Further to our successful series in 2024, we are delighted to continue with another series in 2025!
Stay tuned for further updates throughout the year!
Webinar: STORMS – Strategies and tools for resilience of buried infrastructure to meteorological shocks
Date: 30th April, 2025 12pm
Dr Xilin Xia, Assistant Professor in Resilience Engineering, University of Birmingham, will present on the DAFNI-funded STORMS project – Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks.
STORMS has developed a weather-related risk assessment framework to increase resilience to weather-related risks, including analysing soil structure data and damage calculations for buried pipes. DAFNI is being used for the workflows and visualisations.
The STORMS project also models what may happen in the future and can be used to help map required adaptations for climate change and to increase resilience at network and national scale to inform national guidance.
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Webinar: Data Infrastructure for National Infrastructure (DINI)
Date: 21st May, 2025 12pm
DAFNI Programme Lead Brian Matthews will be presenting the research from the DAFNI-DINI project work, including use cases and champions, and discuss the project results and recommendations.
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Webinar: FIRM – Flood Resilience Simulation Model on DAFNI
Date: 25th June, 2025 12pm
Richard Dawson, Professor of Earth Systems Engineering at Newcastle University, will present his research on the FIRM Flood Infrastructure Resilience Model simulates flooding and the human response to flood events. That human behaviour element, and the interactions between people and flooding, is the key distinguishing feature of FIRM.
FIRM can be used to explore flood events of different magnitude and test the effect of choices people make in response to extreme weather events, in order to model how people are likely to be exposed to dangerous depths and speeds of water.
FIRM will help flood resilience forums, councils and policymakers implement improved before-the-flood measures such as better public education and warning systems, improved during-event people and traffic flows, and improved infrastructure resilience evacuation sites.
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Webinar in collaboration with ICE: Using data analytics for national infrastructure
Date: 26th June, 2025 12pm
In this ICE South West Lunch & Learn session, Kyle Stevenson and Teagan Zoldoske will introduce the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) platform.
The webinar will discuss how the platform is being used for various civil engineering applications such as:
- Digital twins
- Flooding hazards
- Infrastructure demands
- Transportation modelling
Attendees will see a demo of how the platform works in practice and learn about the importance of data analytics in helping to make infrastructure more efficient, reliable, resilient and affordable.
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Webinar: MARS – Modelling Aviation Resilience Scenarios
Date: 16th July, 2025 12pm
Drs Fabian Steinmann and Desmond Bisandu will present their research from their project, MARS, which seeks to explore the resilience of the UK aviation system during mass diversion events.
The Cranfield team will develop a computational model of the UK airport network and conduct simulations involving airport closures that result in mass diversions. The project involves data collection and data pre-processing before a computational model of the UK airport network can be built.
This model enables the research team to simulate airport closures and investigate the subsequent diversion of aircraft to alternate airports. The work of the Cranfield team will help identify potential bottlenecks during mass diversion events and build a foundation for evaluating the resilience of the UK aviation system.
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Webinar: NIRD CoE – Building systemic resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks at the national scale
Date: 24th September, 2025 12pm
This webinar will be led by Raghav Pant, from the University of Oxford, about the NIRD CoE project.
In recent years, extreme flood and storm events across the UK have affected large numbers of infrastructure networks and their customers. These events resulted in economic damages and losses of the order of tens of millions of pounds.
The lack of coherent datasets of interconnected networks and cross-sectoral resilience metrics makes it challenging for government agencies and infrastructure operators to plan for and respond to extreme large-scale weather events.
The NIRD CoE project aims to deliver an open-source modelling framework on the DAFNI platform for stress-testing interdependent network resilience against flood and storm events.
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