Resilient Infrastructure

Resilient, reliable infrastructure is essential to our communities, providing conduits for critical services like potable water and sewer systems, electricity and communication utilities and facilitating transportation via bridges, roads, airports and railways. We help owners, facility managers, public agencies and governments safeguard their critical infrastructure against natural hazards, climate change and human-induced threats. Our resilience and protective design and security teams work together to develop solutions to prepare for and maintain critical operations following a hazardous event.

Here's How

Prioritizing Budget

When you're dealing with an area-wide infrastructure network, the most vulnerable components are often hard to spot. We help identify how threats and hazards, including aging, might impact the performance of your infrastructure and how owners, governments and operators can prepare to withstand and adapt to them. Our multidisciplinary approach to prioritizing budgetary considerations identifies the most vulnerable assets that require attention first. We then develop a plan for climate action and threat mitigation over the short, medium, and long terms. Our holistic approach includes identifying dependencies among infrastructure systems to detect cascading and multiplying effects.

Maintaining Critical Services

We understand that different structural and nonstructural elements behave differently during an earthquake, flood or other hazardous event, and we work with your team to understand exactly what is needed to keep your business operational during and immediately after an event or reduce the time and repair costs associated with functional recovery. Each client is unique, and no two projects are alike. Our engineers and design professionals help you maintain critical lifeline infrastructure services through inspections and maintenance program planning; condition assessments and remedial improvements; and backup power, passive and redundant systems. 

Qualifications

We offer a variety of resilient infrastructure capabilities for a wide range of structures, including:

• Battery storage
• Bridge inspection
• Centralized utility planning
• Community resilience initiatives
• Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) consulting
• Emergency preparedness
• FEMA hazard mitigation grant proposal preparation
• FEMA safe room assessment and design
• Green infrastructure
• Passive house consulting
• Performance-based engineering
• Plaza and streetscape design
• Portfolio vulnerability assessments
• Protective design
• Renewable energy
• Roadway and bridge design
• Security design and consulting
• Smart-city concepts
• Stormwater and utility system design
• Threat, vulnerability and risk assessments (TVRA)
• Tunnels and transit facility design