Critical infrastructure

Tornadoes are deadly, and part of the reason is due of the short warning times — on average 10 to 15 minutes., there is no time to evacuate. You must rely on the walls around you and the local building code could be the difference between life and death.

This set of checklist assesses the comprehensiveness and depth of their building code provisions, focusing on four major elements: structural resilience, fire safety, green buildings, and universal accessibility.

More potential hazards loom even as the waters slowly recede across the upper Plains.

Grids are the arteries and veins of electricity circulation. Comprising of power stations, substations, transformers, transmission and distribution lines, the grid connects electricity supply to demand.

More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.

The paper focuses on the supply of reliable power and complements recent works that estimate firms and households’ willingness to pay for stable power access.

Climate change (CC) will likely significantly impact the world’s infrastructure significantly. This article reports on a study which examined the connections and impacts of CC on infrastructure.

Increasing use of fans, air coolers and air conditioners is placing ‘serious’ strain on grid in north of country