Incorporating Socioeconomic Metrics in Civil Engineering Projects: The Resilience Perspective

This paper explores the role of socioeconomic metrics in design, planning and operations civil engineering projects within specific context resilience. The inclusion resilience analysis design is consistent with goals ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) related emerging standards duties engineers. focuses on practices planning, construction, operation that can deliver social value to communities offers a set for consistently measuring these benefits. Socioeconomic benchmark benefits including safety, equity, health well-being, prosperity, cohesion inclusivity, mobility accessibility during whole life-cycle project. A review presented expanded an emphasis need contextual narrative support their application. aim establish further use values at community level formulate them justify rationalize interventions strategies. reviewed concepts categorized project be used by range actors addition engineers, such as urban planners, policy makers, or regional developers, preferably collaborative manner across groups, particularly help prioritize investment resources funds achieve Three examples differing levels complexity are conceptually illustrate approaches outlined herein.