This paper outlines a project to make the computational risk and resilience engines developed for the AdaptWater project available in the public domain and with a dynamic structure allowing the analysis of other physical assets.

AdaptWater is a big-data, cloud computing solution developed by and for Australian water utilities with co-funding from the Federal Government.  The software, housed on cloud computers, is able to execute 10 million risk computations per minute combining historical weather maps for hazards, climate change projections, engineering and financial data for individual geo-located assets. The system has been well received by peer reviewers and is being rolled out across hundreds of thousands of assets in the water sector.

There has been considerable interest in applying the software to other asset classes, for example in the power sector, roads, communications and government assets.  There has also been interest in using the system for research into the impacts of climate change in the built environment.

Inspired by this interest, the paper will cover the development of the Open Resilience project that intends to make the Resilience Engaging software and cloud servers freely available on the internet, inviting a new community of users to both use and expand the application of the software and computational capacity.

The paper will cover the architecture of the new system, the different expertise required to build new archetypes and the emphasis on public sharing of data and results.