GeoARMUR is a groundbreaking research project aimed at enhancing the resilience of critical infrastructure and buildings in urban areas. By leveraging transdisciplinary engineering asset management principles, we strive to advance life cycle management and foster more sustainable and resilient cities and societies.

The Challenge

Disasters, both natural and man-made, pose significant risks to urban areas, causing staggering economic losses and disrupting essential services. As the frequency and severity of these events escalate, effective risk management strategies and collaboration with the insurance industry are crucial.

Our Mission

GeoARMUR aims to establish a structured approach to enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure and buildings, ensuring that modern societies can rely on enhanced asset resilience for their proper functioning. We align our efforts with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (Goal 9), Sustainable Cities and Communities (Goal 11), and Climate Action (Goal 13).

Approach

Comprehensive Risk-Informed Asset-Centric Resilience Evaluation

We are developing a comprehensive method to assess and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure and built environments against climate change effects and multidimensional disaster risks.

Open Data Integration and GeoAI Models

By integrating open data into GeoAI models, we bolster the urban resilience evaluation process and support decision-making for municipalities and critical civil infrastructure asset managers.

Machine Learning for Big Data Analysis

Leveraging machine learning techniques, we uncover hidden patterns and insights to streamline complex decision-making processes and effectively prioritize competing priorities.

GeoARMUR Web-Based Platform

Our user-friendly online platform, geoarmur.com, serves as a centralized hub for communication and rapid dissemination of research findings and applications. It features dynamic GIS maps displaying key indicators related to asset resilience status.

Pilot Tests

Real-Case Implementation

In collaboration with the Lisbon municipality, we are conducting real-case pilot tests to apply the developed resilience evaluation method and assess critical constructed assets in diverse urban settings.

Deployment and Dissemination

Outreach and Impact Extension

We are developing a deployment roadmap to enhance outreach and extend the impact of our research outputs to public and private organizations managing infrastructure and building assets. By engaging governmental bodies, financial institutions, insurance companies, construction projects, and professionals in the AECO sector, we promote resilience-building initiatives and sustainable development.

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Contact

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Team

Nuno Marques de Almeida

Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources of the University of Lisbon (IST) and a member of the research unit Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS). His entrepreneurial, professional, research and academic activities are focused on protecting and deriving value from engineering assets through the assimilation of innovative management and technological solutions for critical infrastructure, buildings and advanced industrial facilities of both the public and private sectors, towards more resilient cities and societies. He has published more than 100 refereed journal and conference papers on these topics. He advises several transdisciplinary research projects and businesses in the construction, real estate, water, energy, defence, rail and road sectors. He is the head of the Portuguese delegation to ISO/TC251 Asset Management and a member of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.

Maria João Falcão Silva

Dr. Maria João Serpa da Lança Falcão da Silva is a renowned civil engineer with a specialized focus on seismic and structural engineering. She completed her PhD and Master's degrees at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), where she examined seismic protection systems and the seismic vulnerability of gas and fuel networks, respectively.

She has been a research associate at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) since 2017 and served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lusophona from 2002 to 2019. Dr. Silva has contributed to significant research projects, amounting to around 29 million Euros in funding, and has been a prolific academic author with around 300 publications to her name.

Her areas of expertise include construction technology, seismic protection of building structures, construction information systems, and construction economics. She is a Senior Member of the Order of Engineers (OE) - Southern Region and an active member of several professional associations related to her field.

Seyed Mohammad Hossein Seyedi Rezvani

Dr. Seyed MHS Rezvani is a civil engineer and he is a Ph.D. candidate at IST @tecnico ULisboa, with a strong focus on urban resilience enhancement using a GIS-based approach.

His publications cover topics such as the Risk-Informed Asset-Centric (RIACT) Urban Resilience Enhancement Process, climate adaptation measures for enhancing urban resilience, and resilience assessment of public buildings, multi-layer mapping of resilience exposure in portuguese cities, and the development of resilience rating systems. He has contributed to the advancement of resilience evaluation systems through automated rational and consistent decision-making simulations.

He has eleven years of experience in diverse international projects encompassing tunnels, roads, bridges, a spectrum of public and private structures, TSE lagoons, landfills, evaporation ponds, and subterranean utility networks, serving as a construction project manager and technical office manager.

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