Abstract
M.Ing. (Engineering Management)
Even in developed countries, natural hazards triggers major disasters. It gets worse in developing countries, where natural hazards building codes and standards are not integrated from planning phases when constructing structures. With sustainable development under threat from the impact of disasters, urgent need to strengthen capacity for the realization and management of community and constructed structural resilience is critical. With the World facing disaster challenge, this research seeks to research, identify, and recommend an implementable Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Best Practice (DRMBP) with the objective to substantially reduce disaster risk.
The endless occurrences of natural disasters throughout the World motivate the significant shift from disaster management to DRM. DRM aims to substantially minimize the loss of human lives and economy by mitigating potential damages from disasters. While disasters are inevitable; through preparedness and mitigation measures, their rising devastating impact can be reduced. Promotion and support of science and technology-based methodologies to bridge technology gap in order to build effective DRM processes that can substantially reduce the loss of lives and economy is necessary. Currently, it is of concern that disaster losses are on the rise while science and engineering inspired systems, devices, and processes designed for mitigation impact from disasters are operational.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) (SFDRR) emphasize the four Priorities for Actions to reducing the losses and damages and ensure the building of resilience. To realize these, SFDRR recommend amongst many parameters technological measures for intervention in order to increase preparedness level (including early warning systems and evacuation plans) and prevention of new and existing disaster risk.
The disruptive technologies of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things (IoT), is encouraging innovation in different sectors. This Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solution has completely reinvented, transformed, and addressed most challenges faced in the World. Considered a technology breakthrough as regarded as an industrial revolution; IoT enables the transformation of an ordinary device to a smart Thing. While ordinary device remains working in silos and depend on human interaction, IoT infrastructure establish an interoperability environment where smart Things communicate and constitute real-time decision analytics...