Our company has held a new Ineco Fórum session focused, on this occasion, on the Resilience Plan for Critical Infrastructures and adaptation to Climate Change. 
 
The president of Ineco, Sergio Vázquez Torrón, was in charge of opening the conference, stressing that "we must be increasingly aware of the need for prevention models that analyse the risks of climate change and its possible impact on infrastructures such as railways and roads from the early stages of planning". He also pointed out that: "adapting to the risks arising from climate change is more efficient than subsequently remedying the damage".
 
The conference included two round tables. The first, moderated by Carmen Rodenas, project manager, featured Ineco professionals Sergio Mora, Elena Curto and Susana Linares, who debated the effects of climate change on infrastructures. In the second, moderated by the Director of Transport, Mobility and Digital Transformation Business, José Ángel Higueras, Antonio Muruais, advisory member of the General Secretariat of Infrastructures of MITMA; Violeta González, head of the technical area of European Funds and Project Financing of Adif; and Alfonso Rueda, head of area 2 of the General Directorate of Planning and Evaluation of the Railway Network of MITMA, analysed the resilience of the railway and road models. 

Juan Pedro Fernández, Director General of Roads of MITMA, was in charge of closing this interesting conference, which you can view in full here, stressing that "in an already mature network, such as the road network, and in a new context with adverse parameters, we must transform ourselves and embrace the concept of sustainability, addressing resilience in a direct way both in the sizing of our infrastructures and in their maintenance. This new approach requires a cultural change in the administrations, which we must now shape by developing planned policies. 

New prevention and mitigation models 

Ineco has a team of experts in the design and adaptation of infrastructures to climate change, incorporating profiles of works construction, project drafting, hygrology, flooding, climate change and carbon footprints, environmental impact, territorial planning, remote sensing, GIS analysis and modelling.

Currently, and with Adif and Adif AV as main clients, the company is developing resilience analyses of transport infrastructures to measure their capacity to adapt to the impacts associated with climate variables in the medium and long term. This approach allows us to offer preventive actions that improve the response capacity of the infrastructure and its services, and therefore its durability, safety and reliability, as well as investment efficiency, basic objectives for any infrastructure manager. These studies are in line with the provisions of the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change 2021-2030 and, at the same time, are a necessary condition, although not sufficient, for receiving investments framed within the recovery and resilience mechanism (MRR). Ineco's teams also establish mitigation strategies to reduce the conditions that favour the misalignment of climate conditions and that result in the reduction of the carbon footprint associated with the operation of transport infrastructures. Ineco is also developing a GIS viewer for Adif to monitor the network in terms of climate impacts in the different study horizons.