System of Systems: Adapting Lessons from Other Industries for AECO

Building Innovation 2026: System of Systems: Adapting Lessons from Other Industries for AECO The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events—including flooding, wildfires, extreme heat, and severe storms—pose growing threats to the safety, reliability, and longevity of transportation infrastructure across the United States. Resilience has therefore become a defining concept for modern infrastructure management, encompassing the ability to anticipate, withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruptive events. This presentation provides a comprehensive state-of-practice review of resilience strategies for four key categories of transportation assets: pavement structures, bridge structures, geotechnical assets, and drainage infrastructure. Pivoting forward from the state of practice, this presentation also will review nascent standards and frameworks for designing, testing, managing, and maintaining AI-enabled systems from transportation and other industries, and examine how they will likely influence the development of similar standards and methods for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industries. In the case of AI-enabled design and construction tools and building systems, the AECO industries can benefit from lessons learned in aerospace, defense, and automotive industries that are already further along in the development of AI-enabled systems standards, methods, and management processes for project development, validation, and operations.