THE HIGH PERFORMANCE AND

INTEGRATED DESIGN RESILIENCE

PROGRAM
The High Performance and Integrated Design Resil-
ience (HP&IDR) Program serves to improve the
security and resilience of our nation’s buildings and
infrastructure. The program’s overall goal is to bet-
ter prepare buildings and infrastructure to recover
from earthquakes, floods, and winds; explosive
blast, chemical, biological, and radiological threats;
High Performance
or other disaster event by analyzing and compiling
a range of high-performance requirements, includ-
ing energy conservation, fire safety, environmental
and Integrated Design
sustainability, durability, continuity of operations, and
rapid recovery.
Resilience Program
The program is supported by three primary para-
digms: 1) that it is possible to provide a built envi-
ronment that has the highest level of performance
Integrating Resilience into
and resiliency in a comprehensive and cost effective
manner; 2) that to achieve this, all facets of the pro-
High Performance and Integrated Building Infrastructure Design
cess, from design to operation, must be integrated; Design Resilience Program
and 3) that through high performance and integrated
design, infrastructure can achieve resilience from a
disruptive event.
INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
The HP&IDR Program supports resilience in new AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT DIVISION (IDD)
and existing buildings by promoting an integrated SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE (S&T)
approach to construction that addresses the capac-
ity of the physical environment to anticipate, absorb,
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS)
adapt to, and rapidly recover from a disruptive event. BIPS@dhs.gov
07/01/11
 THE HP&IDR PROGRAM IS WORKING ON A VARIETY OF PROJECTS:
Owners Performance Requirements (OPR) Tool. This containing analysis, calculations, and modeling that
web-based tool allows owners to analyze a range of high- take into account different sizes and shapes of explo-
performance requirements (security, energy conservation and sive threats, as well as detonation location.
renewal, environmental sustainability, durability, and continuity Building and Infrastructure Protection Series
of operations) to meet their business case model or mission. (BIPS). This series of publications provides design
The High Performance and Integrated It lets owners evaluate the effects of changing goals and professionals and owners/operators of critical infra-
select the optimal outcome. The OPR Tool helps owners set
Design Resilience Program (HP&IDR) is structure with state-of-the art research on protect-
requirements, view results, understand interactions and cost, ing buildings and infrastructure against terrorist
under the purview of the DHS S&T IDD. and develop an analysis-based plan for the design team. attacks. The series covers a variety of topics, such
Focused on new and existing buildings as protecting college campuses against shootings
Integrated Rapid Visual Screening (IRVS) Tools. These
and infrastructure, it works to establish user-friendly tools help law enforcement agencies, emer- and techniques for performing risk assessments for
an overall resilience strategy for the gency managers, facility managers, engineers, and archi- mass transit, tunnels, and
nation that incorporates high-performance tects to obtain a preliminary risk assessment rating for buildings.
buildings and infrastructure. The rapid visual screening
materials and technologies. In particular, n Preventing Structures
procedure can be used to assess the risk to a tunnel, from Collapsing to
HP&IDR strives to integrate and optimize mass transit station, or building due to a terrorist attack Limit Damage to
the high-performance attributes included in and evaluate the potential catastrophic losses (fatalities, Adjacent Structures
the Energy Independence and Security Act injuries, damage, and business interruption). The IRVS for and Additional Loss of
buildings addresses Chemical, Biological, Radiological and
(EISA) of 2007. Life when Explosives
Explosives (CBRE), earthquake, winds, floods and fires. Devices Impact Highly
Experts can use the IRVS Information to support higher- Populated Urban
level assessments and mitiga- Centers
IDD RESILIENCE PROJECT TAXONOMY tion measures.
n Integrated Rapid Visual
Ultra-High Performance Con- Screening for Mass
crete (UHPC). This material, cur- Transit (Available)
n Advanced Materials Council and Database rently in development, is a high-
RESEARCH AND n Security Information and Technology Exchange (SITE) n Integrated Rapid Visual
DESIGN TOOLS performance concrete that is being
n Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) Screening for Tunnels
formulated to be easily used when
an all-hazard, integrated approach (Available)
n Buildings (EQs, Floods, Winds, Fire, and CBRE) is required. The UHPC needs to n Integrated Rapid Visual
RISK n Mass Transit meet performance requirements Screening for Buildings
n Tunnels for explosives and other natural
ASSESSMENT (Currently only available
n Post Disaster Assessment Tool (PDAT) hazards such as earthquakes,
n BIM for First Responders
to a reduced audience)
floods, winds, and fire. Product
n Reference Manual
benefits need to include durability,
n Building Design for Homeland Security Reference
fewer reinforcement requirements, to Mitigate Potential
Manual
and low project maintenance. It Terrorist Attacks
n Primer to Design Safe Schools Against Terrorism and
BIPS Shootings Against Buildings
also must be affordable and com-
PUBLICATIONS n Blast Load Effects in Urban Canyons petitive in the U.S. market. (Summer 2011)
n Emergency Evacuation, Rescue, and Recovery
n Primer to Design Safe
n Aging Infrastructure Urban Blast Tool (UBT). This
tool lets law enforcement and first School Projects in Case
n Research conducted at ERDC, Georgia Tech, Sandia responders estimate the intensity of School Shooting
National Lab, Oakridge National Lab, and MIT of potential blast effects caused and Terrorist Attacks
UHPC n Working with North American UHPC group (Summer 2011)
n Working with private sector to deconflict standards for
by a suspicious vehicle, suicide
commercialization bombers, or packages left behind n Aging Infrastructure:
in an urban environment. The fast- Issues Research, and
Figure 1. Select IDD Resilience Projects running tool accesses a database Technology (Available)