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Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
Lifelines fail in chains: a substation trips, pumps stop, a port closes, a supply chain stalls.
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- Terrain 0 to 523 m
- 83,815 buildings in the box
- 5,085 footprints in the core, 2,796 with an estimated height
- Roads 176 km
- Rail 99 km
- 57 substations
- 4 port
- 2 airport
- 5 hospitals
- 8 railway stations
- 4 water works
- 2 power plants, 202 MW
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How one outage becomes four: lifeline dependencies and the buffers that hold them
Lifelines fail in chains. A substation outage reaches water pumps, hospital generators and telephone exchanges through dependencies, and what decides whether a city copes is the size of the buffers at each link: storage, fuel, batteries and the hours each one buys.
Sources: Rinaldi, Peerenboom and Kelly, Identifying, understanding, and analysing critical infrastructure interdependencies (2001); NIST, Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, volume 1 (2016); UNDRR, Principles for resilient infrastructure (2022).
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Energy and its partners
Energy gives power for transport and telecoms to infrastructure (0.8), pumping and treatment to water (0.5) and fertiliser, machinery and cold chains to food (0.5).
W · E · I · F · H · B
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- 6 of 15
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- 0.46 share of total
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- Energy → Infrastructure · power for transport and telecoms0.8
- Water → Energy · cooling water and hydropower0.6
- Water → Food · irrigation0.8
- Infrastructure → Water · pipes, dams and treatment works0.6
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Critical infrastructure and lifelines, Cities, housing and the built environment, Transport, ports and logistics, Reliability, safety and resilience engineering, Energy systems and the energy transition, Climate and energy technologies, Critical minerals, mining and extractives, Energy transition risk and grid integration, Water and wastewater systems, Telecommunications and digital infrastructure, Trade, supply chains and geoeconomics, Advanced industry, manufacturing and materials
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Faculty of Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The faculty studies the lifelines, cities, energy systems, industries and supply chains that concentrate exposure and carry shocks from place to place.
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Lifeline
An infrastructure system whose failure cascades across society: electricity, water and wastewater, transport, telecommunications, health and emergency services.
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