Strategic Engineering Laboratory

Designing for flexibility under deep uncertainty

With threats stemming from climate change, resource scarcity, and geopolitical instability, long-lived systems can become highly vulnerable in the decades to come. We need to change the way we design systems to be ready for these challenges.

Our work exploits the concept of flexibility — enabling systems to adapt, reconfigure, and evolve so they deliver strong economic performance alongside better sustainability and resilience over the long term. We build tools to model uncertainty, analyse risk, support creativity, optimise operations, and inform the decisions of policymakers and business leaders.