Chapter 11
Infrastructure Resilience
The pioneers will be those countries able to benefit from the
opportunities presented by the new economy which, at the
same time, will be ready to master the challenges, changes
and problems generated by attempts to adapt to it – creative
and agile countries that thrive on knowledge, information and
ideas.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Infrastructure design is defining an infrastructure system that
will meet the customer’s goals for Functionality, Availability,
Manageability, Performance, Efficiency, Recoverability, and
Security.
Craig Risinger
Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.
(The King v Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB
256, [1923] All ER Rep 233))
Similarly, infrastructure must not only be implemented, but
must be seen to perform excellently.
Taken together, this intellectual edifice is an extraordinary
testament to human ingenuity. But the whole is no stronger
than its weakest member.
B. B Mandelbrot., R. L Hudson
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough
money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to
the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no
reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect
infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and
other calamities, natural and manmade.
Henry Petroski
Les vents me sont moins qu’à vous redoutables
Je plie, et ne romps pas.
The winds for me are much less dangerous than for thee;
I bend, but do not break.
Jean de la Fontaine (Le Chêne et le Roseau)
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Infrastructure Resilience
The pioneers will be those countries able to benefit from the
opportunities presented by the new economy which, at the
same time, will be ready to master the challenges, changes
and problems generated by attempts to adapt to it – creative
and agile countries that thrive on knowledge, information and
ideas.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Infrastructure design is defining an infrastructure system that
will meet the customer’s goals for Functionality, Availability,
Manageability, Performance, Efficiency, Recoverability, and
Security.
Craig Risinger
Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.
(The King v Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB
256, [1923] All ER Rep 233))
Similarly, infrastructure must not only be implemented, but
must be seen to perform excellently.
Taken together, this intellectual edifice is an extraordinary
testament to human ingenuity. But the whole is no stronger
than its weakest member.
B. B Mandelbrot., R. L Hudson
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough
money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to
the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no
reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect
infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and
other calamities, natural and manmade.
Henry Petroski
Les vents me sont moins qu’à vous redoutables
Je plie, et ne romps pas.
The winds for me are much less dangerous than for thee;
I bend, but do not break.
Jean de la Fontaine (Le Chêne et le Roseau)
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48559-7_11
305