Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook - Tapa dura

"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the design, construction, and management of critical infrastructures that underpin economic and socioeconomic activities in urban cities. All major infrastructures are covered: water supply, sewerage, gas, electricity, and telecommunication. The contributors of the handbook have profound knowledge and experience in individual fields, and discuss the key essentials of infrastructure engineering and risk management in a concise manner. A unique aspect of this handbook is the disaster prevention and mitigation section, which is based on a long history of learned lessons dealing with the past disasters in Japan. This is a handy technical and professional book."
―Katsu Goda, University of Bristol, UK

"This is an excellent handbook written by experts in the fields of water pipeline systems, sewerage systems, natural gas distribution systems, electric power systems, and telecommunication systems. The collaborative work by the contributors has produced a reference material that can be of practical use to engineers, practitioners, and stakeholders involved in the construction, maintenance, disaster prevention, and mitigation of urban lifeline systems. ... Senior undergraduate and graduate students will also benefit from this excellent reference material."
―Lessandro Estelito O. Garciano, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

Represents the State of the Art in Urban Lifeline Engineering

Urban lifelines are buried or aboveground network systems used for water, sewerage, gas, power, and telecommunications. Dedicated to preserving the functions of lifeline systems against natural disasters, the Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook is a vital compilation of urban utility management. This text utilizes the input of leading experts who have extensive experience with natural disasters, and provides a better understanding of the technical and legal framework of infrastructure construction and operation.

The book addresses water supply and sewerage, power, gas, telecommunications joint utility corridor lifeline facilities, and other critical civil infrastructure lifelines. It emphasizes the importance of the resilience of lifeline systems against natural disasters in protecting human lives and supporting survivors of disasters as well as in promptly recovering and reconstructing the affected areas. In addition, it also describes the structural damage of nodes and links, as well as the functional damage of the lifeline system from the viewpoint of disaster prevention and mitigation measures.

This valuable work consists of 24 chapters in four sections covering:

• Design and construction of various lifeline facilities
• Maintenance
• Disaster management
• Environmental protection
• Disaster and emergency recovery measures
• Urban planning
• Life cycle costing
• GIS analysis of lifeline systems
• Computerized integrated management systems
• New materials and technologies

The Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook comprehensively describes common issues of lifeline systems, and provides practical information to engineers and industry professionals involved in the planning, construction, and maintenance of lifeline systems.