GDRC to be partner of Annual Building Resilience Conference
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:51:00 GMT
The 5th Annual Building Resilience Conference will be held in Newcastle, Australia hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. This is the fifth in the Building Resilience conference series and follows on from previous successful events held in 2008, 2011, 2013 and in 2014. GDRC at School, of Art, Design and Architecture will be a key partner of this event and will be collaborating closely with the hosts in making this event a success.
Call for abstracts is now open and academics and practitioners who are interested to submit an abstract can now do so as the conference promises to be exciting and extremely informative building on the four previous conferences in the series.
Important dates
- 1st December 2014: Abstract submission deadline. Please register for an author account and submit to abstract and paper/s.
- March 2015: Registration open
- 31st March 2015: Full paper submission deadline
- 15th May 2015: Camera ready paper submission deadline
- 15th-17th July 2015: International Conference on Building Resilience.
Conference Themes include:
Resilience, Built Environment, Communication, Disaster risk, Slow-onset disaster, Healthcare facilities, infrastructure and system resilience planning, Social Resilience, Governance, Education

The conference website is at the following link:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/about-uon/governance-and-leadership/faculties-and-schools/faculty-of-engineering-and-built-environment/school-of-architecture-and-the-built-environment/building-resilience-2015/home
Further details can be obtained from Dr. Jamie MacKee, Chair, 5th Building Resilience Conference 2015, Assistant Dean (International): Jamie.MacKee@newcastle.edu.au
