Queensland University of Technology

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Disaster - How Do You Recover?

Lessons and insights for businessrecovery

HOSA 2011 - Auckland

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Chair: Bruce McCallum (QUT)

Maureen Bowen (University of Queensland)

TBA (Canterbury)

Richard Hall (AUT)

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Disaster and crisis

• A disaster is an event that results in great damage, difficulty, or death

• A crisis is a situation that has reached an extremely difficult or dangerous point

• Failure to handle a disaster properly can lead to a crisis

• Emergency management principles– prevention; preparation; response; recovery

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Session outline

The events and context at each institution Individual presentations

Panel discussion

Questions from the floor

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QUT

Flood

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QUT –Tue & Wed 11-12 January

• Brisbane facing a flood like the 1974 event• 7.30am Tuesday low-lying car parks on Gardens Point

campus (GP) closed• 9.00am Tuesday severe rain events closed Caboolture

community campus (unexpected)• 1:00am Wednesday eight GP campus buildings had

been formally evacuated and placed in a full flood shutdown mode including main QUT data centre

• 11.00am Wednesday all campuses essentially closed for remainder of the week

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QUT campus locations

Kelvin Grove and Gardens Point Campus

Caboolture Campus

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GP (City Campus) inundated buildings

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Stairs between Z&S Blocks-freeway in background-pre flood

Stairs between Z&S Blocks-freeway in background –during flood

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QUT Printery & Suncorp Stadium

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QUT’s Milton Printery had water approximately 2 metres above floor level

Graphic evidence of the total destruction- sometimes sandbagging isn’t enough.

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RESUMPTION AND RECOVERY

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Z Block, Level 1 car park entrance- freeway on right

GP ‘S’ Block Level 1- Lift Lobby

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Peak flood level-GP ‘S’ Block level 1 entry doors which open onto Gardens Point Road (next slide), adjacent to the freeway

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GP ‘S’ Block level 1 car park- FM staff set up temporary lighting for the clean up team

GP ‘S’ Block level 1- Fire services equipment totally destroyed by water ingress

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