This year saw infrastructure resilience included in the Carbon Crunch programme for the first time. It is recognition that our infrastructure is being exposed to greater environmental risks than before, and so the impacts on people and communities will be even more profound.

If construction does not properly consider the growing risks of rising floods and extreme heat events, any low carbon infrastructure we build could become prematurely obsolete.

But as with the realisation 10 years ago that a low carbon approach also reduces costs, the data suggests that resilience offers a similar business case, when the whole lifecycle of an asset is considered.

This is part two of a two-part Engineering Matters special on Carbon Crunch 2022. This episode focuses on infrastructure resilience.

Guests

Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair, Green Finance Institute

Denise Bower, External Engagement Director, Mott MacDonald

Alexandre Chavarot, Strategic Adviser, Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment

Lisa Constable, Strategic Lead for Weather Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation, Great British Railways Transition Team

Sarah Hayes, Strategic Engagement Lead – Credo, Connected Places Catapult

Iliana Lazarova, Head of Environmental, Social, Resilience and Governance, UK Infrastructure Bank

Richard Thorp, Engineering Director, High Speed 1

Resources

For more information on Carbon Crunch, click here

For more information on PCRAM, click here

To read the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, click here

To listen to part one of this two-part special, click here

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