UK: NIC launches new infrastructure resilience study

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has launched a new consultation to gather views as part of a new study into the resilience of the UK’s infrastructure network.

The new study will examine what actions the government should take to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure can cope with future changes, disruptions, shocks and accidents – from increased risks of flooding due to climate change, to the “ever-increasing dependencies” on digital technologies.

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The NIC said the responses during the latest consultation would help inform the development of a new framework to consider resilience across economic infrastructure, which will then be used during development of the next National Infrastructure Assessment.

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“We want to hear from those across the public and private sectors, and researchers, about the priorities and the questions that the framework we’re developing should seek to address, and the barriers to developing resilient infrastructure that our study should seek to overcome,” [said NIC chairman Sir John Armitt].

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