by Vance Tan | Feb 13, 2017 | Network risk analysis
Dr Raghav Pant, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher for the ITRC, won the prestigious Lloyd’s Science of Risk Prize 2016 in Systems Modelling. His research paper explored how infrastructure systems modelling can help businesses improve their infrastructure risk management,...
by Vance Tan | Feb 1, 2017 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract Matthew Ives and Scott Thacker from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute explain how civil engineers can help to fulfil the UK’s commitment to the recent Paris climate agreement through strategic infrastructure intervention and new...
by Vance Tan | Jan 27, 2017 | Network risk analysis
Abstract Critical national infrastructures, including energy, transport, digital communications, and water, are prone to flood damage. Their geographical extent is a determinant of, and is determined by, patterns of human development, which is often concentrated in...
by Vance Tan | Jan 17, 2017 | Energy, Infrastructure systems
Abstract Extreme space weather due to coronal mass ejections has the potential to cause considerable disruption to the global economy by damaging the transformers required to operate electricity transmission infrastructure. However, expert opinion is split between the...
by Vance Tan | Jan 11, 2017 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract There have been many calls for a more strategic, long-term approach to national infrastructure in the UK and elsewhere around the world. While appealing in principle, developing a national infrastructure strategy in practice poses major challenges of...
