Adaptive pathways for critical infrastructure resilience

Climate change is triggering hazard events more frequently and the costs of the consequences on the built environment are higher. This induced the advent of resilience-based engineering. More recently adaptive pathways (APs) were presented to allow adaptive management as well as dynamic and flexible decision-making. APs allow, specifically in climate change contexts, the consideration of stressors that occur incrementally or cumulatively and amplified hazard scenarios. Thus, an AP framework enhanced with emerging technologies is proposed for critical infrastructure. It benefits from the resilience and sustainability of emerging technologies throughout the lifetimes of critical infrastructure. This advanced AP framework is supported by continuous assessment of the infrastructure performance, continuous monitoring, and implementation of mitigation measures if needed. The Hollandse Bridge case study is offered to demonstrate the framework.