A shared framework for understanding, managing and assuring resilience across the built environment and the services it supports.
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A governed, continuously contextualised capability.
TAR connects the state of physical and digital assets across the built environment, infrastructure and connected systems with operating conditions, dependencies, risks and intended functions. It enables organisations to anticipate and withstand impairment, adapt, recover and learn — while maintaining safe, secure, compliant, sustainable and economically viable performance across the asset lifecycle.
The asset-supported function is the starting point: what must continue, what it depends on and what evidence demonstrates resilience.
The framework sets out the shared approach. A TAR Platform supports its application by connecting information, accountable decisions and evidence of results.
Start with the service to maintain. Its purpose, dependencies and consequences determine how TAR applies in each environment.
Homes, apartment buildings and residential estates.
Offices, retail, hospitality and mixed-use premises.
Manufacturing, processing and industrial production facilities.
Energy, water, wastewater and communications networks.
Roads, rail, bridges, ports, airports and associated fleets.
Enterprise, colocation and distributed computing facilities.
Schools, colleges, universities and research campuses.
Hospitals, clinics, community facilities and care settings.
These environments can overlap within one organisation or estate. A university may include homes, laboratories and a data centre. A hospital data centre has its own technical dependencies, with priorities shaped by the clinical services it supports. Apply the relevant guidance to each function and connect the shared dependencies.
The capabilities link asset context, dependencies, decisions and evidence. They operate together across the asset lifecycle.
Know the asset and the conditions around it.
Connect the physical and digital picture.
Understand what relies on what.
Consider consequences together.
Explore change before it happens.
Turn understanding into accountable action.
Check the result. Improve the next decision.
Build trust into the way information is used.
The capability domains describe what an organisation needs to be able to do. Outcome domains help assess what those capabilities achieve.
Explore the capability frameworkA Total Asset Resilience Platform supports the people and processes responsible for resilience through connected software capabilities.
A TAR Platform works alongside existing asset management, operational and assurance systems. It helps responsible teams understand the effect of change, coordinate decisions and verify the result across the asset lifecycle.
Understand the TAR PlatformSix outcome domains connect service performance, protection and long-term value. Assess them together in the context of the decision.
Maintain the functions and service levels that assets are intended to support.
Explore the outcome02Protect people, communities and the integrity of assets and their operating environment.
Explore the outcome03Protect connected assets, information and the decisions that depend on them.
Explore the outcome04Sustain performance as climate, environmental and resource conditions change.
Explore the outcome05Connect obligations and responsibilities with evidence of actual performance.
Explore the outcome06Support decisions that remain useful as assets, services and requirements evolve.
Explore the outcomeThe definition, its scope and intended application.
Read resourceHow the core capabilities work together to support resilience.
Read resourceDetailed resources for authorised TAR contributors and key stakeholders across industry and academia.
Access framework resourcesThe framework needs to reflect how assets and services operate in practice. Your experience can help clarify its scope, identify capability gaps and connect resilience outcomes with decisions across industry.
The public survey explores asset environments, disruption, current systems, investment priorities and terminology. Contributions from asset owners and operators, industry specialists, researchers and other stakeholders will inform the development of TAR.
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TAR and its framework are being developed through consultation. Relevant perspectives include asset ownership and operation, engineering, digital systems, risk, assurance and academic research.
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