EC Mandate: Adaptation to climate change use of standards to make key infrastructures more resilient Ab de Buck/ Caroline van Hoek January 2018 1
Contents NEN Infrastructures in a changing climate EC Mandate Adaptation to Climate Change 2
NEN Mission - Non-profit organisation - Bringing interested parties together (companies, governments, NGO s) to make joint and feasible agreements; - Located in Delft, the Netherlands, - 280 employees Standards and Regulations 3
Key figures: ±800 standardization committees ±5000 active committee members Linked to international standardization networks: Europe: CEN, CENELEC, ETSI Global: ISO, IEC 4
Advantages of standards 2016 Netherlands 1.284 European 15.504 Global 17.875 State of the art documents Broadly shared Best Practices Market-acceptance & scaling up Legislative compliance 5
Process of standards development 6
Private - public Self compliance 7
Infrastructures in a changing climate Extremes increase 8
Impacts of Climate Change Standards and Regulations 9
EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change 10
Features of Infrastructures Buildings, energy, communication, transport Key for functioning of society Life times of up to 100 years
Vulnerable to effects of climate change... 12
Standards define infrastructures... Safe construction and operation; Resilience to extreme weather events (storm, rain, snow, ) Referred to in contracts and engineering specifications Eurocodes: safety of construction works In some cases referred to in legislation At present most standards refer to historical climate data 13
Mandate Adaptation to Climate Change Objective: building and maintaining climate resilient infrastructures throughout the EU Focus on three sectors: Transport infrastructure Energy infrastructure Buildings/construction + ICT Organisation: NEN Projectleader/secretariat, German chairman Coordinated by CEN/CENELEC ACC Coordination Group
Mandate - Phase 1 Time frame: 2015-2017 Objective: Identification of relevant European standards Close communication with Technical Committees (TCs) Questionnaire, interviews, workshops, desk-research Pre-selection of 37 standards Final selection of 13 standards 12 standards will be revised One new standard to be developed Note: awareness of ACC varies strongly amongst TCs 15
Mandate Phase 1 key questions from TCs Which climate effects are relevant for our infrastructure? Where to find reliable future climate data? How to deal with the uncertainties in these data? 16
Selected standards Responsible TC Committee # Responsible TC Committee Name Standard Reference # building sector CEN TC 89 / ISO TC 163 Thermal performance of buildings and building components EN ISO 15927-4 CEN TC 156 Ventilation for buildings FprEN 16798-1 and -3; -2 and - CEN TC 350 Sustainability of Construction Works 4EN 16309 CEN TC 371 Project Committee - Energy Performance of Building project group EN ISO 52000-1 CEN TC 350 Sustainability of Construction Works NEW energy sector CEN TC 234 Gas Infrastructure EN 16348 CEN TC 234 Gas Infrastructure EN 15399 CEN TC 282 Installation and equipment for LNG EN 1473 ICT infrastructures CLC TC 215 Electrotechnical aspects of telecommunication equipment EN 50600-2-1 and 50600-2-3 transport sector CEN TC 104 Concrete and related products EN 206 CEN TC 256 Railway applications EN 15723 CLC TC 9X Electrical and electronic applications for railways EN 50125-1, -2 and -3 CEN TC 274 Aircraft ground support equipment EN 1915-1 and -2
Buildings.. 18
Transport infrastructures... Airfield ground support equipment Railway (electronical) applications 19
Energy infrastructure and ICT ICT Datacenters Gas-infrastructrures LNG (Liquified Gas) 20
Mandate - Phase 2 Time frame: 2018-2021 Objective: Revise/develop selected standards of Phase 1 Develop tailored guidance for use of relevant future climate data and dealing with uncertainties 21
Phase 2 - organisation European Commission/ DG Clima CEN/CENELEC NEN Projectleader 2 experts (60 days in total) Coordination-group ACC Representatives of TCs EC, CEN/CENELEC, Other stakeholders Chair: Mr. Mingyi Wang, DIN/GDV (German Association of Insurance companies) Review/revision of 12 standards Development of one new standards Development of tailored guidance to other TCs 22
Phase 2 Revision/development of standards Revision of 12 standards One new standard to be developed - Sustainability of construction works 23
Phase 2 Development of tailored guidance Objective: guidance for other TCs Focus on: Where to find future climate data How to deal with uncertainties Streamlining best practices in selected standards existing tools (CEN Guide 32, EUFIWACC-guide) Written by experts (note: resources limited) Planning: 1st half 2019 24
Summary Infrastructures key priority in EC s strategy on adaptation to climate change Mandate Phase 1: 13 standards have been identified Key issues: awareness, data-availability, uncertainty Mandate Phase 2: Review/revision of 12 standards One standard to be developed Development of guidance for other TCs 25
Standards and Regulations 26