Contingency planning

Contingency planning is increasingly important to ensure a well protected and resilient infrastructure is in place. However, with growing complexities and interdependencies spread across sectors and nation states, the relationships between stakeholders is often disjointed and the ownership of risk unclear.

The national infrastructure includes those facilities, systems, sites and networks necessary for the functioning of the country and the delivery of the essential services upon which daily life in Great Britain depends.

Many regulatory and strategic frameworks now require modelling of the interconnectivity and dependencies of National Infrastructure against risk (for example, through natural hazards or terrorist threat), which should also be supported by coordinated, multi agency sharing of information.

Our geographic data can underpin the sharing of information and provide an independent spatial analysis, looking at the systematic modelling and interoperability of assets, it can:

enable real time visualisation and sharing of information in a consistent and integrated way;
minimise the cost of large scale intervention and reconstruction by managing risk and identifying the right solutions whether in planning for, or responding to, an emergency;
provide a common understanding based on consistent information and knowledge of the interoperability, interdependency of critical assets
reduce costs and deliver cross-government or industry efficiencies