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Aurecon, together with Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), has received the Resilient Australia Business Award (Queensland Division) from the Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience. The award recognised an Australian-first resilience assessment of two of Queensland’s major infrastructure assets using the UNDRR’s Principles for Resilient Infrastructure Scorecard.
Developed with the support of Aurecon, the Scorecard is a set of assessment guidelines that support companies and governments to establish a baseline for the resilience of assets against potential disasters, to allow optimisations to be identified and prioritised.
Port of Brisbane and Silverton Wind Farm were selected to undergo the Scorecard assessment due to their significant contribution to Australia’s economic resilience and future. The holistic assessment provided the asset owners with a deeper understanding of the many dimensions of disaster risk: hazards, exposures, vulnerabilities, capacities.
An important aspect was providing insights into the effect of anticipated or unexpected shocks and stresses on both assets and how these may be addressed with coordinated resilience planning. Aurecon and QIC provided a range of disaster risk reduction strategies and recommendations for both assets.
The assessment undertaken using the Scorecard fortified the importance of interconnected service systems and identified a pathway of optimisation projects to support asset resilience in response to a multitude of disruptions.
"We are delighted to receive this recognition from the Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience,” said Oliver Blakely, Aurecon’s Project Leader.
"Our work identified the importance of facilitated collaboration between asset owners and third-party stakeholders to manage risk, and to introduce adaptation measures to respond to risk, for enhanced operational, asset, social and environmental resilience," Blakely adds.
"Physical climate risk means a focus on resilience and a proactive approach to stakeholder management is more critical than ever,” said Andrew Sellick, QIC’s Senior Principal – Sustainability, Infrastructure.
"It is important that an infrastructure platform builds resilience for its assets and people, however in many cases, vulnerability is not within the company’s control; instead, this may sit in the roads and broader infrastructure systems, which reinforces why collaboration and engagement is so critical.”
Going forward, the suite of disaster risk reduction strategies and solutions developed during this assessment are intended to help Port of Brisbane and Silverton Wind Farm owners, operators and investors to prioritise optimisation projects and, together with stakeholders, increase the resilience of both assets.
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