New survey to assess how national infrastructure systems can be made more resilient

Global construction professionals are being urged to take part in the new Global Infrastructure Resilience Survey.

International engineering federation FIDIC has partnered with the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) and Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) on the new Global Infrastructure Resilience Survey (GIRS), a global study that will gather perspectives from infrastructure professionals worldwide and deliver unprecedented insights into infrastructure resilience across regions, sectors and institutional structures.

The survey will help assess how national infrastructure systems can better withstand disasters, adapt to changing risks and serve communities when they need it most. It will also seek to identify best practices in infrastructure resilience, reveal regional differences in management approaches and guide future policy decisions.

The findings will be published in the second edition of CDRI’s Report on Global Infrastructure Resilience, becoming a vital resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers worldwide.

This comprehensive survey will gather insights from professionals with hands-on experience in infrastructure, whether they might be designing it, building it, financing it, managing it, or creating policies for it.

The survey’s developers are looking for participation from engineers, architects and urban planners, government stakeholders and policy experts, academics and researchers and private sector innovators. The short, multiple-choice survey, which takes just ten minutes to complete, will make a huge contribution to the sector’s collective understanding of how countries and sectors are doing on implementing climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure. It will also help to identify best practices and management approaches to guide future policy decisions, strengthening resilient infrastructure worldwide.

ICSI and CDRI are seeking input from professionals who understand the realities of infrastructure resilience in their country and to ensure the widest possible coverage, the survey can also be taken in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. All responses to the survey will remain anonymous and participants will be contributing to a global movement to build resilience to climate risks and disasters.

Click here to take part in the Global Infrastructure Resilience Survey.