Redefining Infrastructure for Thriving Communities, Businesses, and Ecosystems

Advancing the integration of natural and conventional infrastructure systems to strengthen long term resilience to flooding, sea level rise, drought, and other disruptions.

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Redefining Infrastructure for Thriving Communities, Businesses, and Ecosystems

Empowering communities and businesses to discover wise infrastructure solutions that maximize social, economic, and environmental benefits.

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Redefining Infrastructure for Thriving Communities, Businesses, and Ecosystems

Supporting informed decision making through interdisciplinary expertise, cutting edge tools and techniques, and collaborative partnerships.

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IRIS Areas of Focus

Restoring Natural Infrastructure

Engineering with nature to provide valuable functions and services such as improved water quality and quantity, flood reduction, erosion protection, and habitat.

Integrated Infrastructure Systems

Fully uniting built and natural infrastructure systems to prepare for extreme weather, climate hazards, and changing land and ocean conditions.

Tools and Techniques

Social-technical-environmental system modeling, communicating risks, envisioning future scenarios, and evaluating benefits to support planning and sound decisions.

Thriving Communities

Collaborating to discover solutions that enhance health, security, and quality of life over the long term.

FEATURED PROJECTS

Analysis of Streamflow Trends in the Southeast U.S.

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The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure provides a a meeting ground and network for discovering integrated infrastructure solutions (nature-based and conventional) that work together build societal resilience to floods, droughts, sea level rise, eutrophication and other disruptions.

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