Continually increasing demands on infrastructures mean that maintenance and renewal require timely, appropriate action that maximizes benefits while minimizing cost. To be as well informed as possible, decision-makers must have an optimal understanding of an infrastructure's condition-what it is now, and what it is expected to be in the future.

Written by two highly respected engineers, the first volume, Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering: Theory and Components, integrates the decision making concept into theoretical and practical issues.

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Prepared by the Building Rating Security Committee (BRSC) of the Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE.

This Manual of Practice presents a building security rating system (BSRS) that can be used to improve the security of buildings and occupants subjected to violent attack. The BSRS offers a comprehensive method to account for threats and hazards, consequences and impacts, and vulnerability and mitigation as related to building security. In doing so, it provides a quantifiable measure of building security status. Multidisciplinary in scope, the BSRS uses a rigorous risk-based...

Sponsored by the Objective Resilience Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCEObjective Resilience: Applications, MOP 149, provides different applications that aim to enhance community and asset resilience from the community viewpoint, then offers a comprehensive set of practices after presenting and discussing the basis for those practices. Topics include methods of community resilience; blast-hazard resilience; pandemics, earthquakes, and healthcare community response; confluence of transportation infrastructure and climate related hazards; resilience of mass transit...