This module focusses on the basics of infrastructure as a complex system, giving priority to the interdependencies across infrastructure, and how these links result in macro infrastructure properties, such as resilience, security, and adaptability. Challenges for infrastructure including climate change are elaborated in the context of infrastructure as a system of systems. Exciting opportunities from digitalisation, decentralisation, democratisation, decarbonisation, etc. are exposed, highlighting the connectedness of nature, society and engineered systems. It is essential for future engineering leaders to appreciate how their sectoral systems create stakeholder value and deliver critical services in the context of infrastructure as a whole, and how these values and services change over time. The course also provides an overview of transdisciplinary approaches and methods for the analysis and visualisation of infrastructure, equipping students with the skills to communicate challenges, opportunities and recommendations to improve outcomes from infrastructure throughout its lifecycle both in today’s and tomorrow’s worlds.

Learning Outcomes

Recognize the challenges for evaluation and assessment of infrastructure systems and the differences in stakeholder perspectives and worldviews
	Explain modern trends, societal reforms, and goals for cleaner and healthier infrastructure systems with related outcomes for social well-being
	Compare methods, approaches, techniques and articulate their limitations and suitability to solve particular research problems in current and future infrastructure systems
	Articulate the benefits of digitalization, automation, artificial intelligence and other general purpose technologies regarding their potential to meet societal needs and aspirations
	Develop skills to communicate, represent and visualize infrastructure systems to convey challenges and potential solutions to the public
	Develop skills to communicate, represent and visualize infrastructure systems to convey challenges and potential solutions to the public
Essential Reading

Saeid Saidi, Lina Kattan, Poornima Jayasinghe, Patrick Hettiaratchi, Joshua Taron, Integrated infrastructure systems—A review, Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 36,

2018, Pages 1-11, ISSN 2210-6707, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.09.022