Lifelines reports and resources
Reports and resources which may be of use to lifeline utilities, lifeline groups, or CDEM officers working with lifelines utilities
New Zealand Critical Lifelines Infrastructure National Vulnerability Assessment
The New Zealand Lifelines Council has released the 2020 Edition of the New Zealand Critical Lifelines Infrastructure National Vulnerability Assessment. The assessment aims to provide government, industry and communities with a better understanding of:
- What is nationally significant infrastructure; and
- Infrastructure vulnerability and its resilience to hazards.
This assessment is being progressively updated as knowledge improves, and new information becomes available. First produced in 2017, this 2020 edition strengthens previous reports with:
- New information on nationally significant critical infrastructure gathered through national lifeline utilities.
- New information from a number of major studies relating to significant New Zealand hazards.
- A new section on climate change risk and additional material on fire and pandemic hazards.
- An overview of major resilience investment programmes for each sector.
- A stronger community and critical customer perspective to recommend national investment in regional resilience business cases that recognise infrastructure interdependencies and prioritise across all infrastructure.
Full report
Summary report
How to benefit from Lifelines Projects
Report by the Auckland Engineering Lifelines Group providing a framework by which utilities can apply lifelines projects results. To assist your utility in benefiting from lifelines projects.
How to benefit from Lifelines Projects report (.pdf 709kb)
Value of Lifeline Seismic Risk Mitigation in Christchurch (June 2012)
This report is about the substantial range of risk reduction and readiness steps taken by lifeline utilities in Christchurch over recent years to reduce the impact of earthquakes. The work leading to the report of the Christchurch Engineering Lifelines Group in the 1990s, Risks and Realities, is the foundation for many of the measures adopted. The mitigation work also helped with the wider emergency response and recovery. The report shows that the costs of seismic risk mitigation in Christchurch will have been repaid many times over.
Value of Lifeline Seismic Risk Mitigation in Christchurch (June 2012) - full report (.pdf 392kb)
Value of Lifeline Seismic Risk Mitigation in Christchurch (June 2012) - summary version (.pdf 218kb)
Exercise Ruaumoko: Lifelines Sector Notes
This report was prepared by Tony Fenwick on behalf of the NZLC and the Auckland Engineering Lifelines Group to draw together the main lifeline-related experiences and learning points from Exercise Ruaumoko. The information in this report is intended to enhance approaches to risk reduction and readiness for volcanic and other regional and national scale events.
Exercise Ruaumoko: Lifeline Sector Notes (.pdf 700kb)
Report: review of international resources on engineering lifelines and critical infrastructure
This report is the first in a series that is designed to acquaint New Zealand National and Regional Engineering Lifeline Organisations with global developments in the fields of Engineering Lifelines, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Infrastructure Resilience. It is intended that this report be updated periodically.
Download Report No. 2 August 2010 (.doc 854kb)
Compiled by - Roger Crimp, for National Engineering Lifelines Committee New Zealand
Climate Change
The Ministry for the Environment has worked with Lifeline Groups to analyse potential effects of climate change on lifeline utilities and other infrastructure. http://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/
Fast Moving Consumer Goods
The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector is vitally important for the economy, health and well being of the nation. It is because of this that the National Emergency Management Agency approaches the FMCG sector as a “lifeline” even though it is not legislated as a lifeline utility.
The support that CDEM Groups are expected to provide to the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector is comparable with the support that Groups are expected to provide to Lifeline Utilities within their region, regardless of the hazard.
The Grocery Industries Pandemic Planning Seminar 2009 gives an indication of the nature and extent of CDEM planning undertaken by the FMCG sector.