• Preparedness
• Immediate Aftermath
• Reconstruction

 Disaster management skill sets: Preparedness

Planning - Citing developments, wherever possible, in safe locations; Technical and investment risk management

Building Control - Advising on proper building standards, taking account of reasonably foreseeable hazards, for example, in areas prone to earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, etc.; planning, supervision

Asset and Facilities Management - Asset and facilities strategies; Disaster recovery planning and testing covering all aspects of building occupation, including business continuity (in its industry-accepted broadest sense, to include communities).

Would you be interested in putting your skills to use with the humanitarian aid sector in helping prepare for or recover from disasters?  This could be just one of a range of interesting activities you could be involved in if you became a Chartered Surveyor.  To find out more see Membership.

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Disaster management skill sets: Immediate Aftermath

Spatial Data (assessing scale and location of destruction) - Rapid assessment of the extent of destruction from “before and after” satellite imaging and aerial photography, for example, immediate intelligence on damaged infrastructure

Dangerous structures - Assessing structural damage; e.g. which buildings are in danger of imminent collapse; Specifying emergency repairs

Business relocation - Property managers and estate agents pooling knowledge urgently to identify alternative accommodation (as seen, for example, following 9/11)

Would you be interested in putting your skills to use with the humanitarian aid sector in helping prepare for or recover from disasters?  This could be just one of a range of interesting activities you could be involved in if you became a Chartered Surveyor.  To find out more see Membership.

Would you like to volunteer your skills? Please read about BuildAction

Disaster management skill sets: Reconstruction

Spatial data – title; boundaries - Boundary demarcation to re-establish title to land when physical markers and any title records have been destroyed or confiscated; settling boundary disputes

Waste management - Demolition and waste management; recycling

Planning and development - Master planning, to avoid ad hoc, inefficient and unsustainable reconstruction; Advice on finance, development controls ; Asset and facilities strategies; Development management; Technical and investment risk management; Asset and facilities management

Construction procurement - Commissioning construction work according to best practice, involving due diligence to avoid misuse of aid; Strategic procurement, contract advice and dispute resolution; Prime contracting

Project management and cost control - Delivering completed projects on time and within budget to maximise use of aid; Programme, project and construction management; Commercial management, quantity surveying and value management; Safety, health and environmental management; Supply chain management; Risk management; Enabling technologies

Would you be interested in putting your skills to use with the humanitarian aid sector in helping prepare for or recover from disasters?  This could be just one of a range of interesting activities you could be involved in if you became a Chartered Surveyor.  To find out more see Membership.

Would you like to volunteer your skills? Please read about BuildAction