Critical infrastructure preservation for a harder operating environment.
Preservation 2 tracks the shift from maintaining buildings as objects to preserving infrastructure as operational capacity under modern physical, environmental, technological, and adversarial stress.
Infrastructure risk, translated into preservation decisions.
Preservation 2 tracks credible threats, infrastructure failures, and hardening strategies across energy, grid, public-sector, industrial, data-center, and defense environments.
Recent resilience topics
Why Did One in Five School Districts Cancel Classes Over Their Buildings?
A September 2026 GAO report finds 19 percent of districts canceled school over facility failures in 2024-25. What happened, why it matters, and what to ask.
Why Are Billions in Disaster Mitigation Grants Still Unawarded?
A September 2026 GAO report finds 700 BRIC mitigation subapplications worth about $2.2 billion stalled. What happened, why it matters locally, and what to ask.
What Do Hawaii's 2026 Hurricane Outages Ask of Local Officials?
Hurricanes Lala and Lowell cut power to most of Hawaii's electric customers in August and September 2026. What failed, why water went with it, and what to ask.
Personnel Screening: The Overlooked Layer
The people who hold badges, credentials and system access are part of the perimeter. Background screening is a personnel-risk control with the same logic as fencing or CIP-014 compliance.
CIP-014-4 Is Approved. The Clock That Matters Is Not 2028.
Approved September 10, 2026 and effective October 1, 2028. The compliance date is later than the date the work has to start.
BESS Sites Need More Than a Fence Line
Battery energy storage projects are infrastructure assets. Site security should account for thermal exposure, responder access, standoff, ballistic risk, and cascading-loss scenarios.
NERC CIP-014 Turns Physical Security Into an Executive Risk Question
CIP-014 is not a product checklist. It forces owners to identify critical stations and substations, assess threats, and implement physical-security plans appropriate to system impact.
Turn infrastructure concern into an executable protection path.
Use Preservation 2 to frame the asset, the consequence, the threat environment, and the retrofit options before a project becomes harder and more expensive to change.