This webinar will give an update on CIHT's project on “Resilience and adaptation to extreme weather conditions in the highways sector” and will explore how the transport sector can plan its resilience to uncertain climate scenarios.
Representatives from our Partner organisations and CIHT Technical Champions have formed three working groups for 2024. Each group will develop and deliver a technical paper that will positively influence the sector and support the changes the sector needs to take to progress and develop.
The working group presenting at this event is focused on:
Resilience and adaptation to extreme weather conditions in the highways sector
Overview of the project
The need for maintenance and renewals of the UK ageing infrastructure faces the additional challenges of adapting to the effects of extreme weather events.
This new CIHT project, supported by the new National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe) aims at producing a report on resilience and adaptation to extreme weather events of the UK road infrastructure, focusing particularly on:
- the challenges posed by aging structures and the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events
- good practice of design, implementation and construction processes that allow the road infrastructure to respond to emergencies, recover asset conditions and reduce future risks associate with extreme weather events
- building a call for investing in maintaining, renewing and adapting our roads to extreme weather
In this webinar how the transport sector can get ready to tackle the impacts that changing climate could have on the infrastructure through data collection, analysis and interpretation.
Professor Hayley Fowler
Hayley Fowler is Professor of Climate Change Impacts in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on improved physical understanding of changing precipitation extremes and providing better projections for climate adaptation. She has pioneered new downscaling techniques to bridge the gap between climate modellers and users of climate scenarios (e.g. UKCP09 Weather Generator). She specialises in the analysis of the impacts of climate change and variability on hydrological and water resource systems, examining recent trends in extremes and future projections and their impacts on flood and drought risks. She has been instrumental in the analysis of climate model outputs and development of new downscaling techniques to bridge the gap between modellers and users of climate information (e.g. UKCP09 Weather Generator).
This event is open to all employees from our Partner organisations, CIHT members, and Non CIHT Members
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