Overview
The ETI Natural Hazards Project is an initiative funded by
the Energy Technologies Institute and delivered by EDF Energy, the Met Office
and Mott Macdonald. Designed as a three-phase project, the final phase is now
complete and captures the knowledge and learning from the project in a way that
makes it accessible to engineers with responsibility for new or existing high
value energy infrastructure assets.
The project has produced a set of technical volumes
summarising the state of the art on
natural hazard characterisation for a variety of natural hazards, including:
- Extreme high and low air temperature
- Extreme wind
- Extreme rainfall
- River flooding
- Coastal flooding
- Seismic, volcanic and geological hazards
- Hail
- Lightning
- Space weather
- Marine biological fouling
- Hazard combinations
Technical volumes for the natural hazards listed above are
supported by five case studies from around the UK to illustrate how the state
of the art methodology can be applied at specific sites. The outputs of the
project are focused at end-users from the energy industry, but could also be of
interest to infrastructure owners, operators, asset managers, developers,
investors, regulators and insurers across a wide range of industries including
transport, the built environment, emergency planning and climate resilience.
The launch event will introduce the motivation behind the
project, what has been delivered and how end-users can benefit from the
outputs.
Following the launch, all of the technical volumes and case
studies will be made available to industry, academia and individuals from the
websites of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of
Chemical Engineers; and on the ETI’s website in the knowledge zone
This event is free
and open to all.