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Special Session on “Loss and Resilience Assessment Tools for Infrastructure Exposed to Natural Hazards” being Organized by the Ergo Consortium at the ICONHIC 2019 Conference

Urban areas and critical infrastructure are exposed to natural and manmade hazards, which are becoming more frequent and have severe consequences on world economies and societies. Therefore, cities and infrastructure resilience to extreme events and diverse hazards such as tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, landslides, floods, climate change, man-made and technological risks, is of paramount importance for…
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Ergo Consortium Hosts Special Session at the 16ECEE Conference

Members of the Ergo Consortium organized a special session as part of the 16ECEE conference entitled “Software for Loss Estimation: Developments and Applications.” This special session dealt with the development and application of software for the risk analysis of buildings, bridges, lifelines, critical infrastructure, etc., which are exposed to seismic and other natural hazards, and…
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Annual Meeting of the Ergo Consortium

The ERGO Multi-Hazard Assessment, Response and Planning consortium members held a workshop prior to the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), in Thessaloniki, Greece, on June 17, 2018. During this meeting the members developed a long term strategy to assure the sustainability of the Ergo Consortium and present updates on how the ERGO system…
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ERGO is the new name for mHARP

As of January 1, 2014, ERGO is the new name for the Multi-Hazard Assessment, Response, and Planning software previously known as mHARP and MAEviz. ERGO, a Latin word meaning “therefore” or “hence,” embodies what the software does at its most basic level – it helps users understand the consequences of an event or action –…
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