The unprecedented number of changes in societal preferences, technological capabilities and environmental conditions that our society is undergoing, presents great uncertainty around the needs that will have to be addressed in the future. Flexible infrastructure and construction, i.e., assets designed to be easily adaptable to cope with a modified set of needs, can help to minimize the risk of future uncertainty by postponing critical decisions to a later moment when more information is available. The main contributions of my research in this area include the development of:

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• Flexible transport corridors and parking garages to cope with the uncertainty of future mobility (e.g., the spread of electric and autonomous vehicles). Reference publications: Elvarsson et al., 2020; Eberle, 2020; Schumacher, 2020; Sutter, 2020; Studer, 2019; Fiorot, 2019; Kremer, 2019; Eberle and Hofmann, 2019; Elvarsson, 2018; Duss, 2018; Schärer, 2018.

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• Flexible hospitals and clinics, to cope with the uncertainty of the quantity and type of medical treatment to be provided. Reference publications: Esders et al., 2019.

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• Flexible integration of renewable energy systems into new buildings, to cope with the uncertainty of the price and demand for energy and technological evolution. Reference publications: Martani et al., 2014; Martani et al., 2016.

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• Flexible investments in real estate portfolios to cope with the uncertainty of future demand. Reference publications: Fiorot, 2020; Calen, 2020; Schärer, 2019; Martani et al., 2018; Leontaris, 2018; Cattarinussi, 2016.