Disaster and resilience services

Disaster and resilience services

Supporting communities and infrastructure owners to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

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Building resilience before, during and after disasters

Building resilience before, during and after disasters

pitt&sherry helps infrastructure owners, including governments, utilities, and private industry, strengthen resilience across the asset lifecycle.

Our multidisciplinary team combines geotechnical, civil, structural, environmental, and sustainability knowledge to assess risks, develop practical resilience strategies and provide rapid engineering support during emergency events.

We help clients make informed decisions by assessing risks, identifying mitigation options and supporting long-term asset performance and management planning.

Our services

Integrated resilience and disaster services

Supporting clients with risk assessment, resilience planning, emergency response support and long-term recovery advice.

Asset resilience

Risk-based advice to help asset owners understand vulnerabilities and support informed infrastructure investment and management decisions.

Climate risk assessments

Hazard mapping, scenario analysis and climate risk assessments for assets, infrastructure and communities.

Disaster response

Rapid site inspections, engineering assessments, emergency advice and recovery support following floods, landslides, storms and other natural disasters.

Integrated resilience and disaster services

Supporting clients with risk assessment, resilience planning, emergency response support and long-term recovery advice.

Monitoring solutions

Monitoring, surveying and digital technologies that help clients better understand asset performance and evolving hazards.

Recovery planning

Practical recovery strategies designed to support service restoration, inform future risk reduction and strengthen resilience planning.

Resilience planning and assessments

Climate risk, vulnerability and criticality assessments that support long-term resilience planning and investment decisions.

Our approach

Helping clients understand and manage risk

Understanding risk

Understanding risk

We apply a risk-based approach to identify hazards, evaluate likelihood and consequence, and clearly communicate risks and mitigation options to our clients.
Our industry credentials

Recognised assessment methodologies

Our team members are accredited in a number of recognised assessment methodologies, including TfNSW and the TMR Guide to Slope Risk Analysis. We’re currently involved in ongoing work to update the AGS landslide risk management framework, intended for use across Australia and New Zealand.

Risk and resilience frameworks

Risk and resilience frameworks

In addition to the TfNSW, TMR and the AGS landslide risk assessment frameworks, we have experience in working within bespoke client risk frameworks and developing fit-for-purpose assessment frameworks where required.

Technology and capability

Technology and capability

Our teams use GIS platforms, LiDAR surveying, digital asset information capture tools, monitoring technologies and field investigation capabilities to support rapid assessments, resilience planning and ongoing asset management.

Our projects

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Transport
St Marys and Elephant Pass Slope Stabilisation
St Marys and Elephant Pass Slope Stabilisation
Tasmania • February 2023
Paradise Gorge
Paradise Gorge
Tasmania • June 2021
Our team

Get in touch with our disaster and resilience team

Andrew Tyson
Principal Engineering Geologist

Sven Rand
Principal Geoscientist

FAQs

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