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Aim of the BECCA Wiki

Resilient and durable infrastructure is predicated on its designers and managers having a solid understanding of the conditions that it will face over its useful life. This life is typically from 20 to over 100 years.

Climate change and its resulting impacts have the potential to shorten the life of infrastructure, and the impact on any individual asset will be determined by existing load capacity and how easily it can be adapted to meet changes in environmental conditions.

The BECCA Wiki aims to provide engineers and other professionals with the information required to confidently make efficient and effective decisions today for infrastructure being built tomorrow.  At a time when codes, standards and professional practice mostly do not incorporate climate change impact projections, the Wiki provides:

• a compilation of leading edge best practice in infrastructure adaptation
• a central and accessible location in which to store documents which can be used to undertake climate change adaptation activities
• better and more comprehensive information with which to improve the quality of adaptation analysis
• an opportunity for practitioners to contribute to developing adaptation knowledge.

For more information, see:

• BECCA project history
• BECCA governance
• Becoming a contributor
• Becoming a reviewer
• Sponsors of the BECCA Wiki
• Marketing Plan