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The document announces a lecture on the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT), which was established after devastating earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010-2011. SCIRT was an internationally recognized collaborative recovery model designed by engineers and organizational specialists to address massive infrastructure challenges. The lecture will describe how SCIRT intentionally built collaboration across sectors to share vision and goals. It established commercial principles that empowered broad relationships and community engagement to support workforce resilience. The experiences of SCIRT offer lessons for post-disaster collaborative models, including navigating politics, integrating technical and social solutions, and maintaining purpose over time.

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Brunel Flyer v2 Mumbai

The document announces a lecture on the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT), which was established after devastating earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010-2011. SCIRT was an internationally recognized collaborative recovery model designed by engineers and organizational specialists to address massive infrastructure challenges. The lecture will describe how SCIRT intentionally built collaboration across sectors to share vision and goals. It established commercial principles that empowered broad relationships and community engagement to support workforce resilience. The experiences of SCIRT offer lessons for post-disaster collaborative models, including navigating politics, integrating technical and social solutions, and maintaining purpose over time.

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Date: 20th January 2015 at 6.

30 pm
Venue: Hall of Culture, Nehru Centre,
Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli,
Mumbai 400 018

Increasing risk is a dominant theme of the 21st Now in its 10th Series the ICE’s new Brunel International
century. Engineers are well placed to act as Lecture describes an internationally award winning post-
leaders of change to meet this challenge. disaster collaborative recovery model. The Stronger
Innovative forms of collaborative thinking and Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team – SCIRT -
action are required to mitigate, prepare for and designed by engineers, and organisational specialists, to
respond to crisis. meet the massive horizontal infrastructure challenges
created by the earthquakes that struck Christchurch,
New Zealand in 2010 and 2011.

TO REGISTER CONTACT Mr. Sanjay Rane: sanjayr@tataprojects.com


OR CONTACT +91 22 6625 5673
10th Brunel International Lecture Series

Collectively Engineers generating


collaborative solutions
to strengthen community
we are stronger resilience post-disaste

Increasing risk is a dominant theme of the 21st century. The experiences of SCIRT offer lessons for establishing post-
Engineers are well placed to act as leaders of change to disaster collaborative models that are transferable to other
meet this challenge. Innovative forms of collaborative contexts and sectors. They offer insights into some of the key
thinking and action are required to mitigate, prepare for challenges faced by post-disaster leadership such as:
and respond to crisis.
n Navigating the highly political post-disaster context to generate
This paper describes an internationally award winning post- a mandate for new collaborative/innovative approaches
disaster collaborative recovery model [The Stronger Christchurch n Integrating engineering technical solutions with well-resourced
Infrastructure Rebuild Team - SCIRT] designed by engineers, community engagement to enhance social outcomes and
and organisational specialists, to meet the massive horizontal strengthen community resilience.
infrastructure challenges created by a series of devastating n Creating a system that channels ‘the big egos’ in a way that
earthquakes that struck Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010 drives effectiveness in the post-disaster context.
and 2011. n Making decisions in times of uncertainty.
n Communicating effectively in the post-disaster context
The model intentionally builds collaboration across multiple
n Maintaining ‘the noble purpose’ that forms the essence of
parties drawn together by an unwavering commitment to
what you do over time and how you do it
shared vision, goals and objectives. It is underpinned by
established commercial principles that are robust and flexible To conclude, this paper will explore the prearrangements,
and empowered through: broad sets of relationships, community skills and relationships that engineers need to build
engagement, leadership training and a wellbeing plan to support prior to a disaster that will enhance their leadership
workforce resilience. It provides clarity, certainty and a supportive post-disaster. This paper builds on recovery literature
workplace for the hundreds of team members that were ‘pulled and theory and seeks to contribute to global thought
together’ from multiple highly competitive parent organisations on collaborative leadership and action in disaster
to create an ‘instant’ organisation. management.

SCIRT leadership have been continuously challenged and Keywords: leadership, collaboration, innovation, social outcomes,
surprised by the ability of engineers to work with others to community engagement, resilience, engineering,
create innovative solutions to engineering, social, economic post-disaster recovery
and public health dilemmas faced in the midst and shadow
of disaster. It is clear that the collective power of individuals
is exponentially increased through the intentional generation
of collaboration and leadership. Innovative construction
methodologies, community engagement and traffic planning
have been designed in consultation with communities to support
broader social outcomes.

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