A holistic protection portfolio for urban infrastructure

Over the past decades, more and more people have decided to become city dwellers. As a result, the settlement structure had to grow in size and complexity. In fact, it did grow. It still does and so does the interrelation between buildings and infrastructure supply systems. The simultaneous increase of natural and man-made hazards for urban areas leads to a significant need for protection of this habitat and its infrastructure. The present paper gives an insight into the developing process of a benchmark protection portfolio starting from gathering a database of innovative protection products through generation of input using advanced test facilities and numerical methods up to implementation of the derived information into a user-friendly guidance tool. Thus, the presented approach covers all fields of a resilience cycle in a unique way and hence brings forward future urban security.