by Vance Tan | Jul 3, 2017 | Event, Influencing policy, Infrastructure systems
ITRC’s Dr Elco Koks contributed this short video lecture on the costs of extreme weather and risk reduction strategies. Dr. Koks uses examples of extreme weather events to demonstrate how to estimate their economic impacts and how to evaluate strategies and measures...
by Vance Tan | Mar 1, 2017 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract Since the appearance of railways and canals, industrial revolutions have been characterized by the transformation of physical infrastructure networks as much as by production methods. Now the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is shaking up the interdependent...
by Vance Tan | Feb 20, 2017 | Infrastructure systems
Abstract Future development in cities needs to manage increasing populations, climate-related risks,and sustainable development objectives such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Planners therefore face a challenge of multidimensional, spatial optimization in order...
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 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...
