GCRI · Critical Infrastructure
Mandate and publisher
Critical Infrastructure is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). Its mandate is the science of lifeline reliability and resilience: how essential services depend on one another, how they fail and how they recover. This page sets out who answers for the platform, whom it serves, what it publishes and the limits of its role. The platform is open for information and enquiries.
- STEM methods
- 12
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 9
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 3
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 2
- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
Research on the systems everything else relies on.
The platform exists because lifeline engineering, urban planning and transport are usually studied apart, while their failures arrive together. Its mandate covers dependency analysis, cascade modelling and restoration science across electricity, water, telecommunications, transport, healthcare facilities and the built environment.
Transport and mobility is treated as a technical chapter of this platform, set out on the transport and mobility chapter, rather than as a separate site.
The platform stewards three methods in the STEM Commons, reliability and resilience engineering, sensors, IoT and observation networks and communications and network technology, and keeps their canonical pages current for every platform that applies them. Its work is designed to reach readers through the Reports series, the annual Universe programme and the counterparts that govern and finance the same systems, including Disaster and Crisis Governance at The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and Development Finance Nexus at The Global Risks Alliance (GRA).
Who it serves and what it publishes.
Who takes part
Infrastructure operators, engineers, utilities, asset managers and public planners.
How it works
Network flow, asset dependency analysis and service restoration modelling.
What it publishes
Lifeline dependency map methods and critical-services continuity notes, each with its assumptions and limits.
What the platform does not do.
- It does not regulate, inspect, certify or approve any asset, operator or design.
- It does not replace engineering codes, operator safety cases or the decisions of competent authorities.
- It does not publish security-sensitive details of specific facilities.
- Taking part gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings, and sponsorship confers no editorial control.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
Established.
Critical Infrastructure is an established platform: its scope and methods are published, and its activities, records and services appear here as each one opens. Governance and corrections follow trust, rights and status. The platform’s place in the wider Consortium is described on the Critical Infrastructure home and its scientific scope on the field overview.
Questions and answers.
Is Critical Infrastructure a separate organisation?
Can an operator rely on platform notes for compliance?
Who can I contact?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.