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Encore+ Workshop: Engineering Standards for Resilient Systems
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Location
Beacon House (Seminar Room)
Queen's Road Clifton Bristol BS8 1SE United KingdomDescription
Do engineering standards support or undermine the creation of resilient systems?
An ENCORE Network+ Workshop hosted by the International Centre for Infrastructure Futures at the University of Bristol’s Systems Centre
Engineering standards and design codes reflect best practice to provide frameworks that manage complexity and reduce variability so that compliance results in safe, predictably tolerable outcomes.
However, standardisation and the prevention of variability can constrain the conditionsrequired for sustainable and resilient systems to meet changingsocio-environmental needs, as wellas their resistance and recovery from un-anticipated hazards.
This workshop will implement simple toolsbased on Systems Theory to explore the complex relationships between design codes, the behaviours they create in those that follow them, and the products of their design. It will seek to investigate how standards can constrain the capabilities that contribute to a system’s resilience and the proactive ways in which they can support those same capabilities.
Lunch will be provided.
For more infromation please contact Dr Neil Carhart at icif-info@bristol.ac.uk
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Dr Neil Carhart is a Lecture in Infrastructure Systems within the University of Bristol’s Department of Civil Engineering. Following a period within the civil nuclear industry his current research focuses on the development of Systems Engineering practice and the application of the Systems Approach to infrastructure resilience, sustainability. health and interdependency challenges.
Twitter: @NeilCarhart
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