Course Description
Rebuilding what stood before means rebuilding what failed. Build back better is the principle that recovery is the moment to raise standards — energy efficiency, redundancy, decentralisation, protection of critical elements — and it is embedded in the assessments and financing frameworks that govern reconstruction.
This programme addresses resilient infrastructure design in reconstruction. Participants learn the build back better principle and how donors apply it, resilience concepts and redundancy, designing for threat and disruption, energy efficiency in reconstruction, decentralisation and modularity, protection of critical elements, alignment with EU standards, and how resilience is justified in a project's economic case.
What you will achieve
By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
- Explain build back better and how financing frameworks apply it
- Apply resilience concepts to infrastructure design
- Design for threat, disruption and rapid restoration
- Apply redundancy and decentralisation
- Integrate energy efficiency into reconstruction
- Protect critical elements and reduce single points of failure
- Align reconstruction with EU standards and accession requirements
- Justify resilience investment in the economic case
How the course is delivered
The programme combines resilience engineering with design exercises on realistic reconstruction scenarios. Participants apply redundancy, decentralisation and protection concepts, and build the economic justification for resilience measures.
The programme reflects that build back better is not aspiration but a requirement embedded in recovery financing, and that resilience must be defensible in cost terms.
Designed for
This programme is designed for:
- Design and civil engineers
- Infrastructure planners
- Local authority technical staff
- Specialists preparing reconstruction projects
- Anyone designing infrastructure for recovery
Daily programme
- The build back better principle
- How assessments and financing apply it
- Resilience concepts
- Learning from what failed
- Designing for threat and disruption
- Redundancy and alternative supply
- Rapid restoration by design
- Modularity and standardisation
- Energy efficiency in reconstruction
- Decentralised systems
- Protection of critical elements
- Single points of failure
- Alignment with EU standards
- Accession requirements and reconstruction
- Economic justification of resilience
- Design workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
