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Sustainability and Resiliency

  • 1.  Sustainability and Resiliency

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    "Sustainability and Resiliency"
    Sustainability and resilience are two corresponding properties of an infrastructure
    Sustainability deals with the continual impacts on the environment, economy, and society over the service life of an infrastructure
    Resilience principally addresses the resistance to sudden impacts due to unanticipated failure
    A whole consideration of both sustainability and resilience is indicative of the quality of an infrastructure

    Intangible Definition
    "Sustainability"
    Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
    "Resilience"
    Is the ability of human communities to withstand external shocks or perturbations to their infrastructure and to recover from such perturbations
    "Four Pillars of Resiliency"
    Robustness, Resourcefulness, Rapidity, and Redundancy

    "Discussion"
    - Assessing the sustainability and resiliency of an infrastructure is essential for a holistic design
    - Several methods exist to perform these assessments separately
    However, sustainability and resiliency assessments have several similarities
    - Both analyses require life cycle assessments to study the impacts
    - Both analyses study the impact of economic, environmental, and societal aspects

    - Limited research on unified assessment methods for sustainability and resiliency
    - Existing frameworks are often overly complex, or specialized
    - Value in assessing both sustainability and resiliency with the ever-increasing risk of catastrophic events
    - Work performed consisted of discrete analysis of both resiliency and sustainability, then unified analysis incorporating risk

    "Challenges"
    - Rapid industrialization
    - Population growth
    - Human-induced disturbances
    - Natural hazards
    - Aging and durability issues

    "UN's Sustainable Development Goals"
    Adopted in 2015 by the UN, Targeting 2030
    The COVID-19 pandemic has a huge impact on all of these goals


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    Akram Saad
    Sr. Project Manager
    akram.saad@gmail.com
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