ARCC Coordination Network

The Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate Coordination Network (ARCC CN) exists to enhance the cooperative development and dissemination of research between and beyond a portfolio of EPSRC-funded research projects exploring the impacts and potential adaptation strategies of climate change and other drivers of change in UK buildings and infrastructure systems.

Funded by the EPSRC, this integrating network was established in January 2009 to:

  • facilitate collaboration between research projects and with the broader research community;
  • promote stakeholder and researcher participation;
  • maximise the potential benefits of the research to all end users through broadening engagement and targeted dissemination;
  • facilitate the further exploration of related knowledge and knowledge gaps.

The Network involves a rolling suite of research projects with current timelines stretching out to 2017. A summary of the aims of the projects (pdf, 200 KB) and the research timelines are available.

Recognising that adapting to climate change can not be undertaken without consideration of other technological, social and environmental drivers of change, the network has been expanded recently to include on-going projects from the Sustainable Urban Environment programme and projects arising from an EPSRC sandpit on Achieving adaptable assets: sustainable integrated infrastructure.

  • SUE3 projects (CLUES, SECURE, STEP-CHANGE and RETROFIT) investigate ways of improving sustainability in the urban environment.
  • Projects arising from the 2010 Achieving adaptable assets sandpit focus on if, when and how to integrate utilities in a sustainable and resilient manner (Land of the MUSCOs, Undermining Infrastructure, All in One, Shock (not) Horror and TUCP).
  • ARCoES, ARIES and RESNET address the challenges faced by the energy sector in adapting to climate change and are funded by the EPSRC as part of their contribution to the RCUK Energy Programme.
  • ITRC began in 2011 and is taking a cross-sectoral approach to understanding national infrastructure performance under a range of possible futures.
  • ARCADIA, ARCC-Water, BIOPICCC, DeDeRHECC, FUTURENET and SNACC contribute to the Living with Environment Change programme – a ten-year programme to make infrastructure, the built environment and transport systems resilient to environmental change, less carbon intensive and more socially acceptable.
  • COPSE, DOWNPIPE, PROMETHEUS, PROCLIMATION and Low Carbon Futures began 2008 in response to an EPSRC call on the use of probabilistic climate scenarios in adaptation decisions within the building sector.
  • CREW was funded in 2008 as a result of the EPSRC IDEAS factory call for coping with extreme weather events.
  • LUCID and SCORCHIO started in 2007 in response to an EPSRC call for climate change research into the urban environment.