Campus case: Experiences from a
collaborative effort
Jorge Hollman (UBC – I2C Team)
&
David Grigg (Campus & Community Planning)
Acknowledgements
Dr José Martí,
Dr Carlos Ventura,
Dr. Brian Klinkenberg
David Grigg (Campus and Community Planning)
Katherine Thibert, Hugon Juarez, Alejandro
Cervantes, Lucy Liu, Nathan OzogMatt Shannon and
Natanella Vukojevic (Records office),
Erin Kastner and Doug Smith (UBC Utilities),
John Manougian and Allan Fairbairn (Hospital),
Rick Critchlow (Fire prevention services)
Tom Ziemlanski and Monica Tzocas (IT Services)
JIIRP – I2C members (Professors and students)
UBC campus case study
Why modeling UBC campus?
 The UBC campus shares many attributes of a
small city
 47000 daily transitory occupants
 10000 full time residents
 own utilities providers
 Information accessibility
 Good starting point before modeling larger
area, such as GVRD
JIIRP-I2C team goals
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Analysis of interdependencies among critical
infrastructures
Develop methodologies of analysis
Concentrate UBC’s infrastructure information in a
GIS
Analyze infrastructure interdependencies
Contribute to evolve from a culture of reaction
into a culture of preparedness
Campus & Community Planning
motivations to collaborate
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A fresh approach by academia to a problem
barely identified by administration
Build a bridge between academic and the
practitioners’ units (C&CP and Lands and
Buildings dept.)
To strengthen resiliency of community to
disaster
To build a model of a truly sustainable
infrastructure for others to follow
To root out the weak links and repair, replace or
strengthen
Campus people involved
General analysis flow
Identification of
Data Sources
. Structured Interviews
. Unstructured Interviews
. Participant Observations
. Analysis of Functional schematics
. Analysis of Operational procedures
Data Gathering
PEP matrix
GIS modeling
Channels and Cells
Modelling
. Simulation of failures
. Quantification of functionality
. Identification of Islands
. Channels and Cells status
. What if analysis
Campus Risk
Matrix
Scenario
development
Damage
assessment
Simulation
. Analysis of emergency
plans
. Estimated resources
. Estimated impact
Earthquake:
. Structural analysis
. Non Structural analysis
. Life Lines
. Performance analysis
Campus Networks: GIS
Campus Fiber Network
UBC earthquake damage assessment
Scenario development: Snow-Wind storm
Information Interdependencies analysis
Challenges faced by JIIRP group
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Information accessibility
 Where is it? Who owns it? Are they willing or allowed
to share it?
Information Redundancy & Standardization
 Partially overlapping versions of the same information
Definition of a common conceptualization (Ontology) for
the project
Critical knowledge is still mostly in the infrastructure
managers’ heads
Human/organizational interdependencies tend to be
minimized even though they are as important as the
physical interdependencies
Challenges faced by Campus &
Community Planning
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Discontinuity of the institutional memory
How does planning take a lead with
departments who really own the
problem?
Financing the fixes, from whose budget?
What are the challenges? We’re isolated
from the City of Vancouver – we have to
be self sufficient
Research interactions
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Successful
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Trust among parties
Fluid ongoing dialogue
Time availability
Preventive culture
philosophy
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Unproductive
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Readiness to cooperate
Eager to identify
weaknesses to strengthen
the system
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Efficient allocation of
resources
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Not enough trust
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Conflicting cultural
background
Security issues
Not perceived as mutual
benefit relation
Contrasting
conceptualizations
Reactive culture philosophy
Fear to recognize/share
weaknesses
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Conflicting cultural
background
Keys of successful associations
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Develop a common Specification of a
conceptualization (Ontology) for the
problem
Develop trust among parties
Share common general objectives
Create valuable outcomes for all parties
Strong commitment from all parties
Perseverance
Next phase – Selected Areas of GVRD
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Our challenge is to build the same
collaborative relation…
Your thoughts?