COGGE Webinar - 10/24/2024: Strategies for Resilient Lifeline Infrastructure

Lifeline infrastructure systems are an integral backbone of today’s communities, providing important services such as water delivery and wastewater management, electricity and communications, and transportation. These systems are also exposed to multiple natural hazards, and many of their assets have critical components that are founded or buried below the ground surface. A thorough understanding of the subsurface and the life cycle condition of these assets is needed to evaluate the risks imposed on them by extreme geohazards, often combined with extreme weather effects. Earthquakes, floods, rainfalls, wildfires, and associated hazards such as fault rupture, liquefaction, landslides, scour, and alterations of topography and soils properties are some examples of geohazards that lifelines can be exposed to. Addressing the risk requires assessments on a component, asset, system, and system-of-system scales that likely involves localized or regional decisions. This webinar discussion will inform geoprofessionals about the available strategies for resilient lifeline infrastructure design and the need for continued innovation. The role of mitigation solutions in enhancing lifeline resilience through a holistic, better-than-code thinking and more realistic performance goals will also be discussed