Advanced Technologies for Climate Resilient Infrastructures
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban resilience; disaster management; transportation sysytem
Interests: urban planning; sustainable development; energy consumption; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the growing frequency and intensity of climate-related hazards—such as floods, heatwaves, storms, and sea-level rise—have posed increasing challenges to the safety, durability, and functionality of urban infrastructure systems. As these climate risks intensify, it will become more urgent to develop and deploy advanced technologies that enhance the climate resilience of our infrastructure networks.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest research and practical developments related to the use of advanced technologies in designing, monitoring, and managing climate-resilient infrastructures. We welcome contributions that explore innovative methods and tools that help infrastructure systems withstand, adapt to, and recover from extreme weather events and long-term climate stressors.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Intelligent sensing and monitoring: Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks, and real-time data systems for infrastructure risk detection and early warning.
- Digital technologies for resilience: Applications of digital twins, building information modeling (BIM), and geographic information systems (GIS) in climate adaptation planning and asset management.
- AI techniques for resilience: Machine learning, computer vision, and large language models for failure detection, climate risk assessment, and decision support.
- Optimization for resilience management: Operations research and optimization techniques for planning, resource deployment, and recovery strategies in climate-resilient infrastructure systems.
- Smart materials and adaptive structures: The use of responsive or sustainable materials and adaptive structures that improve durability, thermal performance, or flood resistance.
- Infrastructure system modeling and assessment: Modeling and evaluation of climate risks affecting individual or interdependent infrastructure systems (e.g., transport, water, energy), under single- or multiple-hazard scenarios.
- Urban sustainability and climate-resilient planning: Integrating climate adaptation strategies into urban planning and design (e.g., buildings, transportation, and land use) to support long-term sustainability goals and enhance city-scale resilience.
- Case studies and real-world applications: Demonstrations of the successful implementation of technologies in infrastructure resilience projects.
We invite original research papers, review articles, and technical notes that showcase emerging ideas, robust methods, and practical insights. Contributions from interdisciplinary teams combining engineering, data science, urban planning, and environmental studies are especially encouraged. All submissions will undergo thorough peer review to ensure high scientific and practical relevance. We hope that this Special Issue will serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to share solutions that will help make infrastructure systems smarter, stronger, and more adaptable in the face of climate change.
Dr. Renfei He
Dr. Yan Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent sensing and monitoring
- digital technologies for resilience
- AI techniques for resilience
- optimization for resilience management
- smart materials and adaptive structures
- infrastructure system modeling and assessment
- urban sustainability and climate-resilient planning
- case studies and real-world applications
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