anesthesiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology, neurosurgery, and neurology, with 81% reporting fellowship training. Survey responses indicate wide variability in provider management of CIEDs before, during, and after RFA for z-joint pain. Respondents indicated they would like more specific guidelines to aid in management and decision-making around CIEDs and spine RFA procedures. Literature review yielded several practice guidelines related to perioperative management of CIEDs, but no specific guideline for percutaneous spine RFA procedures. However, combining the risk mitigation strategies provided in these guidelines, with interventional pain physician clinical experience allows for reasonable management recommendations to aid in decision-making. Limitations: Although this manuscript can serve as a review of CIEDs and aid in management decisions in patients with CIEDs, it is not a clinical practice guideline. Conclusions: Practice patterns vary regarding CIED management in ambulatory spine RFA procedures. CIED presence is not a contraindication for spine RFA but does increase the complexity of a spine RFA procedure and necessitates some added precautions. Key words: Radiofrequency ablation, neurotomy, cardiac implantable electrical device, zygapophyseal joint, spondylosis, neck pain, low back pain, chronic pain

Guidance for Human Action Evaluations for External Flood Risk Assessment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond E. Schneider ◽  
Srinivasa Visweswaran ◽  
John Fluehr ◽  
H. Alan Hackerott
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Human Reliability Analysis ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Investment Protection ◽  
Performance Shaping Factors ◽  
Flooding Hazards

For many years external flooding hazards have been recognized as significant contributors to plant risk. However, it was not until the events at Fukushima that there was a concerted effort on the part of the utilities to reassess the plant external flood design basis, identify external flood vulnerabilities and take actions to address them. For many plants, resolution of low probability high consequence floods will likely be addressed by a combination of actions involving enhancements to flood protection and hazard mitigation strategies. Over time, as plants decide on which strategies to apply there is an expectation that the most effective way to develop and justify these strategies will involve probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) concepts. The PRA framework is well suited for performing a human reliability analysis (HRA). Within that framework, HRA evaluations focus on operator and plant staff actions taken in response to plant initiating events (e.g., loss of offsite power, etc.). For many external floods, advance warning of an impending external flood event provides the trigger for pre-emptive manual actions to potentially reconfigure the plant through temporary installation of flood barriers. Unlike the post-initiator actions which tend to be more narrowly focused, these pre-emptive actions are taken in a less controlled environment, may be ad hoc, and may potentially be in competition with site investment protection activities, site evacuation, etc. The purpose of this paper is to define the challenges in defining an approach for treating external flood actions, identifying external flood timelines, identifying the manual actions/organizational environment during external flooding scenarios and proposing an integrated strategy for quantifying those actions. The proposed quantification process is rooted in management science concepts for evaluating project reliability. The overall methodology identifies flood significant performance shaping factors, and identifies three (3) factors, namely time available for flood mitigation, proper access to plant site following flood and environmental factors, as having an overarching impact on the performance shaping factors affecting each of the flood mitigation tasks.

NYC Transit Flood Resiliency: Case Studies of Recently Completed Mitigation Strategies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Savery
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Hurricane Sandy ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Storm Event ◽  
Design Flood ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Flood Depth ◽  
Deployment Time

<p>MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) suffered significant damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and hired Arup to design flood mitigation strategies for various system vulnerabilities.</p><p>Arup developed innovative permanent solutions to mitigate the various system vulnerabilities identified, including working with specialty fabricators to develop products for these specific purposes in order to provide the required protection of up to 14 feet of flood depth.</p><p>These efforts have resulted in innovate, new, purpose driven methods of flood mitigation that were not previously available on the market. These new systems result in dramatically reduced deployment time ahead of a storm event as well as a significant increase in the performance of the mitigation including reduced leakage rates.</p><p>This paper reviews various system vulnerabilities present in transit systems and presents case studies for the various mitigation strategies that were developed.</p>

scholarly journals Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofit

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Tiago Miguel Ferreira ◽  
Nuno Mendes ◽  
Rui Silva
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Seismic Events ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Seismic Risk Mitigation ◽  
Risk Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Political Communities

Devastating seismic events occurring all over the world keep raising the awareness of the scientific, technical and political communities to the need of identifying assets at risk and developing more effective and cost-efficient seismic risk mitigation strategies [...]

scholarly journals Tensions Within the Ministry of Provenance: Reflections on Co-Creating a Research Game Together With Artists

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Wetzel ◽  
Khaled Bachour ◽  
Martin Flintham
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Web

Background. Research games are challenging to design as they seek to fulfil a research agenda as well as work as a game. We have successfully collaborated with a group of artists in a research game about people’s perception of provenance called The Apocalypse of the Ministry of Provenance (MoP). The web-based game ran for 6 months with a total of 1004 players signing up over its lifetime with 490 consenting to their data being used for research purposes. While the game allowed us to answer our provenance-related research questions, in this article we look at the game design process of such a collaborative research game. Aim. The co-creation approach created tensions that had to be carefully negotiated between everyone involved. The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of these tensions, what has caused them, and how we managed (or failed) to mitigate them. This leads to recommendations for future researchers co-creating a research game with artists. Method. We use the form of a post-mortem reflection on the development of the game, based on our own experiences, a one-hour long interview with the two artists involved, and post-game phone interviews with players (n=8). Results. We identify the following three tensions that had a high impact on the overall process: 1) Translating research questions into engaging gameplay elements; 2) Creation of research-relevant content by artists; 3) Artistic vision conflicting with research agenda. We contextualize these tensions by describing six vignettes concerning our collaboration in rich detail that highlight the salient issues of the overall process and resulting game from different perspectives. Lastly, we present seven mitigation strategies on how to deal with the tensions or prevent them from arising. Conclusions. A collaboration with artists for the purpose of creating a research game is a rewarding but also challenging process. Overcoming the resulting tensions is possible by utilizing mitigation strategies that need to be implemented jointly between researchers and artists to guarantee the success as an engaging research game.

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