Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
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The department studies the built fabric of a city as one system: buildings and their exposure, the road and rail network, the port and airport, the substations that feed them and the engineering that keeps them reliable.
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Search termsCities and Infrastructure Systems; Critical infrastructure and lifelines; Cities, housing and the built environment; Transport, ports and logistics; Reliability, safety and resilience engineeringDerived from the Risk Academy page on Department of Cities and Infrastructure Systems.
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Critical infrastructure and lifelines, Cities, housing and the built environment, Transport, ports and logistics, Reliability, safety and resilience engineering
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