- The project focuses on preventing environmental risks in road and railway infrastructure networks across the Atlantic Area. Led by Domingo Pérez, Director of Innovation at Grupo Azvi, Azvi researchers are part of the SIRMA platform, together with other European entities.
- The Azvi research team, directed by Domingo Pérez, along with partners from Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Spain, is participating in SIRMA – Strengthening Infrastructure Risk Management in the Atlantic Area. This solid platform aims to anticipate, manage, and mitigate environmental risks affecting road and railway infrastructure networks in the Atlantic region.
Launched in April 2019 and now in its final year of implementation, the project seeks to significantly improve the resilience of these infrastructures, particularly against climate change-related effects. To this end, it has received two million euros in funding from the INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme.
Azvi’s experts in road maintenance and railway line conservation have contributed to developing a systematic risk-based prevention and management methodology, participating in the creation of a database of measures for mitigating the most relevant climate change impacts on transport infrastructure, including their effects and costs. The long-term goal is to reduce the risks posed by extreme climate events, especially floods and wildfires, to transport infrastructure.
In its latest phase, SIRMA has focused on applying its results to road and rail networks in Portugal and Ireland, where climate change has been causing flooding and disrupting infrastructure use.
The project involves academic collaboration with the Universities of Minho, Dublin, Vigo, Nantes, Surrey, and Birmingham, as well as participation from private companies such as Azvi, Irish Rail, and Infraestruturas de Portugal.
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