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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, …

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 …

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 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). …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I’m speaking to help you Quantify the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Assets and Networks. Would you like to attend? 1 – 3 pm UK time, Thursday 10 June 2021 more information and registration here

If you love bridges and want to protect them against floods then delve into the details of our recent article. With this paper you can assess the potential losses and risk of a bridge that is exposed to flood and scour effects. Use the fragility …

Institution of Civil Engineers – Bridge Engineering Recent natural disasters revealed the vulnerabilities of bridges and critical infrastructure to diverse hazards (e.g. floods, blasts, earthquakes), which may exacerbate due to climate change, leading to significant economic losses and societal disruption.  This themed issue is focused …