Project
🎯Project objectives
Establish a robust decision-support framework for quantifying the multi-hazard resilience of buildings and the potential losses due to extreme events:
- Define Resilience Readiness Levels and develop innovative resilience-based methods for assessing the wholelife resilience of materials, sub-systems (building envelope, main structure), buildings and urban areas.
- Provide a quantitative assessment of the potential negative impact on the society, economy and environment, in terms of integrated losses, in case of future extreme events (such as heat waves, floods, earthquakes).
Develop digital platforms and a suite of services for improving the multi-hazard resilience-based assessment and design across multiple scales:
- Embed novel resilience indicators, across building technology and human factors, and rating systems in multi-disciplinary decision-making procedures to support the selection of resilient-enhanced building stocks.
- Quantify the social benefits of technological solutions in terms of improved quality of living, working and perceived protection for the building users.
Develop and deploy interoperable digital solutions for real-time monitoring, improved well-being and resilience management
- Develop of data-driven digital processes for digital twinning and predictive modelling of the technology.
- Develop an improved management infrastructure for optimized maintenance and control of the building operation and for supporting the design of future-oriented buildings.
- Provide automatic warning systems for building users and citizens and rapid response in case of critical hazard. Identification of optimized emergency protocol and planning at large scale (district-neighbourhood).
Design low-carbon resilient solutions able to respond to multiple context-related hazards and building needs:
- 💻Devise a digital library of resilient technological solutions (for facades and load-bearing structure) with multifunctionality, low embodied energy and adaptability for a broad range of local hazards and building needs.
- Develop an effective early-stage decision-support tool for assessing the multi-hazard resilience of materials, components and solutions and for guiding in the selection of future-proof building systems.
Develop, prototype and test, plug & play modular and smart components for climate-adaptive, green and resilient buildings:
- Develop of easy-to-disassemble and standardized connections and components with efficient deconstruction, reduced installation time and lower construction waste for both new-build and intervention packages.
- Prototype and performance testing of green, climate-adaptive and smart solutions, including energy harvesting and storage systems, that enable resilience monitoring, long-term durability and self-sustainability in case of disruption.
Deliver multi-functional low-carbon modules (facades + structure + foundation) for upgrading the resilience and climate-adaptability in a sustainable manner:
- Integrate the most recent low-carbon (wood-based and bio-based) and cost-effective independent innovations in materials and components to develop multi-functional resilient modules for the overall building system.
- Generate locally driven solutions, e.g., level of prefabrication and material species, and models for resilient supply chains, also providing guidelines for integrating resilience in local tender processes.
Implement and monitor the MULTICARE solutions in three European demonstration sites:
- Detailed resilience-based design of the multi-functional solutions/interventions for pilot buildings. Technology implementation and long-term monitoring for each residential building (timber, reinforced concrete, masonry), located in diverse climatic zones with different multi-hazards (Italy, Netherlands, Romania).
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of the solutions, including integration of material circularity and future reusability, and fulfilment of project-related and regulatory requirements in each demonstration building.
Develop a resilience-based co-participatory design and end-user-oriented guidelines for inclusive adaptation strategies:
- Put in place co-participatory design sessions and initiatives to capture inhabitants’ requirements and expectations in order to devise inclusive and satisfactory climate adaptation and resilient interventions.
- Improve individual, household and community awareness and resilience, thereby promoting education and active public engagement on a resilient society and a circular economy.
Promote the MULTICARE solutions through comprehensive dissemination and communication, capacity building and cooperation strategies:
- Increase knowledge sharing and capacity building though planned activities with partners and external stakeholders. Facilitating the knowledge transfer with potential end-users by training materials.
- Maximize the impact of the project results through collaboration with other relevant projects funded under the same Work Programme and establishing international outreach and cooperation strategies.
Demonstrate of the replicability of the MULTICARE solutions at regional, country and European level for promoting market adoption:
- Demonstrate the replicability of the solutions in terms of techno-economic feasibility and socio-environmental impact at large scale. Develop financing schemes to ensure affordability of the MULTICARE solutions based on the ownership typology.
- Develop of business models through business planning, validation of plans for product development and market up-take of the MULTICARE solutions.