Campus case: Experiences from a collaborative effort

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Campus case Experiences from a collaborative
effort

• Jorge Hollman (UBC I2C Team)
• David Grigg (Campus Community Planning)

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Acknowledgements

• Dr José Martí,
• Dr Carlos Ventura,
• Dr. Brian KlinkenbergDavid 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)

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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

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JIIRP-I2C team goals

• Analysis of interdependencies among critical
  infrastructures
• Develop methodologies of analysis
• Concentrate UBCs infrastructure information in a
  GIS
• Analyze infrastructure interdependencies
• Contribute to evolve from a culture of reaction
  into a culture of preparedness

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Campus Community Planning motivations to
collaborate

• A fresh approach by academia to a problem barely
  identified by administration
• Build a bridge between academic and the
  practitioners units (CCP 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

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Campus people involved
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General analysis flow
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Campus Networks GIS
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Campus Fiber Network
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UBC earthquake damage assessment
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Scenario development Snow-Wind storm
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Information Interdependencies analysis
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Challenges faced by JIIRP group

• 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

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Challenges faced by Campus Community Planning

1. Discontinuity of the institutional memory
2. How does planning take a lead with departments
   who really own the problem?
3. Financing the fixes, from whose budget?
4. What are the challenges? Were isolated from the
   City of Vancouver we have to be self sufficient

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Research interactions

• Successful
• Trust among parties
• Fluid ongoing dialogue
• Time availability
• Preventive culture philosophy
• Readiness to cooperate
• Eager to identify weaknesses to strengthen the
  system
• Efficient allocation of resources

• Unproductive
• Not enough trust
• Conflicting cultural background
• Security issues
• Not perceived as mutual benefit relation
• Contrasting conceptualizations
• Reactive culture philosophy
• Fear to recognize/share weaknesses
• Conflicting cultural background

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Keys of successful associations

• 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

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Next phase Selected Areas of GVRD

• Our challenge is to build the same collaborative
  relation
• Your thoughts?