1. Ignasi FONTANALS, OptiCits, ifontanals@opticits.com
RESCCUE - RESilience to cope with Climate Change in Urban arEas
a multisectorial approach focusing on water
Ignasi FONTANALS, OptiCits,
The 13th Meeting of the Community of Users on Secure, Safe, Resilient Brussels ,25 – 29 March 2019.

2. 8 M€ 48 months 18 EU H2020 Barcelona Bristol, Lisbon Aquatec–SUEZ
PARTNERS
EU H2020
programme
FUNDING
8 M€
BUDGET
48 months
(05/2016 – 04/2020)
DURATION
Aquatec–SUEZ
Advanced
Solutions
COORDINATOR
RESEARCH SITES
Barcelona
Bristol, Lisbon

3. The RESCCUE research sites
Members of 100 Resilient cities network (program pioneered by Rockefeller Foundation)
Strong commitment with resilience and climate change
CRO (City Resilience Officer) with a clear role in the city strategies to improve urban resilience
Different climate variables and affected services considered in the RESCCUE project
Urban water cycle in the core
Flooding and urban drainage are the links among the three cities
Need to develop RAPs
RAP: Resilient Action Plans

4. RESCCUE APPROACH

5. RESCCUE APPROACH – DETAILED vs HOLISTIC

6. HOW CAN WE BUILD RESILIENCE THROUGH SECTORIAL MODELS?
The example of urban drainage
Traditional tools
1D sewer models allow the analysis of the behavior of a underground pipes
Advanced tools
1D/2D coupled models allow the hydraulic analysis of the urban surfaces where urban activities occur and goods and properties are concentrated
Integrated models
Surface overland flow can be linked to damage and traffic models.
1D/2D model can be linked to marine model (COWAMA)

7. HOW CAN WE BUILD RESILIENCE THROUGH HOLISTIC MODELS?
The HAZUR Tool
Inclusion of urban services and infrastructures
GIS platform for geopositioning critical infrastructures
Definition of interdependencies between services and infrastructures
Definition of impacts and what if analysis
Simulation of the impacts and cascading effects to assess urban resilience
Inclusion of KPIR and management module to operate urban resilience
Applications in several cities
City: Lisboa
Focus: flood resilience
Scope: flood prone areas
Services: 18
Infrastructures: 146
City: Barcelona
Focus: city resilience
Scope: whole urban area
Services: 56
Infrastructures: 786
RAP: Resilient Action Plans
City: Bristol
Focus: tidal and surface floods
Scope: two districts of the city
Services: 23
Infrastructures: 76

8. Holistic method Online tool All types of cities
VALUE PROPOSITION – WEB-TOOL & METHOD
For cities who must face chronic stresses and acute shocks with limited budgets our product is the best online tool to support city decision makers to manage resilience trough cascading effects, stakeholders training, participatory assessment and dynamic integrated scorecard.
Holistic method
Online tool
All types of cities
For cities who must face chronic stresses and acute shocks with limited budgets our product is the first city-resilience-oriented online tool that provides holistic city cross-management methodologies based on cascade effects and systemic simulation to go through the whole process of integrating resilience concepts into operations of municipal services and infrastructures.
The tool can be used in all types of cities (Small-Medium and Large) and its is complemented by an online coursez that external consultants or internal city responsible for the HAZUR implementation can take.

9. UNDERSTANDING INTERDEPENDENCIES & CASCADING EFFECTS IN CITY OPERATIONS AS FOUNDATION FOR COLABORATION, DATA SHARING FOR SIMULATION , COST REDUCTION …
COST REDUCTION
BETTER COORDINATION
KICK STARTER FOR DATA SHARING FOR TECH
KICK STARTER FOR CITY STANDARS ADOPTION AND MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORKS

10. BRISTOL Strategic and operational alignment… HAZUR
Vision & Strategy
Strategic / Leadership Decision Making
HAZUR
Finance
Pan-City, systemic
Support to “City Office”
Economic Development
‘Place’
Tactical / Operational
Hiways
England
Public
Flood Risk
Models
Bristol
Transport HIRAM
Private
Environment Agency
Bristol
Waste
Managing tensions of data ownership; system ownership; operational processes; etc.
Bristol
Water
Wessex
Water

11. LISBOA
Cascading Effects improvement & multi-scale, global framework…

12. BARCELONA
Holistically (systemic) vision for technical departments ... with common language
Responders
Players
Donor Service
Receiver Service
Recovery Time
Redundancy

13. HAZUR in RESCCUE Project RESCCUE 2 new modules created Strategies
Use of HAZUR Assessment module
HAZUR report in the 3 cities
HAZUR implementators support
AQUATEC, HIDRA , UDNA. UEXE
Resilience training for the consortium partners
HAZUR existing functionalities to be improved
2 new modules created
Strategies
Climate Change
Provide a practical & innovative tool & business model validated by the market
In progress
BRISTOL
City: 428k inh
In progress
LISBON
City: 530k inh
In progress
BARCELONA
City: 1,5 Millions inh

14. EMPOWERING CITY TECHNICIANS AND PROFESIONALS WW WITH TRAINING
SUKHUMVIT (BANGKOK)
CANNES
SAN ANTONIO
VICHY
VICHENZZA
SAN SEBASTIAN

15. Aquatec - SUEZ Advanced Solutions marc.velasco@suez.com