Bottom-Up Infrastructure

水、交通和能源等基础设施系统对英国社会和经济至关重要。这些系统在未来能够继续有效运作是非常重要的，但由于气候变化、社会变化和经济变化，很难预测它们将需要在何种条件下运作。因此，基础设施需要具有适应性和弹性，能够从未来发生的任何极端事件和一般趋势中恢复过来。为了实现这一目标，基础设施可能会与今天的情况大不相同。我们可能会有更多的可再生能源，更多的循环水，更多的公共交通，步行和骑自行车，我们的城市可能会因此看起来和运行完全不同。为未来设计基础设施是一项非常复杂的任务，需要考虑到当地社区和日常生活的价值观、经验和要求。工程师和专家擅长为明确界定的问题制定技术解决方案，但他们在理解当地社区的需求和期望方面并不成功。工程师有很好的方法来考虑物理，环境和经济因素，但他们需要新的工具，以便能够更好地理解和考虑设计中的社会因素。当地社区在适应气候变化和未来其他不确定事件方面也将发挥重要作用，因此当地社区和工程师必须共同决定未来基础设施设计的重要性。该奖学金将帮助Sarah Bell博士学习当地社区如何参与基础设施决策的良好范例。她的研究团队将与社区和工程师合作，定义方法和工具，以便更好地将社区需求和想法融入基础设施设计。这些工具和方法可能包括检查表或调查，以快速了解社区需要什么，他们希望为未来，计算器，以帮助工程师与社区合作，以快速计算环境影响和成本的不同想法的基础设施，和风险评估，以了解可能发生的问题，如果社区不参与工程设计和可能的好处，如果他们是。

Infrastructure systems such as water, transport and energy are vital to British society and the economy. It is very important that these systems are able to continue to function effectively in the future, but it is difficult to predict the conditions that they will need to operate under because of climate change, social change and economic changes. For this reason infrastructure needs to be adaptable and resilient, able to bounce back from whatever extreme events and general trends occur in the future. In order to achieve this infrastructure may look quite different to how it does today. We may have more renewable energy, more recycled water, and more public transport, walking and cycling, and our cities could look and operate quite differently as a result. Designing infrastructure for the future is a very complex task that needs to take into account the values, experiences and requirements of local communities and everyday people. Engineers and experts are good at developing technical solutions to well defined problems, but they have not been as successful at understanding the needs and expectations of local communities. Engineers have good methods for taking into account physical, enviromental and economic factors, but they need new tools to be able to better understand and account for social factors in their designs. Local communities will also have important roles to play in adapting to climate change and other uncertain events in the future, so it is important that local communities and engineers come together to decide what is important in designing future infrastructure. This fellowship will help Dr Sarah Bell to learn from good examples of how local communities can be involved in infrastructure decisions. Her research team will work with communities and engineers to define methods and tools to allow for better integration of community needs and ideas into infrastructure design. These tools and methods might include checklists or surveys to quickly understand what communities need and what they want for the future, calculators to help engineers working with communities to quickly calculate the environmental impacts and costs of different ideas for infrastructure, and risk assessments to understand the problems that might occur if communities are not involved in engineering design and the benefits that might be possible if they are.