Oliver Pritchard

ORCID: 0000-0001-7867-015X
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Research Areas
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Underground infrastructure and sustainability
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Geological Modeling and Analysis
  • Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Education and Professional Development
  • Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Organizational Change and Leadership

Arup Group (United Kingdom)
2017-2025

Arup Group (United States)
2023

Shift (United Kingdom)
2019-2020

University of Sunderland
2017

Cranfield University
2013-2015

Purpose Value chain analyses that help businesses build competitive advantage must include considerations of unpredictable shocks and stressors can create costly business disruptions. Enriching value analysis with system resilience, meaning the ability to recover adapt after adverse events, reduce imposed costs such Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a perspective on resilience as both an expansion complement risk analysis. It examines applications concepts within current...

10.1108/mrr-08-2019-0353 article EN Management Research Review 2020-06-19

This paper undertakes a critical review of the literature concerning mechanisms and impacts soil-related geohazards to UK infrastructure. The country is predicted have drier, hotter summers wetter, warmer winters that in turn will increase magnitude frequency many – predominantly due changes soil moisture. Probabilistic assessment be required given inherent uncertainty assessing chronic hazards. aim this recommend national framework methodology aid management future risks posed by help...

10.1680/ensu.13.00035 article EN Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability 2014-08-01

Clay-related subsidence is Great Britain's (GB) most damaging soil-related geohazard, costing the economy up to £500 million per annum. Soil-related geohazard models based on mineralogy and potential soil moisture deficit (PSMD) derived from historic weather data have been used in risk management since 1990s. United Kingdom Climate Projections (UKCP09) suggest that regions of GB will experience hotter, drier summers warmer, wetter winters through 2050. As a result, PSMD fluctuations are...

10.1007/s10584-015-1486-z article EN cc-by Climatic Change 2015-09-05

Abstract. Unclassified roads comprise 60 % of the road network in United Kingdom (UK). The resilience this locally important is declining. It considered by Institution Civil Engineers to be "at risk" and ranked 26th world. Many factors contribute degradation ultimate failure particular sections. However, several UK local authorities have identified that drought conditions, sections founded upon shrink–swell susceptible clay soils undergo significant deterioration compared with on...

10.5194/nhess-15-2079-2015 article EN cc-by Natural hazards and earth system sciences 2015-09-18

Abstract. Society relies on infrastructure, but as infrastructure systems are often collocated and interdependent, they vulnerable to cascading failures. This study investigated cross-infrastructure societal impacts of burst water mains, with the hypothesis that multi-infrastructure failures triggered by mains more common in sandy soils. When soils burst, pressurised can create subsurface voids abrasive slurries, contributing further Three spatial data investigations, at nested scales, were...

10.5194/nhess-18-2951-2018 article EN cc-by Natural hazards and earth system sciences 2018-11-09

Highways England operates, maintains and improves England’s Strategic Road Network (SRN), which has a diverse asset base. Well-maintained geotechnical assets are key to safe smooth-running SRN, failure of these can lead delays, resulting in significant economic impacts. This paper reviews available remote sensing techniques understand their potential application for proactively managing assets. The integration into established asset-management processes is discussed. conclusions suggest that...

10.1680/jinam.17.00025 article EN Infrastructure Asset Management 2018-06-29

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share the ways in which student and learning support at University Sunderland has embedded matured a new outcome-centered performance model – Quality Model order create an agile evidence-base value, outcome impact evidence. authors will also how, having established fundamental principles regarding value capture our library setting, concepts approaches have been developed applied successfully within context multi-converged service delivery across wider...

10.1108/pmm-08-2017-0034 article EN Performance Measurement and Metrics 2017-12-15

Abstract. Unclassified roads comprise 60% of the road network in United Kingdom (UK). The resilience this locally important is declining. It considered by Institution Civil Engineers to be "at risk" and ranked 26th world. Many factors contribute degradation ultimate failure particular sections. However, several UK local authorities have identified that drought conditions, sections founded upon shrink/swell susceptible clay soils undergo significant deterioration compared with on...

10.5194/nhessd-3-3151-2015 preprint EN cc-by 2015-05-08

The Resilience Shift (RS) was established in 2016 to address the recommendations of Lloyd's Register Foundation's `Foresight review resilience engineering'. initial 5-year programme is funded by Foundation, with Arup as host institution working a diverse range grantees. Its aim inspire and empower shift critical infrastructure thinking practice so that engineered structures will be not only safer but also better. This paper provides summary Shift's aims objectives explains execution....

10.1109/rws47064.2019.8971997 article EN 2019-11-01

Abstract. Society relies on infrastructure, but colocation and interdependencies make infrastructure systems vulnerable to cascading failures. This study investigated cross-infrastructure societal impacts of burst water mains, with the hypotheses that (1) main-triggered failures are more common in sandy soils (2) mixed-methods approaches beneficial than pure data analysis for understanding wide-ranging these events. When mains burst, pressurised can create sub-surface voids abrasive...

10.5194/nhess-2017-433 article EN cc-by 2017-12-12

The Fenlands of East Anglia, England, represent a subtle landscape, where topographic highs rarely exceed 30 m above sea level. However, the fens an almost full sequence Quaternary deposits which, together with islands Cretaceous and Jurassic outcrops, make area geological importance. This feature discusses advantages using 3D visualization coupled high‐resolution topographical data, over traditional 2D techniques, when undertaking analysis landscape. Conclusions suggest that use will result...

10.1111/gto.12105 article EN Geology Today 2015-09-01

Critical transport infrastructure systems play a pivotal role in supporting society through provision of essential connectivity services to end users, alongside enabling economic growth. To be able deal with an increasingly complex and interconnected world uncertain future, critical need made more resilient. Being preserve ordinary as well extraordinary circumstances is the resilience value ultimately delivered customers. This paper argues that successfully implemented, needs...

10.1061/9780784485163.114 article EN 2023-11-14

The Resilience Shift (RS) was established in 2016 to address the recommendations of Lloyd's Register Foundation's 'Foresight review resilience engineering'. initial 5-year programme is funded by Foundation, with Arup as host institution. Its aim inspire and empower a shift critical infrastructure thinking practice so that engineered structures will be not only safer but also better. This paper provides summary Shift’s aims objectives explains execution. Building requires decisionmakers...

10.15626/rea8.04 article EN cc-by-nc 2020-01-14

<p>Climate resilient infrastructure is essential for the safety, wellbeing, sustainability and economic prosperity of cities. An understanding current future climate risks an consideration planning, design, delivery management new existing systems. While there a growing number tools which focus on assessing specific components risk need help bridge gap between science, resilience practitioners, owners policy makers.</p><p>The Climate Risk...

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13365 article EN 2021-03-04
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