Center for "Infrastructure Sustainability and Resilience Research" (INSURER) was established with the objective of bringing together multiple disciplines for high-caliber research on sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructure. Resilience is the ability of infrastructure to absorb shocks and recover quickly to serviceability in the face of probable hazard events in their life cycle. In turn, sustainability is the ability of infrastructure to facilitate meeting society's present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Moving towards a resilient and sustainable society requires multidisciplinary research on probabilistic modeling and simulation of hazards, the performance of infrastructure, the ensuing impacts, and the process of decision making for recovery, on quantification of sustainability and resilience measures for the society, and on developing software tools for evaluation of policies on optimal enhancement of sustainability and resilience given limited resources. This is the primary mission of INSURER.
