Istanbul is hosting the IRF World Congress 2024 from 15 to 18 October. Various mobility and infrastructure experts will converge to discuss sustainability, green and inclusive mobility, and innovations.
Of course, we’ll be among them. Our team members will be present at our booth and at different conferences to discuss shaping tomorrow’s road networks.
Indeed, we see the IRF World Congress 2024 as an opportunity to demonstrate our expertise in infrastructure, especially in building climate-resilient roads.
"Resilient Road Networks for Resilient Transport & Societies"
This represents one of the IRF World Congress 2024’s themes and one of our most crucial endeavours.
Climate change impacts more and more road networks, and natural catastrophes such as extreme heat, landslides, or floods destroy roads.
Roads embody human connectivity. They enable us to access the city’s services and enjoy life daily. We rely on them to get around easily.
When conceiving infrastructure networks, we need to consider climate resilience. But how exactly can we predict the climate challenges a road network will face in 30 or 50 years?
By gathering what science and technology have the best to provide. That’s how we come up with our Climate Resilience Methodology.
This methodology enables us to assess a road network’s vulnerabilities and climate risks. The goal is to determine and identify how to design a resilient road network.
What is ORIS Climate Resilience Methodology?
First, be aware that we incorporate AI, data, and science into our platform. Combined with our civil engineering and climate resilience expertise, our digital solution guides public authorities to invest in vulnerable infrastructure first and engineers to design with an eye on sustainability for more efficiency.
ORIS allows them to make informed decisions based on sustainable, resilient, and cost-effective criteria. They choose what works best for their project.
It’s about using digital technologies for the greater good. In this case, for sustainable and resilient development.
Tackling climate resilience in the infrastructure industry requires innovation, strategy, and methodology.
We have developed a methodology at ORIS to calculate a unified resilience score. It rests on 3 elements:
- Climate screening to identify impacts: heat, flooding, frost/thaw cycles
- Infrastructure vulnerability to underscore weak points: road condition
- Social impact to analyze the overall societal needs: user delay, population nearby
Danilo Ebbinghaus Carrari, our Climate Change Expert, explains it all in this video:
As you can see, digital technology can help us tackle climate change and its consequences for linear infrastructure.
We use our multi-criteria platform to provide our clients with scenarios focused on climate resilience, the project's cost-effectiveness, and its needs regarding material resources…
Then our clients have all the information they need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, reduce their costs and material needs…
Conceiving climate-resilient road networks: example in Central Asia
We used our platform and Climate Resilience Methodology to assess 7.765 km of a regional road network in Central Asia.
This gave us critical insights into the network’s vulnerabilities due to climate change, impacting infrastructure and the community that depends on it to access public services:
- 25% of roads were identified at a high to extreme risk of exposure to climate change
- 30% of the local population nearby could be affected
- Rising temperatures may weaken flexible pavement roads, especially with frequent freeze-thaw cycles
- Flood-prone areas were identified to pose threats to rural access to essential facilities
Climate change pushes us to build differently. We must conceive safe and durable climate-resilient road networks that will remain there 50 years from now.
Meet our experts at the IRF World Congress 2024
We need to act now for sustainable infrastructure, and one way to do this is by attending the IRF World Congress 2024.
We’ll meet fellow industry experts and leaders, exchange with policymakers, and learn from each other.
From October 15-18, our team of experts will be at booth 123 to discuss climate resilience, adaptations and mitigations, pavement design optimisation, decarbonisation and collaboration with Autobahn, connectivity with rural communities with UNIDO, and socio-economic development.
We live and breathe to design better road networks for all. And it takes form in becoming a mission-driven company that actively commits on 4 pillars:
- Provide digitized knowledge of the impact of the choice of construction materials used in infrastructure
- Enable the construction infrastructure sector to measure and optimize the environmental impact of materials
- Contribute to inclusive transport networks in line with global development objectives
- Build equitable and balanced growth through an HR approach that cares about the well-being of its employees and a healthy relationship at work
Together, let’s continue to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conceive climate-resilient networks that will make us proud.
The road ahead can be greener for us all.
