# Sustainability and Resilience of Engineering Assets
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The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have greatly increased in recent decades due to population growth and extensive urbanization, among other factors. The World Bank estimates that the total cost of cities' and communities' vulnerability to these types of disasters could reach more than USD 300 billion per year by 2030. However, it has been argued that investment to improve the quality and resilience of engineered physical assets that are the backbone of modern societies, such as critical infrastructure, industrial facilities, and buildings, could significantly contribute to more sustainable and prosperous societies. Engineered assets are key to the delivery of essential services, such as transport, food, water, electricity supply, health and safety, etc. Some of these physical assets are integrated into asset systems and national or regional networks, with life cycles of several decades or even centuries. It is, therefore, of great importance that strategies and life cycle decisions, such as those related to short- and long-term capital investment planning, maintenance strategies, operational plans, and asset disposal, lead to the maximization of the value derived from these assets. Moreover, it is essential that the achievement of these goals is sustainable over time. Organizations dealing with engineering assets, both public and private, must, therefore, integrate sustainability and resilience concerns into everyday operations, using budgets that are often restricted, while also meeting demanding performance requirements in risky and uncertain environments. This Special Issue collates a selection of papers reporting the latest research and case studies regarding the trends and emerging strategies used to address these challenges, with contributions discussing how asset management principles and techniques can help to push the boundaries of sophistication and innovation to improve the life cycle management of engineered assets to ensure more sustainable and resilient cities and societies. engineering asset management; sustainable development; resilience; life cycle management; decision making; critical infrastructures; industrial facilities; buildings and built environment; digital transformation; regulations and policy; innovation; emerging risks; disaster risk reduction; management systems +
Footnote †: journal: _Sci_. national, regional, or local asset networks or asset systems; (iii) from a cross-disciplinary standpoint, with an emphasis on innovative approaches used to improve asset value realization. 1. Analysis of inter-related urban asset systems 1.1. Multi-municipality urban infrastructure 1.1. A Systematic Literature Review on Urban Resilience Enabled with Asset and Disaster Risk Management Approaches and GIS-Based Decision Support Tools 2. Measuring Urban Infrastructure Resilience via Pressure-State-Response Framework in Four Chinese Municipalities 1.2. Single-municipality critical infrastructure 3. Spatial Vulnerability Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Based on Fire Risk through GIS Systems -- Case Study: Historic City Center of Guimaraes, Portugal 2. Analysis of asset networks and asset systems 2.1. Building portfolios 2.1. Risk and Resilience Assessment of Lisbon's School Buildings Based on Seismic Scenarios 3. A Sustainability Analysis Based on the LCA-Energy-Carbon Emission Approach in the Building System 2.2. Transportation networks 3. A Novel Approach for Modeling and Evaluating Road Operational Resilience Based on Pressure-State-Response Theory and Dynamic Bayesian Networks 3. A Systematic Review: To Increase Transportation Infrastructure Resilience to Floeding Events 3. Fragility Analysis Based on Damaged Bridges during the 2021 Flood in Germany 2.3. Power generation infrastructure 3.