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## [What Will You Do When Your Mission-Critical Facility Goes Down?](https://www.ccaco.com/blog/what-will-you-do-when-your-mission-critical-facility-goes-down)

 [fa icon="calendar'] Apr 28, 2015 10:58:19 AM / by [Robert Pfeifer, AIA](https://www.ccaco.com/blog/author/robert-pfeifer-aia)

### **Risk assessment protects your operations when mission-critical buildings go offline. **

Mission-critical facilities are the buildings that contain activities, devices, services or systems that if disrupted would have a devastating impact on a business, a community or on national security. Major data centers, Chicago’s O’Hare airport, Department of Defense facilities, your local fire department, or the buildings where Federal Exchange servers reside – all of these are examples of mission-critical architecture.

But of course, mission-critical facilities do fail. From natural disasters to terrorism to an explosion at an electrical substation, there are many threats that can cause a mission-critical building to go down. And while it is theoretically possible to protect a facility 100% against all threats, it is simply too costly for most organizations to provide that level of protection.

That is where risk assessment for mission-critical facilities comes into play. By performing a comprehensive assessment of the risks to your mission-critical building – and the costs of losing it temporarily – you can better prepare for the possibility of failure and protect your organization in the event a disaster occurs.

There are five steps involved in risk assessment of mission-critical architecture:

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