We won a Marie-Sklowdowska Curie research project (MSCA-PF-21) which will aim to facilitate infrastructure digitalisation and data driven resilience modelling: title: DiRect – DIgitally-enhanced REsilience of Critical Transport infrastructure A few words for this project: DiRect will establish a streamlined, openly available, web-based toolkit for …
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“Its not in our backyard” problems dramatically disproved by climate change
Medicane Ianos – the Mediterranean Hurricane said to be formed due to climate change – has very recently caused extensive damage and devastation in Greece. To date, we had very little information regarding the intensity of this unprecedented natural disaster that was manifested with sequential …
New paper on climate resilience of critical infrastructure incentivised by digital technologies and data
In our agenda-setting paper that is just published in the journal of Climate Risk Management we argue that: “Digital technologies can enhance climate resilience of critical infrastructure” to boost economic growth and societal well-being for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs2030). Deployment of …
Challenges and future directions in improving bridge flood resilience
The conversation on our paper titled: Challenges and future directions in improving bridge flood resilience (includes aspects of climate adaptation climate change) is now open from the EGU and Copernicus Journal: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, (NHESS) Co-authors: Tubaldi E, Patelli E, White C, …
Data-driven decision making with coupled engineering, satellite imagery and digital twining
To combat adverse and changing environments and deliver robust and well-informed resilience frameworks, aware of the impacts of climate change on our critical infrastructure we need to embrace digital data, forensics and evidence from engineering inspections and openly available data and evidence from satellite imagery …
Mini-Symposium has been announced in the IABMAS 2022, Barcelona conference
Delivering bridges resilient to multiple natural hazards and climate change is fundamental to continued economic prosperity and social coherence. Emerging and disruptive digital technologies have the potential to enhance the climate resilience of critical infrastructure such as bridges. Nevertheless, the potential of these technologies remains …
Our new paper titled “Innovations in earthquake risk reduction for resilience: recent advances and challenges
Our paper is now published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) highlights the importance of scientific research, supporting the ‘availability and application of science and technology to decision making’ in disaster risk reduction (DRR). …
New paper “Restoration models of flood resilient bridges: survey data”
The data of our elicitation survey on restoration of flood damaged bridges is now available on-line in Data in Brief, please see here The survey includes the duration and sequence of restoration tasks, idle times, cost, and traffic/functionality loss for specified damage levels of given …
New paper on “Restoration models for quantifying flood resilience of bridges”
In order to assess and quantify the resilience of flood-critical bridges and subsequently deploy bridge resilience models aiming at building resilience into transport networks, it is essential to use reliable fragility, capacity restoration and traffic reinstatement metrics and models. In our recent paper “Restoration models for quantifying flood …
Participation to IABMAS2020
Our group has participated in the IABMAS2020 conference, held online on April 11-18, 2021. We have successfully organised a special session on “Monitoring strategies for enhancing transport infrastructure resilience” Please watch the video of a lecture that we delivered on “Data-driven resilience assessment for transport infrastructure …