Infrastructure resilience
Resilience is a key part of sustainable and quality infrastructure. It requires addressing short-term infrastructure challenges through both the maintenance and building of sustainable infrastructure for the future. Effective management is critical for ensuring that infrastructure can withstand external shocks.
Assessment on life cycle perspective used by OECD countries to help identify proposals offering the best value for money, 2020
Why is this important?
Infrastructure is long-lived and the adverse effects of aging infrastructure can threaten its value for money and capacity to deliver the services that it is intended to provide. To ensure quality of services, infrastructure needs to be resilient. Resilience is essential to absorb the impacts of adverse shocks. Tackling the complex challenges and opportunities related to infrastructure resilience and maintenance requires a multidimensional approach. It must consider factors at the local, regional, national and global levels. This approach seeks to get the best out of an infrastructure asset over its life cycle, across functions and the entire infrastructure system/network, leveraging new technologies and nature-based solutions.