Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
Critical infrastructure and lifelines covers the systems whose failure cascades across society: electricity, water and wastewater, transport, telecommunications, and health and emergency services.
The model
From a lost feeder to a resilience loss: the functionality curve and the cascade behind it
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a lost feeder to a resilience loss: the functionality curve and the cascade behind it
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For engineers, utility planners, regulators and emergency managers who need to rank lifeline assets, trace how a failure in one system propagates into others, and set restoration priorities before an event.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Critical infrastructure and lifelines's own model runs in the scene at the top of this page: set its parameters there and play the steps. The separate chart simulator is left off this page so that it stays within its size budget.
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The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
Courses with this primary disciplineIn development
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Digital twins, sensors and robotics for inspection. |
| Risk technology creates | Cascading cyber-physical failure and vendor lock-in. |
Start with Rinaldi, then Hallegatte, then Hosseini.
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The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, labs, hours and level.