Municipal Risk Assessment Tool

Canadian municipalities are struggling to deal with excess precipitation that’s overflowing our infrastructure and flooding roads, homes and businesses. Knowing what needs to be fixed, and how to allocate scarce resources, is a huge task.

To tackle this problem, IBC is developing a web-based tool that will help communities and insurers assess potential infrastructure failure.

The municipal risk assessment tool, the first of its kind in the world, provides a visual representation of municipal risk zones, helping decision-makers to pinpoint infrastructure weak spots and put improvement dollars where they are needed most.

The tool can predict and display with a high degree of accuracy the probability that infrastructure failure will occur − within a quarter of a city block. This level of precision is currently unheard of among other tools used to assess prospective risk.

IBC is now recruiting 20 Canadian municipalities to collect data and complete the development of the tool.

For more information, contact Robert Tremblay, Director of Research, rtremblay@ibc.ca.