Resilient infrastructure

Mark Reiner, PhD, PE

Distinguishing Built Environment from Infrastructure for Urban Resilience

Definitions, Frameworks, and Project vs System In order to provide more effective strategies for urban resilience, the terms...

Mark Reiner, PhD, PE

Defining ‘Reliable’ Infrastructure as a Key Performance Metric for City Resilience

While there are numerous frameworks assisting cities in establishing sustainability and resilience goals, I have yet to find one that...

Mark Reiner, PhD, PE

Dependency model: reliable infrastructure and the resilient, sustainable, and livable city

There are interwoven relationships between a city’s physical infrastructure and the dependence on its reliable functioning by societal...

Mark Reiner, PhD, PE

Addressing the Infrastructure Decay Rate in US Cities: the case for a paradigm shift in information

WISRD contributed a chapter to a new book: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure The current paradigm used by...

Mark Reiner, PhD, PE

Foundational infrastructure framework for city resilience

The city is a complex interdependent system of natural, social, and structural systems – a ‘system of systems.’ Each system is important...

Mark Reiner, PhD, PE

Integrating a City’s Existing Infrastructure Vulnerabilities for Achieving City Resilience Goals

Cities are setting both sustainability and resilience goals that recognize the significant pressures that cities will face over the...