Disaster Resilience

NIST research focuses on the impact of multiple hazards on buildings and communities and conducts post-disaster studies to provide the technical basis for improved standards, codes, and practices used in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure systems.

NIST Issues Final Joplin Tornado Report, Begins Effort to Improve Standards and Codes

The Witch fire, the largest of the fires that occurred during the 2007 California firestorm

NIST leads several national efforts to develop guidance and tools to help communities improve the resilience of their buildings and infrastructure systems: Community Resilience, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP), Fire Protection and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), Wind Engineering, Progressive Collapse, and Disaster and Failure Studies.

Contact

For questions on community resilience, contact:
Terri McAllister
Program Manager
resilience@nist.gov

For Disaster and Failure Studies, contact:
Long Phan
Leader, Structures Group
long.phan@nist.gov

For questions on fires, contact:
Nelson Bryner, Chief
(301) 975-6868
nelson.bryner@nist.gov

For questions on earthquakes, contact:
John R. Hayes, Jr. ("Jack")
NEHRP Director
john.hayes@nist.gov

For questions on performance of structures, contact:
Long Phan
Leader, Structures Group
long.phan@nist.gov

For questions on windstorm, contact:
Marc Levitan
Acting Director, NWIRP
marc.levitan@nist.gov

Media Contact:
Michael E. Newman
Senior Communications Officer
(301) 975-3025