Our BBC interviews on climate resilience of critical infrastructure and sustainable development BBC interviewed us today twice, one on the BBCNews and one on the BBC World News, see one of the videos here. The climate crisis and its impact on critical infrastructure were at …
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Workshop will be delivered to Ukrainian Engineers on bridge design
We will deliver a very special Workshop to Ukrainian Engineers on the: “Design of prestressed bridges to Eurocodes – Resilient ways to build back better” This is an initiative of the www.bridgeUkraine.org in collaboration with the Ukrainian State Road Research Institute (see post in Ukrainian …
€2.5million of funding secured from Horizon Europe HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-02
Our project was successful, a multidisciplinary and multipartner project with 18 partners. Title: RISKADAPT- Asset-level modelling of risks in the face of climate-induced extreme events and adaptation RISKADAPT will provide, in close cooperation with the end-users & stakeholders, a novel, integrated, modular, interoperable, public and …
The Thorpe Medal was awarded for our research paper
The infrastructuResilience was awarded the 2022 European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3) Thorpe Medal, for our paper: Argyroudis, S.A., Mitoulis, S.A., Chatzi, E., Baker, J.W., Brilakis, I., Gkoumas, K., Vousdoukas, M., Hynes, W., Carluccio, S., Keou, O., Frangopol, M.D. and Linkov, I. (2022) “Digital …
Research grant – 1.6m Euros from HORIZON to consolidate resilience and sustainability in our infrastructure
ReCharged – Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies. Funder: HORIZON-MSCA-SE-2021 New funding received from Horizon Europe:Our €1.6m project was successful with a 97%, see details below. Facts:12 partners, 35 colleagues from 10 countries led mainly by women …
We won an MSCA-PF-2021 Fellowship
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 …
“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 …