As heat waves become longer and more common, communities have to prepare—and prepare to fail
As England, Spain and huge swaths of the U.S. deal with record-shattering high temperatures, the time has come to stop looking at heat and heat waves as temporary inconveniences. As the climate warms, heat waves have become longer, more frequent and more deadly, at their worst killing thousands of people.
The failure of infrastructures can take many different forms. It’s easy to envision failure of infrastructure as catastrophic destruction, for example, a road washed away by a flood or a neighborhood razed to the ground by a wildfire. While it’s important to plan for and mitigate catastrophic failures, heat can have a much more subtle set of effects. In general, as temperatures rise, infrastructure failures increase.
So, let’s design with failure in mind. In doing so we’ll open up new design opportunities that allow infrastructures to gracefully fail while mitigating death and economic disruption. Safe-to-fail design is the balancing of community, environment, and infrastructural capabilities towards failing gracefully. We’re seeing the success of safe-to-fail systems already.
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