by Vance Tan | Aug 27, 2014 | Economic impacts
Abstract Article in Spanish The article provides a summary of the main new thinking and conclusions reached at the conference about the future of national infrastructure systems and economic prosperity, held in Cambridge, UK on 27–28 March 2014. The following topics...
by Vance Tan | Aug 20, 2014 | Energy
Abstract Electrifying the energy system and powering it by low carbon electricity is one of the key decarbonisation pathways of the energy system. This study examines annual electricity and gas consumption in a high electrification scenario in Great Britain (GB) and...
by Vance Tan | Aug 11, 2014 | Water supply
Abstract In 2002, when colleagues at HR Wallingford, Halcrow and my team (then at the University of Bristol) undertook the first National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA) for the Environment Agency (EA), it was a breathtaking exercise. The methodology was hot off the...
by Vance Tan | Aug 5, 2014 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract National infrastructure systems (energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste) provide essential services to society. Although for the most part these systems developed in a piecemeal way, they are now an integrated and highly interdependent...
by Vance Tan | Aug 1, 2014 | Geohazards
Abstract This paper undertakes a critical review of the literature concerning mechanisms and impacts of soil-related geohazards to UK infrastructure. The country is predicted to have drier, hotter summers and wetter, warmer winters that in turn will increase the...
