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Nov 2, 2022

November 2, 2022 02/11/2022 – Innovative sensors for monitoring climate change and extreme events, seismic networks to record earthquakes even of low magnitude in real time and digital information dashboards to inform citizens and PA and strengthen the resilience of cities. These are some of the results of the ARCH 2020 project [1], funded by the Horizon 2020 Program, coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute and created, for the Italian part, by ENEA, INGV, the Municipality and the University of Camerino. The project co-created and tested these results on four pilot cases: Camerino (Macerata), whose historic center was severely damaged by the central Italian earthquake of 30 October 2016, Bratislava (Slovakia), Hamburg (Germany) and Valencia (Spain) whose historic areas are threatened by climate change and extreme events related to them [2]. “As part of the project, we took the opportunity of the digital transition of PA and local authorities to co-create analysis / intelligence platforms and data-based services”, explains Sonia Giovinazzi, ENEA researcher of the Critical Infrastructure Analysis and Protection Laboratory and contact person of the Agency in the project. “In this way – she adds – we have strengthened the capacity of PAs, managers of historic areas and local communities of know, assess and respond to extreme climatic events and other natural hazards and to build a shared and proactive attitude of resilience to mitigate the impacts induced by such dangers, avoiding extreme consequences and disasters and increasing citizens’ awareness “. Specifically, as part of the project they were acquired data from sensors last generation, from analysis carried out in situ and in the laboratory, from polls administered to the population and public administrations. The collected data were then transformed into useful information and knowledge, easily usable through digital dashboards to support the decisions of the Public Administrations. Practical and easy to use, dashboards deliver in real time the trend of data and key performance indicators, such as, for example, the danger of the territorythe vulnerability of the builtthe tangible and intangible values ​​of monumental assets and works of art historical areas, allowing to move from monitoring to action with informed and conscious decisions on prevention and mitigation strategies, risk and emergency management and post-disaster resilient reconstruction. “For the city ​​of Camerino ENEA has developed dashboards, or dashboards, to support the planning of building structural interventions assuming possible future earthquakes of different intensity and the impact scenarios that could result before and after the implementation of resilience strategies. The dashboards allow Public Administrations and the population to appreciate the benefits that such interventions could bring in avoiding damage to buildings, consequences on populations and in preserving the functionality, traditions and works of art of historic centers, of inestimable value but extremely vulnerable ”, highlights Maria Luisa Villani, ENEA researcher at the Laboratory of Analysis and Protection of Critical Infrastructures. “The data collected by the ENEA, INGV and UNICAM sensors were processed in order to evaluate the performance indicators that could be easily understood by public administrations to increase their awareness of the danger and vulnerability of the territories and therefore support them in identifying the strategies necessary for a resilient reconstruction, for this reason we hope that they will become a pilot model that can also be replicated in other contexts ”, adds Giovinazzi. Like a real one guide to combine risk management from extreme events and adaptation to climate changethe results of ARCH have also been acquired by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and made available for download through the publication of the CEN Workshop Agreement [3] (CWA) “17727:2022 City Resilience Development – Guide to combine disaster risk management and climate change adaptation – Historic areas[4]”. “On the basis of the agreement, three years after its publication, the CWA can be transformed into a proposal for a European standard to be submitted to CEN and Italy is also working towards the adoption of the document as UNI CWA 17727: 2022”, says Giacomo Hedgehog of the Italian Standardization Body (UNI). “In Camerino we have installed an urban seismic network that covers the entire historic center and the territory inside it that allows to record seismic events even of low magnitude in a timely manner and in real time. This will allow to better characterize the local seismic response of the historic center and therefore to understand which sites amplify the earthquake more for the purpose of territorial planning of urbanized areas, how to guide the choice of areas for new settlements, define priorities and admissible interventions in a given area, to plan the necessary investigations and levels of in-depth analysis, ”underlines Antonio Costanzo, researcher of the INGV and coordinator of the activities of the institution for the project. “The University of Camerino has developed methods and tools for structural monitoring and diagnostics aimed at the recovery of these monumental assets and has them tested on the Doge’s Palace, until 2016 seat of the Rectorate of UNICAM and of the School of Law, uninhabitable from then to today. Right inside the Palazzo Ducale di Camerino, ENEA, UNICAM, INGV, assisted by the Municipality, had the opportunity to work as a team, developing and deepening multidisciplinary skills applied to cultural heritage ”, explained Prof. Andrea Dall’Asta. “Furthermore, in collaboration with the ENEA Materials and Chemical-Physical Processes Laboratory we have made a contribution for the knowledge of historical mortarswhose mechanical and chemical characteristics are an important element, among others, for the purpose of assessing the seismic vulnerability of buildings in historic centers ”, emphasizes Prof. Graziella Roselli. “The Municipality of Camerino is using the results of the ARCH project to carry out the seismic improvement and adaptation planning to the fullest and to improve, at the same time, the usability of the buildings themselves ”, underlines Arch. Maurizio Forconi, Head of Private Construction and Urban Planning of the Municipality of Camerino. Source: Enea press office [1] Advancing Resilience of historic areas against Climate-related and other Hazards [2] The 4 pilot cities have collaborated with 12 other European cities interested in increasing the resilience of their historical areas through a mutual learning process (Bratislava, Slovakia Cannes France, Warsaw Poland, Zadar Croatia, Camerino, Italy Appignano del Tronto Italy, Rhodes Dodecanese Greece, Maribor Slovenia, Hamburg Germany, Liverpool UK, Regensburg Germany, Thessaloniki Greece, Valencia Spain Alba Italy, Augsburg Germany, Zaragoza Spain) [3] https://www.uni.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8863&Itemid=2856 [4] https://www.cencenelec.eu/media/CEN-CENELEC/CWAs/RI/cwa17727_2022.pdf *The article has been translated based on the content of Le ultime news dal mondo dell'edilizia by www.edilportale.com . If there is any problem regarding the content, copyright, please leave a report below the article. 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