Reducing Risk to Utility and Transportation Systems
from Hazards

The American Lifelines Alliance (ALA) is a public-private partnership project funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and managed by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), with the goal of reducing risks to lifelines from hazards.

Lifelines are those essential utility and transportation systems that serve communities across all jurisdictions and locales. ALA is developing guidelines to improve the performance of these systems in the event of natural hazards (e.g. earthquakes, floods, windstorms, etc.) and man-made threats (e.g. biological, chemical, radiological, blast, and cyber).

Read the newest report:

American Lifelines Alliance Post-Earthquake Information Systems (PIMS)Scoping Study

PIMS Study Appedices

ALA welcomes comments and feedback on the report by all lifeline stakeholders. Please send any remarks to Mrs. Claret Heider at cheider@nibs.org.

Other reports:

American Lifelines Alliance Workshop on Unified Data Collection &
Appendices

ALA welcomes comments and feedback on the report by all lifeline stakeholders. Please send any remarks to Mrs. Claret Heider at cheider@nibs.org.

Protecting Our Critical Infrastructure:
Findings and Recommendations from the American Lifelines Alliance Roundtable.

ALA welcomes comments and feedback on the report. Please send any remarks to Mrs. Claret Heider at cheider@nibs.org.