engineering, managing and developing smarter, more sustainable and resilient infrastructure in the age of the Anthropocene

1. Michael A. Salvato
Vice President
Infrastructure Asset Management
Mott MacDonald
Engineering, managing and developing
infrastructure in the Age of the Anthropocene
Smarter, more sustainable
and resilient infrastructure
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“I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
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The safe level of
carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere is
350 parts per
million.
Global CO2
Concentrations
Just Passed 400
Parts Per Million.

3. Based on a range of plausible emission scenarios, average temperatures
will rise between 2°C and 6°C by the end of the 21st century.
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming/page5.php

4. Climate change is causing a variety of environmental disasters
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5. Infrastructure resilience is the ability to reduce the
magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events. The
effectiveness of a resilient infrastructure or
enterprise depends upon its ability to anticipate,
absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from a
potentially disruptive event.
What is resilience?
National Infrastructure Advisory Council
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6. “Now there is one outstandingly
important fact regarding Spaceship
Earth, and that is that no instruction
book came with it”
"So, planners, architects, and
engineers take the initiative"
― R. Buckminster Fuller
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7. Cyber-physical systems, aka
Smart Infrastructure,
combine Sensors, Information
and Communication
Technologies with the physical
components and processes.
This enables deeper
knowledge of the
environment and more
accurate actions and tasks.
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8. The marriage of digital technologies and physical infrastructure has
given birth to SMART INFRASTRUCTURE
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Digital
Sensors
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
BIM/GIS
Big Data
Smart
Infrastructure Physical
Water
Energy
Transportation
Telecoms
Waste
Sustainable Outcomes

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Smart Infrastructure “responds intelligently to changes in its
environment, including user demands and other infrastructure, to
achieve an improved performance” - Royal Academy of Engineering
Physical
Twin
Digital
Twin
Data
Interventions Decisions
Outcomes Insights

10. Asset Management System
(ISO 55000)
Asset Information Management System
(ISO 19650)
Risk Management
System
(ISO 31000)
Requirements
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Smart Infrastructure requires coupling asset management with
better information management to deliver sustainable outcome
Asset Acquisition, Operations, Maintenance, and Disposal
(ISO 15288)
Asset Lifecycle
Management
Sustainable
Outcomes
ISO 37152
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11. Sustainable Infrastructure
…infrastructure that is planned,
designed, constructed, and
operated to optimize environmental,
societal, and economic outcomes
over the long term.
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12. Infrastructure is key to unlocking
sustainable development goals
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https://www.unops.org/news-and-stories/news/new-oxford-university-unops-report-stresses-
infrastructure-as-key-to-unlocking-sustainable-development-goals
“In a sense, infrastructure
can be a “Trojan horse” that
brings sustainability
considerations within the
purview of the economic
imperatives of most
governments.”
Prof. Jim Hall,
University of Oxford
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13. A world in which warming reaches 4°C above preindustrial levels,
would be one of unprecedented heat waves, severe drought, and
major floods in many regions, with serious impacts on human
systems, ecosystems, and associated services.
World Bank "Turn down the heat ~ Why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided"
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Infrastructure is responsible for
over 50% of the GHG emissions

14. Reducing the carbon footprint of an infrastructure is essential
As the world’s first low carbon infrastructure
specification, PAS 2080 establishes a
common understanding, approach and
language for whole life carbon management
in the provision of economic infrastructure
(defined as water, energy, transport,
communications and waste).
It’s increasingly clear that cutting carbon cuts costs.
UK Treasury’s Infrastructure Cost Review
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Mott MacDonald is leading way. Visit our Carbon Portal
https://www.mottmac.com/article/7748/carbon-tools

15. Guidance on Transforming Infrastructure
http://www.p13.org.uk/
https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/Resources/ResoucePublications/TheGeminiPrinciples.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transforming-infrastructure-performance
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16. Construction
Capital Costs
Outputs
Smart Systems
Sustainable Value
Resilient Outcomes
Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
requires a change in paradigm
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17. Thank you
Michael A. Salvato
Vice President, Infrastructure Asset Management
Mott MacDonald
T +1 (973) 788 6237
michael.salvato@mottmac.com
Opening opportunities with connected thinking
Connecting the digital to the physical
Delivering sustainable solutions
We are called to be
Architects of the Future,
not its victims…
- R. Buckminster Fuller