bridgeAdapt: Sustainable adaptation of bridges deteriorated to climate and human-induced damage
Funding: British Academy Fellowship & University of Birmingham
Total funding: £250k
CARA Fellow: Nadiia Kopiika
Duration: 2023-2025
The main motivation of bridgeAdapt is the extensive destruction of bridges in Ukraine. This project for the first time in the international literature will optimise resilience and sustainability metrics for restoring portfolios of bridges damaged to war and/or deteriorated due to inherent mechanisms (such as corrosions, fatigue) in an optimised manner by leveraging digital data at different levels of knowledge from disparate sources. In doing so, scenarios of proactive adaptation and reactive restoration of bridges will be analysed to support financing for more sustainable and more resilience road and railway networks in Ukraine.
