Last week UC Irvine received the “Spotlight On Collaboration” Award at the annual Risk Summit conference in Oakland, CA. This award highlighted the multi-department, collaborative effort to develop the campus Rapid Building Assessment Team (RBAT) and post-earthquake damage assessment process. While not all the partners could attend this event, the recipient list included Anne Widney & Bobby Simmons from Police Department, Joe Rizkallah and Terri Warren from EH&S, Jim Henderson from Design & Construction Services, Melissa Falkenstein & Ben Delo from Housing Administration Services and Allen Shiroma from Facilities Management.
The leadership committee (comprised of representatives from each of the aforementioned departments) met on a monthly basis throughout 2014 to develop a process to systematically evaluate the 567 buildings on campus after an earthquake. Buildings were evaluated and ranked based on a set of criteria: fire risk, lab risk, research replacement risk, response needs, and housing population/density. UCI coordinated with the California Office of Emergency Services to host the ATC-20/Structural Assessment Program course on campus and trained 30 staff members as building evaluators. Additionally, UCI developed a team training and functional exercise with structural engineers from Miyamoto International, to further prepare the RBAT team members to conduct post-earthquake building assessments.
The RBAT team is one of many examples of the emergency management collaborative efforts taking place here on campus. As we take a moment to congratulate this team for its outstanding work on the RBAT program, we also want to acknowledge the entire UCI emergency management community for its commendable spirit of resiliency.
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