Put climate resilience at the centre of infrastructure thinking with acra.
Acra is a bespoke software-driven service that assesses the vulnerabilities and opportunities for planned and existing infrastructure in the context of a changing climate.
Create opportunity in a changing climate
Employ a system of systems approach
Embed climate resilience into early project decisions and design
Identify opportunities for co-investment
Optimise adaptation strategies and financial planning
Reduce ongoing and unexpected maintenance
A changing environment
Understand tomorrow to
act today
Climate-related hazards are increasingly highlighting the need for climate-adaptive and resilient infrastructure. Over the next 50 years, the UK is predicted to face higher temperatures, extreme rainfall, droughts and rising sea levels amongst other unpredictable weather events.
The UK’s transport corridors, energy networks, and building developments will need to be designed and operated in a way that cope with the changing nature of our climate. And as communities, investors and business demand more proactive long-term thinking, the business case for climate-resilient planning grows.
By bringing together GIS mapping, projected climate information, and asset data, acra allows for both holistic oversight of entire infrastructure networks, and granular insights pinpointed to a local scale.
By taking a deeper, more comprehensive approach to understanding future risk, acra enables you to be better prepared for climate hazards and build resilience into the investment lifecycle of your infrastructure assets and projects.
Planning with acra
Understand estimated climate developments across the UK and how those developments will affect your current and planned infrastructure.
Identify climate vulnerabilities within existing assets and planned infrastructure like road or train networks thereby optimising adaptation strategies and financial planning.
Reduce the need for ongoing and unexpected maintenance through proactive adaptation.
Identify opportunities for co-investment by recognising key interdependencies.
Data-driven insights offer reassurance for your decision making and justification to ensure stakeholder agreement.
Turn resilience into opportunity and lead the way to a more climate resilient and carbon conscious future.
Bespoke outputs for your needs
Acra was built in collaboration with the people who use it. Flexible outputs integrate seamlessly into your workflow and provide varying degrees of detail to suit your stakeholders’ needs.
CLARIFYING COMPLEXITY
Dynamic GIS mapping allow you to visualise the impact of complex weather events with ease. Interactive layers allow for widespread internal understanding and engagement of data modelling.
EXPERT SUPPORT
Software outputs are fully supported by our expert consultancy service. Whether you interact directly with the data and draw your own conclusions, or work in collaboration with our consultants – the choice is yours.
A WIDE-RANGING APPROACH
Acra takes into account a diverse set of climate parameters, including lesser-discussed hazards like lightning and fog, on both national and local scales, pinpointed to a 2.2km radius.
FLEXIBLE OUTPUTS
GIS mapping outputs are supported by in-depth reporting from our consultancy team. From high-level RAG ratings and “resilience opportunity areas”, to granular insights that transform data into localised solutions.
Our clients
Midlands Connect
“Accelar’s collaborative approach, alongside their environmental expertise, is playing an important part in ensuring sustainability and environmental considerations play a key role in shaping the next iteration of our regional transport strategy and the programme of interventions within this.”
West Midlands Combined Authority
“This project has given the WMCA the opportunity to prioritise and accelerate our work on climate change adaptation, as well as raise awareness of its importance across the organisation. We are now able to embark on a structured plan of action that includes considering with greater confidence how climate risks affect the authority’s projects and activities, and what we can do to address them.”
