ASTM E3350-22

This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
Designation: E3350 − 22
Standard Guide for
Community Resilience Planning for Buildings and
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Infrastructure
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E3350; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
Communities with complex physical, social, and economic systems seek the means to develop
effective planning and decision-making processes that increase their resilience to hazards and reduce
potential adverse effects. This guide presents a process for communities to develop customized
resilience plans for buildings and infrastructure systems that recognize the social, economic, and
physical dimensions of a community and encourages the establishment of recovery oriented goals for
the performance of buildings and infrastructure systems after a disruptive event.
1. Scope process provides a framework for community resilience plan-
ning needs and is not intended to be prescriptive.
1.1 This guide sets forth a flexible approach for communi-
ties to develop customized, comprehensive resilience plans for
1.4 Limitations of Guide—This guide does not advocate or
buildings and infrastructure systems that include input from
specify any particular analytical methodology for ascertaining
relevant stakeholders; consider the social, economic, and
the performance of the built environment.This guide also does
physical systems of a community; establish community-scale
not directly address the effects of climate change, although the
performance goals that encourage recovery-oriented planning;
planningprocesscanincorporatesucheventsandimpacts.(For
and recommend processes to implement and maintain commu-
additional information on these processes to address climate
nity resilience plans over time as community priorities evolve
resilience planning, refer to Guide E3032.) This guide ad-
and change.
dresses buildings and infrastructure systems and how they
1.1.1 The social dimensions of a community should drive
support the social dimensions of communities, and considers
the requirements of a community’s resilience plans and the
how the elements of the built environment support social and
performance of its physical systems, especially during recov-
economic community functions. The application of this guide
ery. The identification of social functions is a fundamental
is intended to support community resilience planning efforts
element of developing community resilience plans that accu-
across a community’s interdependent building and infrastruc-
rately reflect priorities for recovery after a hazard event.
ture systems.Applications beyond this scope were not consid-
1.2 The guide process steps address how to (1) form
ered in the development of this guide.
collaborativeplanningteams; (2)evaluatethecurrentcondition
of social and built dimensions of a community; (3) determine
1.5 Units—The values stated in SI units are to be regarded
community goals and objectives for built systems and hazards;
as the standard. No other units of measurement are included in
(4) develop plans that address performance gaps and identify
this standard.
solutions; (5) prepare, review and approve final community
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the
resilience plans; and (6) implement and maintain resilience
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
plans.
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
1.3 This guide provides a process that facilitates priority
priate safety, health, and environmental practices and deter-
setting and decision making regarding the establishment of
mine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
community resilience goals and associated solutions. The
1.7 This international standard was developed in accor-
dance with internationally recognized principles on standard-
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E54 on Homeland ization established in the Decision on Principles for the
Security Applications and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E54.02 on
Development of International Standards, Guides and Recom-
Continuity of Operations.
mendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical
Current edition approved Sept. 15, 2022. Published September 2022. DOI:
10.1520/E3350-22. Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.
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