SKCC: Sustaining Knowledge for a Changing Climate

预计气候变化将对建筑物、基础设施和公用事业产生重大影响。EPSRC资助的名为“为不断变化的气候建立知识”（BKCC）的研究计划在过去三年中提高了对气候变化对城市排水，工程斜坡，电力供应行业，航空业，历史建筑和基础设施以及更广泛的城市环境的影响的认识。它还为影响评估研究制定了专门的气候和社会经济情景。在BKCC方案未涉及的领域以及在更系统地审查适应气候变化备选方案的设计和执行方面，仍然存在重大的研究挑战。作为BKCC方案的一部分，来自工业界和政府的一个热情的最终用户团体已经聚集在一起，并在设计、监测和传播研究成果方面发挥了积极作用。它将综合所有BKCC项目的结果，并在一份高质量的报告中提出，该报告将广泛分发给行业和面向最终用户的高知名度会议。它将继续研究工业界广泛感兴趣的领域，特别是在BKCC期间只得到有限注意的问题。具体而言，它将通过范围界定和试点研究、讲习班和出版物，在以下方面取得进展：（一）在规划和管理建筑环境和基础设施时使用概率性气候情景;（二）可在一系列部门受益的适应备选方案;（三）现有和新建筑存量的影响和适应;（四）整合适应和解决方案，以减少温室气体排放。最后，SKCC将通过利益攸关方和研究人员研讨会，为今后研究气候变化对人造环境和基础设施的影响以及制定适应解决方案制定一项连贯一致的用户主导计划。这将为气候影响和适应领域的重大新研究提案做好准备。

Climate change is projected to have a significant impact upon buildings, infrastructure and utilities. The EPSRC funded programme of research called Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate (BKCC) has over the last three years advanced knowledge of the impacts of climate change on urban drainage, engineered slopes, the electricity supply industry, the aviation industry, historic buildings and infrastructure and the urban environment more generally. It has also developed specialised climate and socio-economic scenarios for impacts assessment studies. Substantial research challenges remain in areas not addressed in the BKCC programme and in more systematic examination of the design and implementation of options for adaptation to climate change. An enthusiastic group of end users from industry and government has been assembled as part of the BKCC programme and have played an active role in the design, monitoring and dissemination of the research results.The Sustaining Knowledge for a Changing Climate will build upon the progress that has been made in BKCC and sustain the community of researchers and end users that has been assembled during BKCC. It will synthesise the results from all of the BKCC projects and present them in a high quality report that will be distributed widely to industry and at a high profile conference aimed at end users. It will continue research in areas of broad interest to industry particularly on problems that only received limited attention during BKCC. Specifically it will, through scoping and pilot studies, work shops and publications progress thinking on (i) use of probabilistic climate scenarios in planning and managing the built environment and infrastructure; (ii) adaptation options that can be beneficial in a range of sectors; (iii) impacts and adaptation in existing and new building stock and (iv) integrating adaptation and solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, SKCC will, through stakeholder and researcher workshops develop a coherent user-led plan for future research into the impacts of climate change on the built environment and infrastructure and development of adaptation solutions. This will prepare for major new research proposals in the field of climate impacts and adaptation.