Disaster Risk Assessment and Structures

We are in an ever-changing world and recently, due to climate change, there has been an increase in the frequency of natural disasters. Floods, droughts, forest fires, typhoons and the like are becoming increasingly destructive. These are on top of naturally occurring events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides.

At Orient Research, our team focuses on helping our clients with the engineering and management aspects of mitigating potential disasters such as earthquakes. In engineering, we focus on better understanding the science of such disasters, historical failures, contemporary knowledge and cutting-edge materials and devices, and then applying them to more resilient designs to withstand these forces of nature.


For disaster management, we focus on transforming structural behavior knowledge, potential disaster scenarios, information gathering from implementation of early warning systems, understanding secondary risk elements after a disaster occurs, potential safe/protected exit routes, coordination with rescue and emergency teams, etc. into a plan to reduce the risk of loss of life. We have experience in various aspects of risk reduction from the projects we have been involved in over the years.

Disaster reduction services provided by Orient Research include:
• preparation of emergency management action plans
• structural and non-structural risk assessment studies
• design of structural health monitoring and early warning system
• assessment of safe protected exit route
• design of information system for distribution to all stakeholders
• training of trainers for emergency response