Duration: 01 May 2014 – 30 April 2017
Staff Involved: Dr M McCord; Prof ME Haran; Dr PT Davis; Prof NJ Hewitt; Prof WS McGreal; Dr WJ Rodgers; Dr J Liu; Dr R Bond; Prof Hui Wang; Dr I Haran
Resilience of Critical Infrastructure (CI) to Extreme Weather Events (EWE) is one of the most demanding challenges for both government and society. Extreme Weather (EW) is a phenomenon that causes severe threats to the well-functioning of CI. The increased frequency and intensity of EWEs can cause a range of complex challenges to the operational resilience of CI. The economic and societal relevance of the dependability and resilience of CI is obvious, infrastructure malfunctioning and outages can have far reaching consequences and impacts on economy and society. The cost of developing and maintaining CI is high if it is expected to have a realistic functional and economic life (50+ years). Hence, future EWEs must be taken into account when considering protection measures, mitigation measures and adaption measures to reflect actual and predicted instances of CI failures. The INTACT project addresses these challenges and brings together innovative and cutting edge knowledge and experience culminating in the INTACT decision support system that facilitates cross-disciplinary and cross-border data sharing as well as providing for a forum for evidence based policy formulation.