Emerging and disruptive digital technologies have the potential to enhance climate resilience of critical infrastructure, by providing rapid and accurate assessment of asset condition and support decision-making and adaptation. In this pursuit, it is imperative to adopt multidisciplinary roadmaps and deploy computational, communication and other digital technologies, tools and monitoring systems. Nevertheless, the potential of these emerging technologies remains largely unexploited, as there is a lack of consensus, integrated approaches and legislation in support of their use. In this perspective paper, we discuss the main challenges and enablers of climate-resilient infrastructure and we identify how available roadmaps, tools and emerging digital technologies, e.g. Internet of Things, digital twins, point clouds, Artificial Intelligence, Building Information Modelling, can be placed at the service of a safer world. We show how digital technologies will lead to infrastructure of enhanced resilience, by delivering efficient and reliable decision-making, in a proactive and/or reactive manner, prior, during and after hazard occurrences. In this respect, we discuss how emerging technologies significantly reduce the uncertainties in all phases of infrastructure resilience evaluations. Thus, building climate-resilient infrastructure, aided by digital technologies, will underpin critical activities globally, contribute to Net Zero target and hence safeguard our societies and economies.
ARGYROUDIS Sotiris;
MITOULIS Stergios Aristoteles;
CHATZI Eleni;
BAKER Jack W;
BRILAKIS Ioannis;
GKOUMAS Konstantinos;
VOUSDOUKAS Michail;
HYNES William;
CARLUCCIO Savina;
KEOU Oceane;
FRANGOPOL Dan;
LINKOV Igor;
2022-01-05
ELSEVIER
JRC121831
2212-0963 (online),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096321001169,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC121831,
10.1016/j.crm.2021.100387 (online),
