Resilient infrastructure: What does it look like and how do we achieve it?

The latest webinar in FIDIC’s ongoing 2024 series of online events took place on 5 November 2024, with a webinar looking at the need to build resilient infrastructure to take account of the challenges of climate change and ensure it is truly sustainable for the short, medium and long term.

The webinar, Resilient infrastructure: What does it look like and how do we achieve it? was organised by FIDIC’s Sustainable Development Committee and highlighted that resilient infrastructure was an indispensable foundation for achieving sustainable development. “Infrastructure provides critical services to communities, supporting economic functions and serving as the first line of defence against shocks and disasters,” said FIDIC board member and director of CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter in Zambia, Martina Hess, as she opened the webinar. “Making infrastructure resilient is not a ‘nice to have’, it is absolutely essential, especially in the face of the growing impact of climate change affecting our planet,” said Hess.

An expert panel of speakers at the webinar was led by webinar chair, Natalie Muir, regional director, environment and geosciences at Stantec in Australia, who is also a vice-chair of FIDIC’s Sustainable Development Committee. Speakers included Pia Abercromby, leading specialist in sustainability at COWI from Canada, Vivian Lee, director of operations, water, environment and sustainability at Aurecon in China, Latoya Ouna, an independent infrastructure procurement and contracts consultant from Kenya, Tara Wood, head of sustainability and innovation at Ramboll ​in Sweden and Franziska Hunger, an applied researcher at the Fraunhofer-Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics, also from Sweden.

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