Disaster planning and recovery
Global
From extreme weather events and terrorism to growing physical and cyber risk, we help clients and communities around the world build resilience through an extensive understanding of assets, risks and vulnerabilities.
Drawing on our global expertise, we’ve been at the leading edge of disaster recovery programmes for decades, helping a variety of clients, including the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United Nations, and communities around the world build resilience.
Since the 1950s, New Orleans has endured 11 named hurricanes and countless extreme weather events. Working with IBM, we developed the United Nations Disaster Resilience Scorecard for its Making Cities Resilient campaign. We used the scorecard, which provides a set of assessments that help cities understand how resilient they are to natural disasters, to develop a detailed survey to assess the disaster preparedness and resilience of 208 businesses located on six historic commercial corridors within New Orleans. The survey results led to us making recommendations to improve the resilience of the business corridors to flood risk.
Our UK and Ireland teams also helped to recover and rebuild the British Virgin Islands, as part of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office response to hurricane relief efforts. Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017, we provided professional support to ensure the infrastructure on the islands could be restored as quickly as possible, as well as increasing future resilience. We conducted a series of intensive training programmes to key government departments and senior government officials, focusing on the benefits of adopting an asset management approach, increasing their asset management knowledge and enabling them to make informed business decisions for the long-term future benefit of the islands.
Our main objective of the disaster recovery support was to shape an asset management culture and influence asset management leadership within the organisations while equipping them with knowledge required to appraise and manage risks and to develop contingency and resilience plans to protect their assets in the future.