CECREH Leadership Participates in NHERI SimCenter Researcher Engagement Meeting on R2D Capabilities

December 4, 2025

In December 2025, members of the Center of Excellence in Capacity-building for Resilient Housing (CECREH) participated in a Researcher Engagement Meeting hosted by the NHERI SimCenter. The session, titled “Enhanced Capabilities of R2D for Regional Disaster Risk Analysis,” brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent advancements in the Regional Resilience Determination (R2D) framework and its applications for large-scale disaster risk and recovery analysis.

CECREH was represented on the panel by Dr. Ali Nejat (Texas Tech University), Director of CECREH, along with Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Sara Hamideh (Stony Brook University) and Dr. Elaina Sutley (University of Kansas). The panelists contributed to discussions on how R2D can support regional assessments of housing damage, recovery trajectories, and community resilience under future hazard scenarios.

   

The discussion highlighted the importance of integrating engineering models with social and policy considerations to better capture real-world recovery processes. These conversations closely align with CECREH’s mission to advance data-driven, equitable approaches to post-disaster housing recovery and to strengthen the analytical tools used by decision-makers at local, state, and federal levels.

The full recording of the session is available on YouTube: Enhanced Capabilities of R2D for Regional Disaster Risk Analysis .

CECREH remains actively engaged with national research infrastructure initiatives such as NHERI SimCenter to ensure that emerging tools and methods support more resilient and equitable housing recovery outcomes.