IABSE Symposium Guimarães 2019: towards a resilient built environment risk and asset management: report

Abstract

[Excerpt] PREFACE We are living times where the built environment is becoming increasingly complex, due to its progressive ageing, the ever-growing demands of society and the rising environmental requirements, including the effects of more severe and frequent extreme climatic events. The Symposium theme “Towards a Resilient Built Environment – Risk and Asset Management” is highly relevant today when public entities and structural engineers have to make decisions taking into account technical, social, environmental, economic, financial and even political constraints.