About the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Guideline (CRIG)
The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Guideline provides nationally relevant, collaboratively developed, industry best practice guidance on the integration of climate risk and resilience into asset and financial management planning.
The Guideline details a range of climate hazards including higher temperatures, heatwave, frost, hail, changes in rainfall, increased storm and cyclonic intensity flooding, coastal and riverine erosion, drought, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and bushfire weather.
Detailed climate impacts and resilience options are provided for over 200 assets in buildings, bridges, roads, footpaths, green infrastructure, water and waste water assets, storm water assets, and coastal assets. In addition, details are given for the most common infrastructure materials including concrete, steel, PVC, wood, bitumen, glass and fibre reinforced polymers (FRP).
The Guideline describes the processes of organisational change and building the business case for including climate change into strategic plans, and then takes an asset lifecycle approach to describe how to update asset and financial management plans and financial reporting. It is supported by extensive additional resources including global and Australian case studies, examples, drawings, images, templates, a risk and resilience decision tree, templates, tools, references and active links for further information.
This Manual is supported by an online training course with an industry recognised micro-credential.
How to access the CRIG?
The CRIG can be accessed via the IPWEA Ebooks+ platform.