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Our new paper published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Title: Sustainability and climate resilience metrics and trade-offs in transport infrastructure asset recovery

Authors: Dr Stergios Aristoteles Mitoulis, Dr Dan Bompa, Dr Sotirios Argyroudis, Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103800

In this paper we delve with critical aspects of sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, climate resilience and costs, including an application for a bridge, where normalised metrics are integrated into one unique index, considering climate projections and sustainable solutions for recovery after floods.

The paper presents and applies a framework for quantifying the trade-offs between #sustainability and #resilience in the recovery of bridges after floods.

a 4-minute lightning presentation on “Climate adaptation for resilient critical infrastructure in low medium income countries facilitated by space technology” is available here:

This paper will be presented at GLOC-2023 Global Space Conference on climate change, 23-25 May, Oslo, Norway

Stergios Mitoulis of infrastructuResilience was interviewed by the Greek national TV ERT anchor Stavroula Christofilea about the Polyfytos Bridge. The bridge is the main pilot of our two recent research projects ReCharged and RISKADAPT funded by HORIZON EUROPE-total value 4.2m Euros. These two projects are examining more resilient, sustainable, and cost-effective interventions for this landmark bridge. In this framework, we are also applying a participatory decision-making approach to optimise the reconstruction of the second longest bridge of Greece in collaboration with the local authorities.

The interview video is available here

Themed Issue: Integral Bridges
ICE Bridge Engineering of the Institution of Civil Engineers InstitutionofCivilEngineers

Champions:
Jessica Sandberg, Senior Engineer, Atkins Global, Epsom, UK;
Andrea Caristo, Associate Director, AECOM, London, UK
and Stergios Mitoulis, UK

Further information about the submission of journal papers is here: https://lnkd.in/eFfKCw75

Call for papers:

Abstract submission date: 30 April 2023
Full manuscript submission date: 31 October 2023
Weblink for abstract submissions: https://lnkd.in/e94tid4i

Title: Structural Performance monitoring and evaluation of scoured bridges under dynamic actions

Our ERIES (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-07) project is funded. The project will test for the first time in the international literature large scale specimens of bridge foundations under multihazard scenarios, as we have noticed that many bridges are scoured due to floods exacerbated by climate change and then they are subjected to earthquakes.

The project coordinated by Politecnico di Milanoinvolves several academic and industrial partners: University of StrathclydePolitecnico di Torino, Brunel University London, Università Politecnica delle Marche, University of Birmingham , Democritus University of Thrace – (D.U.Th.), Université Gustave Eiffel, Università di CamerinoEgnatia Odos S.A., SMARTEC SA, TAILOR ENGINEERING.

We will have access to the SoFSI shaking table at the University of Bristol to study vibration based approaches to monitor scoured bridges and to evaluate their performance under dynamic actions.

A new video is out explaining why we urgently need to reconstruct structures and facilities in earthquake-prone areas in Nepal and the need for fundraising for new small-scale buildings and facilities.

www.invovlenepal.org

Our Horizon-MSCA-2021-SE ReCharged project just started and members of the infrastructuResilience are the coordinators. The background is real- its Parthenon the most resilient building in the world!

ReCharged – Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies

In our new article published in Sustainable Cities and Society we present a new framework for the resilience informed prioritisation of critical infrastructure recovery in wartorn countries. We discuss the challenges to existing resilience frameworks and the value of standoff and ground-validated data in peacebuilding. The framework is applied for the case of damaged bridges in west Kyiv in Ukraine, showing how resilience analytics and intelligence from crowdsourcing during a conflict can optimise decision-making and resources allocation.

The article “Conflict-resilience framework for critical infrastructure peacebuilding” is open access: https://lnkd.in/eqHmM7WW

Authors: Dr Stergios Aristoteles Mitoulis, Dr Sotirios Argyroudis, Dr Mathaios Panteli, Dr Clemente Fuggini, Dr Sotiris Valkaniotis, Dr William Hynes, Dr Igor Linkov

More info about our work for Ukraine can be found on our research initiative: www.bridgeUkraine.org -for a resilient and sustainable Ukraine