by Vance Tan | Mar 1, 2014
Thermoelectric generation contributes to 80% of global electricity production. Cooling of thermoelectric plants is often achieved by water abstractions from the natural environment. In England and Wales, the electricity sector is responsible for approximately half of...
by Vance Tan | Jan 26, 2014
Britain’s infrastructure has come into existence over many decades. We owe a considerable debt to the legacy left by the Victorian builders of railways, reservoirs and sewers. These ageing systems face considerable challenges in the future to serve a globalised...
by Vance Tan | Jan 18, 2014
Infrastructure systems – including those that manage transportation, telecommunications, energy, water and waste management – have come into being in advanced economies in the centuries since industrialisation. Over time, infrastructure becomes locked in to the way we...
by Vance Tan | Jan 14, 2014
Our integrated system-of-systems model (NISMOD) can simulate the long term performance of infrastructure networks in Great Britain. This analysis capability has been used to compare alternative long term strategies for infrastructure provision. In total we have...
by Vance Tan | Oct 31, 2013
Modern infrastructures such as energy, transport or information and communication technologies are complex and highly interdependent systems. Modern society and economy place growing expectations and reliance on them. Failures in infrastructure systems can affect...
