Proceedings of the SAFESUST2 - SURECON Workshop
The Joint Research Centre is contributing to the formulation, implementation and promotion of European policies on strengthening the internal market for buildings and building products.
This includes the development and adoption of innovative materials, construction technologies and design methods for safe, resilient and resource-efficient buildings across their lifecycle.
This activity is developed within the Project SAFE&CLEAN-CONSTRUCT (Safe and Cleaner Technologies for Construction and Buildings).
In particular, the Workpackage SAFESUST (Impact of Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Requirements on Building Design and Retrofit) is aiming at developing a holistic design method, for assessing the global performance of buildings in terms of safety, energy efficiency and environmental impact.
This method, named Sustainable Structural Design (SSD) method, or simply SAFESUST method, considers both environmental and structural parameters in a life cycle perspective, and the results are expressed in purely economic terms, so that it can be potentially used by all categories of stakeholders.
In developing this approach, the necessary Roadmap is being drafted with the contribution of experts from different disciplines, and this is the aim of the SAFESUST workshop series.
A first SAFESUST workshop was held in Ispra in 2015 and was devoted to the definition of a “Roadmap for the improvement of earthquake resistance and eco-efficiency of existing buildings and cities”.
That Workshop had the participation of experts from different areas of expertise, namely Architecture and City Planning, Energy, Materials and Structures, as well as Financial.
The Workshop was organized in technical sessions, with keynote lectures, technical presentations and discussions based on the syntheses produced by the rapporteurs, and was said to be a success.
A similar scheme is being proposed for this SAFESUST 2 - SURECON Workshop “A Roadmap for the sustainable integrated retrofit of concrete buildings”.
In this workshop efforts will be paid to extend the roadmap for integrated retrofit of existing buildings to include actions other than earthquakes.
The collaboration with the University of Leeds, with which the Workshop is being co-organized, has been instrumental to the definition of important case studies, such as the multi-storey concrete panel buildings, which proved to have both insufficient thermal performances and insufficient robustness, and badly need a holistic approach for their renovation.
IUORIO Ornella;
NEGRO Paolo;
2020-10-21
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC119041
978-92-76-23865-2 (online),
978-92-76-23864-5 (print),
OP KJ-01-20-620-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-01-20-620-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC119041,
10.2760/78996 (online),
10.2760/35903 (print),
