STORMS: Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks

风暴：埋地基础设施抵御气象冲击的策略和工具

• 批准号: ST/Y004035/1
• 负责人: Andrew Hughes
• 金额: $ 5.83万
• 依托单位: British Geological Survey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FY004035%2F1
• 关键词: STORMS; Strategies; Tools; Resilience; Buried

Buried infrastructure systems are vulnerable to meteorological shocks or extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts due to extreme precipitation, as well as extreme temperatures. Such events can lead to soil movement, thermal contraction and expansion, and sinkholes, among other problems. Despite the urgency, our society is not well prepared for the impacts of these shocks on buried infrastructure. Our understanding of where the risk is and how much it is remains poor, because existing risk assessment tools do not comprehensively consider impacts from both flood water and subsurface moisture/temperature variations. The extent to which the UK's buried infrastructure can cope with a significant weather event, or 'shock', is unclear. Such understanding is crucial for developing effective resilience strategies.This project aims to develop a comprehensive weather-related risk assessment framework for buried infrastructure, which include cables and pipes vital to cities and urban lives. The framework will be applied to understand the potential impacts of weather events and climate change on these infrastructures. The project team will also co-develop adaptation measures with stakeholders to increase resilience to these extreme events. The aim will be accomplished through five interrelated work packages. This includes 1) creating a broad-scale modelling methodology for hydrological conditions; 2) identifying current and future hydrological and meteorological scenarios posing risks to buried infrastructure; 3) employing advanced hydrodynamic modelling and vulnerability analysis to understand how buried pipes and cables respond to varying conditions; 4) integrating the developed models and datasets for a comprehensive risk assessment, and 5) co-developing resilience and adaptation strategies with stakeholders.The project is expected to deliver significant societal and economic impacts. By enhancing decision-making capabilities among infrastructure operators and utility companies, the research can lead to fewer service disruptions, potential cost savings, and increased resilience of infrastructure systems in the face of meteorological shocks and climate change.The project leverages expertise across multiple institutions, including the University of Birmingham, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and British Geological Survey, to address a critical challenge - the resilience of buried infrastructure to meteorological shocks, demonstrating excellent value for money by capitalising on significant investments in models, facilities, and national datasets. The anticipated outcome of this research program, including the tools and data that will be made available on the DAFNI platform, promises long-term value.

埋藏的基础设施系统容易受到气象冲击或极端天气事件的影响，例如由于极端降水以及极端温度而引起的洪水和干旱。此类事件可以导致土壤运动，热收缩和膨胀以及污水坑以及其他问题。尽管紧迫，我们的社会并未为这些冲击对埋藏基础设施的影响做好充分的准备。我们对风险在哪里以及它仍然很差的理解，因为现有的风险评估工具不能全面考虑洪水和地下水分/温度变化的影响。尚不清楚英国埋藏的基础设施可以应对重大天气事件的程度尚不清楚。这种理解对于制定有效的弹性策略至关重要。该项目旨在为埋藏的基础设施开发全面的与天气有关的风险评估框架，其中包括对城市和城市生活至关重要的电缆和管道。该框架将用于了解天气事件和气候变化对这些基础设施的潜在影响。项目团队还将与利益相关者共同开发适应措施，以提高对这些极端事件的韧性。目的将通过五个相互关联的工作包来实现。这包括1）为水文条件创建广泛的建模方法； 2）确定当前和未来的水文和气象场景，为掩埋的基础设施带来风险； 3）采用先进的流体动力建模和脆弱性分析来了解埋藏的管道和电缆如何应对不同的条件； 4）将开发的模型和数据集整合在一起以进行全面的风险评估，以及5）与利益相关者共同开发的韧性和适应策略。该项目有望带来重大的社会和经济影响。通过增强基础架构运营商和公用事业公司之间的决策能力，这项研究可以导致服务中断，潜在的成本节省，并提高基础架构系统的恢复能力，面对气象性冲击和气候变化，该项目利用了各种机构的专业知识。用于气象冲击的基础设施，通过利用模型，设施和国家数据集的大量投资来证明物有所值。该研究计划的预期结果，包括在DAFNI平台上提供的工具和数据，承诺长期价值。