Integrated Solutions for Multi-Hazard Resilient and Sustainable Buildings delves into innovative techniques and technological and digital methods that unlock the creation of the next generation of resilient and environmentally sustainable edifices. This multifaceted and multiskilled collaboration showcases the most recent scientific advancements in several disciplines such as structural engineering, facade engineering, building technology, materials science, and architecture to provide tailored solutions for a diverse range of audiences seeking conceptual frameworks, state-of-the-art coverage, and useful, real-world case studies that facilitate both understanding and applicability.
Focusing on multi-criteria undertakings that encompass technical, environmental, economic, and social factors, the book addresses the challenges of making more effective investment decisions for construction projects while also enabling the quantification of the benefits resulting from the adoption of integrated strategies to reduce overall potential losses in multi-hazard scenarios, including earthquakes, heatwaves, and flooding.
Focusing on multi-criteria undertakings that encompass technical, environmental, economic, and social factors, the book addresses the challenges of making more effective investment decisions for construction projects while also enabling the quantification of the benefits resulting from the adoption of integrated strategies to reduce overall potential losses in multi-hazard scenarios, including earthquakes, heatwaves, and flooding.
Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION1. Toward sustainable and multi-hazard resilient buildings: Current issues and needs
PART 2: INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES
2. A step-change for seismic risk reduction: Developing a national plan for the integrated seismic-energetic rehabilitation of the building stock
3. Advancements in post-tensioned timber buildings: The Pres-Lam system and its multi-hazard design and detailing
4. Refurbishment of residential buildings through multi-functional, modular building envelope systems
5. Low-carbon, resilient building envelopes: Development and multi-performance testing of bio-based facade solutions
PART 3: INTEGRATED DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
6. Structural and non-structural performance objectives and decision variables
7. Multi-hazard risk assessment: Scoring, selection, and development of physical impact models
8. Evaluating the performance of integrated seismic and energy-efficient retrofitting interventions via experimental testing
9. Impact of extreme weather-related events on building occupants and envelope design
10. Resilience and sustainability of tall buildings under wind loading
PART 4: MULTIDISCIPLINARY DECISION-MAKING
11. Integrating multi-hazard resilience into multi-criteria decision-making
12. Markov decision processes for optimal energy and seismic retrofit planning under uncertainty
13. Multi-criteria evaluation for integrated seismic and energy solutions for existing buildings
14. Resilience-based decision framework for building design against seismic and flood hazards
15. Digital twinning for building resilience and multidisciplinary planning
PART 5: CONCLUSIONS
16. Toward sustainable and multi-hazard resilient buildings: From theory to future practice
Authors
Simona Bianchi Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Structural Design & Mechanics Group, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.Simona Bianchi, Ph.D., P.E., is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer within the Structural Design & Mechanics Group at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. Her research primarily concerns probabilistic risk assessment and resilience design, with a specific focus on earthquake-proof and environmentally sustainable building technologies. She has been awarded a prestigious EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship to work on performance assessment and multi-criteria decision-making of building facades. Currently, she serves as the Technical Lead for the ?7.5M Horizon Europe MULTICARE project, aiming to develop low-carbon resilient solutions and digital tools for assessing, designing, and managing multi-hazard resilience.
Jonathan Ciurlanti Data Engineer, Arup Group Ltd., Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jonathan Ciurlanti, Ph.D., P.E., is a Data Engineer and the Data & Analytics skill champion at Arup Netherlands. With a diverse background in Civil Engineering and a PhD cum laude in Structural-Seismic Engineering from The Sapienza University of Rome, he possesses a unique combination of engineering knowledge and digital skills. At Arup, he is currently involved in many digital initiatives, from real-time monitoring to carbon data collection & analytics. Due to his passion for research and education, Jonathan maintains an active collaboration with academia, engaging in research related to sustainable structural design, probabilistic-based computational methods, risk assessment, and resilience against natural hazards and climate change.
