High Performance and Integrated Design Resilience Program Databases and Tools

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The High Performance and Integrated Design Resilience (HP&IDR) Program has developed a number of tools to provide guidance on building and infrastructure high-performance design and protection, risk assessment, and mitigation against multi-hazard events. The objectives of the publications and software tools developed under this program are to reduce physical damage to structural and nonstructural components of buildings and critical infrastructure and to reduce resultant casualties from impact by manmade and natural disaster events. The tools include:

• Owner Performance Requirements (OPR) Tool 
• Security Information and Technology Exchange Database (SITE) 
• Advanced and High Performance Materials Database (AMD)
• Ultra High Performance Concrete Project

Owner Performance Requirements (OPR) Tool

This Web-based tool allows owners to analyze a range of high-performance requirements (safety, security, energy conservation and renewal, environmental sustainability, durability, continuity of operations, and cost benefit) to meet their business case/model or mission. It helps owners evaluate the effects of changing goals and select the optimal envelope performance objectives for their proposed building. The OPR Tool lets owners set requirements, view results, understand interactions and cost, and develop an analysis-based plan for the design team. This tool is currently under construction and will be released in the fall of 2011. Previews can be found at: oprtool.org/demo 

Security Information and Technology Exchange Database (SITE)

This website provides access to best practices and information about existing and emerging products, systems and technologies that can provide protection for federal facilities. The ISC Products and Systems Database will be populated with products and systems that comply with the DHS Interagency Security Committee Criteria and the Department of Defense Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) standards for security. The Database will be searchable by product, manufacturer, industry standard, and ISC/UFC requirements. Federal agencies involved in the SITE include DHS, DOD, NIST, VA, and GSA. The website will be operational, populated, and fully accessible in the fall of 2011. Previews of this database can be accessed at: sitexchange.org 

Advanced and High Performance Materials Database (AMD)

This database allows for the overall coordination of the research and development of advanced and high performance materials. It provides a platform for the systematic organization of advanced materials through the documentation and search ability of their high-performance properties. These advanced and high-performance materials will offer increased resiliency by providing enhanced adaptation, absorption and recovery after catastrophic and disruptive events. This database will be officially released at the end of the Summer of 2011. Advanced information can be found at: advmat.org

Ultra High Performance Concrete Project

This project is being conducted in partnership with the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in an effort to develop an ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) material that will be affordable and competitive in the U.S. market. The final goal is to provide a material that exhibits high performance standards and can be easily used when an all hazard/integrated approach is required. It should meet performance requirements for explosives and other natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, winds, and fire. The benefits of this product include durability, fewer reinforcement requirements, and low project maintenance. ERDC is the lead of this project and is being implemented with the collaboration of universities and national labs, which include Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Connecticut, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratory. This effort will be significant in the protection of the Nation's critical infrastructure. UHPC has been used by private companies in the U.S. and overseas with excellent results for the protection and retrofitting of buildings and infrastructure. The main challenge of this project is to eliminate the barriers that are an impediment for the commercialization and decrease the cost of producing UHPC. More information can be found in the Ultra High Performance Concrete Roadmap to Commercialization (PDF, 23 pages - 2.02 MB).

Publications

• Aging Infrastructure: Issues, Research, and Technology (PDF, 490 pages - 45.79 MB)
• HP-IDR Program Brochure (PDF, 2 pages - 1.07 MB)
• Integrated Rapid Visual Screening of Mass Transit Stations (PDF, 219 pages - 16.55 MB)
• Integrated Rapid Visual Screening of Tunnels (PDF, 205 pages - 14.06 MB)
• Ultra High Performance Concrete: Pathway to Commercialization (PDF, 23 pages - 2.02 MB)
• Winter 2009 - Security, Energy, and Environmental Road Map (PDF, 9 pages - 1.57 KB)
• Winter 2010 - Journal of Advanced and High Performance Materials (JMAT) (PDF, 36 pages - 3.45 MB)
• Winter 2010 - Designing for a Resilient America: A Stakeholder Summit on High Performance Resilient Buildings and Related Infrastructure (PDF, 26 pages - 2.06 MB)

One Pagers

• Blast Load Effects in Urban Canyons - The Urban Blast Tool (PDF, 1 page - 1.14 MB)
• Building and Infrastructure Protection Series (PDF, 1 page - 656 KB)
• High Performance and Integrated Design Tools and Publications (PDF, 2 pages - 1.82 MB)
• Integrating Resilience into Building Infrastructure Design (PDF, 1 page - 573 KB)
• Integrating Resilience into Building Infrastructure Design and Construction (PDF, 1 page - 178 MB)
• Integrated Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings (PDF, 2 pages - 1.33 MB)
• Rapid Visual Screening of Tunnels and Mass Transit Stations (PDF, 2 pages - 980 KB)
• Retrofit of Buildings and Infrastructure in Large urban Areas (PDF, 1 page - 937 KB)
• Stabilization of Damaged Structures (PDF, 1 page - 635 KB)
• Ultra High Performance Concrete (PDF, 1 page - 970 KB)