Infrastructure networks underpin our daily lives, providing critical global communication and supply links, enabling us to travel from place to place, and supporting our demand for energy supplies.

Unfortunately, many examples exist of infrastructure-related industries having to rapidly respond to a previously unanticipated, poorly understood, or unknown hazard. This NERC-funded knowledge project aims to better understand a wide range of environmental risks that can negatively affect strategically important and valuable infrastructure, in particular to understand:

  1. Are there environmental risks that have been missed or overlooked by infrastructure industries?
  2. How can we better predict low probability events or combinations of hazards that may aggravate impacts?
  3. Are there new or emerging technologies that can improve the assessment of risk?
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Website: https://projects.noc.ac.uk/risk2infrastructure

PI: Dr Mike Clare
Email: m.clare atnoc.ac.uk

Dates
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Funding

NERC – Innovation Funding, NERC – Fellowship

Aim

This project aims to tackle four main questions:

  1. Which hazards have been missed by industry?
  2. How can we better predict ‘unprecedented’ and extreme events?
  3. How resilient is infrastructure to successions or combinations of hazards?
  4. What step-changes can we make with new technology and new approaches to real-time monitoring of active hazards?