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Loading...Organisations from all levels of the supply chain agree that the infrastructure sector’s current operating model is broken. The Institution of Civil Engineers has launched Project 13 in order to change this. The website includes tools, resources and case studies.
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Loading...We liked the CIRI webinar on ‘Dynamic resiliency modelling and planning for interdependent critical infrastructures’ which is relevant to our outcome statement on dynamic performance based design. The presentation can be downloaded here.
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Loading...As part of the Autumn 2018 Budget statement in the UK, the National Infrastructure Commission announced a study on the resilience of the UK’s infrastructure systems. The study will consider what action government should take to ensure that infrastructure can cope with future changes, disruptions, shocks and accidents.
Loading...New South Wales government’s publication of its Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy, encouraging leaders in business and government to support communities by improving critical infrastructure resilience. They say ‘A state-wide resilience strategy will help keep the lights on, help keep water running, and help people and goods flow through our transport and trade routes, even in emergencies.’
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Loading...To implement sustainable investment decisions it is essential that the world can deliver social and natural benefits alongside economic and financial value. This Arup paper challenges conventional thinking and shows that through a Total Value approach we can close the value gap and drive change at scale.
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Loading...In the October 2018 edition of ‘Voices on Infrastructure’ series, the Global Infrastructure Initiative by McKinsey and Company published their ‘Future-proofing infrastructure in a fast-changing world’ report, with insights from organisations and industry experts.
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Loading...The ability of global trade to feed the world is one of the great success stories of the past generation. Shippers and exporters have become better and better at getting affordable food from places of surplus to regions of scarcity. But the planet is at rising risk of choking on its good fortune.
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Loading...The American Society of Civil Engineers published a new manual of practice on ‘Climate Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive design and risk management’.
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Loading...The Institution of Civil Engineers has published a new e-book of the textbook ‘Critical Infrastructures Resilience: Policy Engineering and Principles’ authored by CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly, CEE PhD student Udit Bhatia, and Political Science Professor and Director of the Global Resilience Institute, Stephen E. Flynn.
Loading...This journal article talks about the strategies and conceptual development of some European Nordic Countries to resilience for critical infrastructure. Then it highlights how their approach has a better starting point that most of the EU.
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Loading...This course at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering aims to teach students to identify solutions for critical infrastructure resilience in the face of climate change, globalisation and urbanisation challenges.
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Loading...This paper includes the findings of MMI Thornton Tomasetti’s investigation into the measurement of resilience within infrastructure using systems thinking and focussed on value delivery.
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Loading...Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud computing business, is its fastest-growing and most profitable division, but it comes with a lot of upfront infrastructure costs and ongoing expenses, the biggest of which is electricity.
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Loading...The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers as the nation tests an “intelligent highway” that could speed the transformation of the global transportation industry.
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Loading...Meaningful policy measures that address rising CO2 from international aviation and shipping remain inadequate. This article in Climate Policy journal quantifies 2 ºC pathways for these sectors, highlighting the need for mitigation measures to be urgently accelerated.
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Loading...The City Finance Lab (CFL) is Europe’s first dedicated platform supporting the development of innovative financial solutions that increase investment in resilient, low-carbon and sustainable urban projects. It aims to unlock at least EUR 500 million in additional investment for climate action over the next 5 years.
Loading...Bringing together officials from 7 small- and mid-size cities and private sector leaders to explore how “big city” procurement tools can be adapted to work in smaller communities with the aim of jumpstarting progress towards upgrading legacy water infrastructure systems.
Loading...Great questions have a catalytic quality — they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. The MIT Leadership Center’s Hal Gregersen says brainstorming in “question bursts” is the best way for innovative leaders and problem solvers to find solutions.
Loading...What do we mean when we speak in terms of “resilience?” Why has “resilience” become the hot buzzword, and why is it useful for political leaders who want to avoid saying the words “climate change?” This paper is published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists journal.
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Loading...There is a lot of good advice out there on communicating research for policy. But what we often don’t talk about is the things that go against that advice, which….cough cough… if we’re honest, we all do. At least sometimes. For example…
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Loading...It’s not just NBN Co’s infrastructure that is being ravaged by cockatoos. The birds inflict damage on telecommunications infrastructure in what is a uniquely Australian problem costing the industry millions of dollars in damages every year.
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Loading...CliFi means “climate fiction” and refers to fictional books that bring climate change science to the reader. Cli-Fi can help us understand what future climate may be like or what current climate effects are. The authors get us to think about the ‘what if’s – and future Earths.
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Loading...This paper by RE.bound Program, and re:focus partners llc, offers a path forward for governments at all levels – cities, states, federal agencies, and international aid programs – to align public-sector disaster risk reduction measures with private insurance using Resilience Bonds.
Loading...Vanita Suneja of WaterAid reports on what is being done to prevent South Asia running out of underground water, and five key challenges to create a robust groundwater management regime.
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Loading...The aim of the Adaptation Support Tool is to assist users in developing climate change adaptation strategies and plans by providing guidance, links to relevant sources and dedicated tools. The European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency.
Loading...These guidelines establish how the City can increase its resiliency to
unavoidable climate change through design as an integral part of the project planning
process for agencies and their designers.
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Loading...Deep uncertainty acknowledges a dynamic system where inputs — such as rainfall or economic growth or regulations — are changing or unknown. Deep uncertainty methods are not yet widespread among water utilities, but the ideas are gaining ground. Scenario planning allows utilities to ask questions that, in the past, would have been viewed as unusual.
