Summary:
As climatic conditions are constantly changing and the frequency of extreme events increases, there is an urgency to plan, designing, and retrofit the built environment in order to adapt it to present and future risks. Too frequently the built environment is a driver of vulnerability, rather than being a shelter for citizens. For this reason, mitigation and adaptation need to be pursued actively, putting the built environment and human resilience at the center of a climate and future-proofing action. The MULTICLIMACT project aims to develop a mainstream framework and a tool for supporting public stakeholders and citizens to assess the resilience of the built environment and its people at multiple scales (buildings, urban areas, territories) against locally relevant natural and climatic hazards and supply chains, as well as to support them to enhance their preparedness and responsiveness across their life cycle. The mainstreamed approach will include a method specifically targeted for including several types of built environment assets, including human well-being, health, and quality of life as an essential scale of analysis and action. MULTICLIMACT will support resilience-enabling ACTions by implementing a toolkit of 18 reliable, easy-to-implement, and cost-effective Design Methods, Materials, and Digital Solutions, enabling users to easily estimate the impact of their implementation on the resilience of the targeted asset, integrating a multidisciplinary approach integrating socio-economic, life, engineering, and climate disciplines. The MULTICLIMACT approach is integrated with relevant international and European initiatives, building upon existing knowledge and instruments, and demonstrating the proposed approach in four case studies that represent various geographical locations, natural and climatic hazards, social and economic systems, and scales of analysis, ranging from single buildings (including cultural heritage) to the urban and territorial scales.
Duration: Start date 1 October 2023 – End date 31 March 2027
Budget: € 7 499 166.31
Leading Institution: RINA Consulting S.p.A.
23 Partners – Partnership: BRIGAID CONNECT Association
In the MULTICLIMACT project, our team participates through the Brigaid Connect association.
Team Members:
Prof. Phoebe Koundouri Dr. Konstantinos Dellis
BRC will lead the integration of the MULTICLIMACT toolkit into the Climate Innovation Window, toward its international outreach (T16.4). Furthermore, we will contribute to the several tasks across the WPs that include planning and designing resilient housing and a human-centered built environment for improving people’s health and well-being, design digital solutions for monitoring of environmental and structural behaviour of buildings, assessing current resilience of built environment assets, and development of the digital solution for the application to a real demo case.
MULTICLIMACT is a Horizon Europe project supported by the European Commission under grant agreement No 101123538
