Digital Twin Platform Canada’s Resilience to Climate Induced Risk

Over the past decades, Canada has witnessed a continuous increase in the frequency and magnitude of climate change-induced natural disasters. Flood events are considered the most occurring climate-induced hazards in Canada. Cities rely on a series of Critical Infrastructure Networks (CIN) to perform adequately, flood events can be the reason for serious disruptions in these CINs. City resilience is the capacity of an urban system to recover and reach an acceptable level of functionality after being exposed to a hazard. Up until this stage, city resilience research has been focusing on modeling certain aspects of the built environment, without a mean to model future changes. This calls for a tool that would empower decision makers to predict, visualize, optimize, and run what-if scenarios before tampering with the built environment. The proposed research will contribute to the development of a framework that will assist managers and decision makers develop policies and optimize specified sets of city-flood resilience within specific resources and time constraints, and immediately visualize the consequences and act accordingly, potentially saving Canadians millions of taxpayers’ money.

Faculty Supervisor:

Wael El-Dakhakhni

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Partner:

University of Cambridge

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

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