Highlights•There is an intrinsic tension between efficiency (E) and resilience (R).•Greater
resilience often means less efficiency, and vice versa.•Infrastructure systems tend to align …

Identifying Disaster resilience indices (DRI) for cities and communities remains a common
approach for assessing their structural ability and inherent capacity to cope with, recover …

The development of the IFC 4.3 candidate standard sets the pathway for interoperability
amongst different infrastructures that have been harmonized under the buildingSMART …

Among the many repercussions of the COVID-19 emergency to be assessed, those on
critical infrastructures and the associated businesses and professions are certainly important …

Our modern world is highly dependent on the functioning of a complex system of
interdependent infrastructures. Failure of one infrastructure can have severe and far …

Complex adaptive systems–such as critical infrastructures (CI)–are defined by their vast,
multi-level interactions and emergent behaviors, but this elaborate web of interactions often …

Infrastructure systems have legacies that continue to define their priorities, goals, flexibility,
and ability to make sense of their environments. These legacies may or may not align with …

The concept of resilience has been used extensively across the sciences in engineering and
the humanities. It is applied to ecology, medicine, economics, and psychology. The novel …

Critical infrastructure resilience requires disintegrating traditional silos of stakeholders to
form collaborative network such as a public-private partnership. Critical infrastructure …

Purpose Despite the benefits provided by the implementation of the lean philosophy, the
most recent research discusses whether the high degrees of efficiency obtained with the …