Reston, Va. – This latest technical report from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Effects of Climate Change on Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructure Systems: Safety, Reliability, and Risk, explores efforts to implement criteria, techniques, and tools for the life-cycle design, assessment, maintenance, and management of civil structures and infrastructure systems under climate change.
The task committee identified several goals for this new book. First, they reviewed current information on climate change. The next step involved outlining methods to update current design standards to account for climate change. Lastly, they identified methodologies and tools to help civil engineers address the impacts of climate change on the life cycle performance, safety, and risk of structures and infrastructure systems.
The main topics covered in this report include:
- Structures and infrastructures under climate change,
- Climate projection models and data,
- Impact of climate change on infrastructure performance, and
- Life-cycle risk-based decision making in a changing climate.
Structural engineers, researchers, government officials and decision-makers can use this new resource to advance their understanding of climate change. It will also assist them to account for the effects of climate change on life-cycle performance of existing and future structures and infrastructure systems.
