Latest news and stories about infrastructure resilience in Portugal for expats and residents.
Hélder Sousa, an assistant researcher at the University of Minho specialising in risk analysis and infrastructure resilience, explains how to mitigate the potential damage caused by a passing storm.
Fernando de Almeida Santos considers the Government’s measures appropriate at this stage, but emphasises that a lack of planning and resilient engineering worsened the storm’s impacts. The president of the Order of Engineers argues that infrastructure such as underground medium- and low-voltage networks would have mitigated much of the recorded failures.
Commander Ricardo Pastor explains the difficulties operational teams have been experiencing on the ground after the passage of Storm Kristin.
An analysis of systemic and institutional shortcomings that prevent organisations and infrastructure from predicting and preparing effectively for disasters.
Portugal has already received the green light from the European Commission and will launch by April the first tender for so-called “critical infrastructure resilience” covering hospitals, airports and telecommunications-related buildings. The aim is to prepare essential services to continue operating even in emergency situations, such as major failures in the power supply.
