3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
weather events – violent winter storms, dramatic spring floods, and prolonged summer
droughts and wildfires. Buildings and infrastructure in the emerging era will need to be far
more resilient to withstand unpredictable and life-threatening weather changes. This will
require a rethinking of buildings and infrastructure. Luxembourg will have to prepare a new
generation of architects, engineers, urban planners, and ecologists in the erection and
deployment of "mobile infrastructure and habitats" that are highly flexible, dismantable,
moveable, and resilient to withstand climate-induced environmental assaults.
The Resiliency Commissioner and agency should be independent and not be subordinated to
other ministries, to allow a broad and unimpaired view on economic, social and environmental
issues. Accumulating evidence and experience indicate that the laterally oriented and
networked sharing and circular economy is more resilient and less prone to catastrophic
disruption, than traditional vertically integrated, tightly linked linear supply chains. Tight linear
supply chains are vulnerable to large disruptions causing catastrophic failures (e.g., Fukushima
and Chernobyl reactors), whereas the laterally dispersed, richly networked features of the
sharing and circular economy increase the likelihood of smaller disruptions that fail gracefully
and can rebound more rapidly. Highly resilient buildings and infrastructure are at the core of
the Third Industrial Revolution transformation.
5.1 Regulatory: Resiliency codes, regulations, and standards need to be established for all the
structures in the built environment. Every building will need to be evaluated for vulnerability
against climate change events. Evaluation criteria will need to factor in the type of construction,
the age of the building, the technical equipment embedded in the building and the purpose of
the building. Vulnerability categories should be defined and the buildings assessed against the
different types of external disruptions. Such evaluation must be adapted to the use for which
the building is intended, since the challenges facing single-family homes differ from public
buildings like hospitals and schools or commercial buildings and shopping malls.
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