Briar Goldwyn

Briar's doctoral research in Construction Engineering & Management (CEM) focused on understanding the housing safety perceptions of those involved with Puerto Rico's informal construction sector and how these housing safety perceptions do and do not align with structural performance assessments of informally constructed housing in hurricanes and earthquakes in Puerto Rico. This project aimed to determine local preference and understanding of building components that are safe; assess the structural performance of shelters in multi-hazard environments; and create a communication design to assist communities and organizations in enhancing their resiliency to natural hazards.

Education: 

• PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022
• MS in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2021
• BS in Civil Engineering, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, 2018

Publications: 

Goldwyn, B., González Vega, Y., Javernick-Will, A., and Liel, A.B. (2022). "Identifying misalignments between the informal construction sector's perceptions and engineering assessments of housing safety in future disasters for capacity development." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 77: 103105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103105 

Goldwyn, B., Javernick-Will, A., and Liel, A.B. (2022). "Multi-hazard housing safety perceptions of those involved with housing construction in Puerto Rico." Sustainability, 14(7): 3802.  https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073802

Lochhead, M., Goldwyn, B., Venable, C., Javernick-Will, A. and Liel, A.B. (2022). "Assessment of hurricane wind performance and potential design modifications for informally-constructed housing in Puerto Rico." Natural Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05222-0

Goldwyn, B., Javernick-Will, A., and Liel, A.B. (2021). "The dilemma of the tropics: Changes to housing safety perceptions, preferences and priorities in multi-hazard environments." Natural Hazards Review. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000457

Opdyke, A., Goldwyn, B., and Javernick-Will, A. (2020). “Defining a humanitarian shelter and settlements research agenda.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101950

Goldwyn, B., Javernick-Will, A., Liel, A.B., and Koschmann, M. (2022). "Designing a Communication Practice to Build Community Capacity for Safer Housing." 2022 Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, Arlington, VA.

Goldwyn, B., Javernick-Will, A., and Liel, A.B. (2020). "Changing perceptions of safe housing after a less familiar disaster." Engineering Projects and Organizations Conference, Virtual. 

Goldwyn, B., Venable, C., Javernick-Will, A., and Liel, A.B. (2020). "The influence of reconstruction modality, social capital, and community satisfaction on willingness to participate in resilience-building activities." 2020 Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, Phoenix, AZ.

Goldwyn, B., Opdyke, A., Javernick-Will, A., and Liel, A.B. (2019). “Humanitarian shelter and settlements research priorities.” 2019 Engineering Project Organizations Conference, Vail, CO.