Wellington Resilience Programme Business Case (PBC)
(Client: Greater Wellington Regional Council for Wellington Lifelines Group)
This project was initiated by the Wellington Lifelines Group to help enable smart investment decisions for public value across a raft of lifeline organisations and wider sectors.
The MERIT tool, together with the Riskscape damage and loss modelling tool, was used to evaluate the wider economic benefits different infrastructure investment options would have.

Read more about this project
- Wellington Lifelines have published a report with the key findings from this project, Protecting Wellington's Economy Through Accelerated Infrastructure Investment Programme Business Case, October, 2019.
- A paper has been published in the Australian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies (AJDTS), From physical disruption to community impact: Modelling a Wellington Fault earthquake, outlining how strong stakeholder engagement and integrated modelling enabled the development of a comprehensive and robust narrative to support the modelling in this project.
- Wellington Lifelines Media Release on the publication of the report, December 2019
- Video interview with Richard Mowll from Wellington Lifelines Group