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Multi-hazard low-carbon resilient technologies and multi-scale digital services for a future-proof, sustainable & user-centred built environment

Project description

Digital tools to upgrade multi-hazard resilience assessment of buildings

The built environment is not prepared for the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related extreme events, resulting in socio-economic losses and public health concerns. While solutions to enhance resilience against specific hazards do exist, more cost-effective and environmentally friendly approaches are needed. We also lack frameworks to assess climate resilience comprehensively. The EU-funded MULTICARE project aims to improve the multi-hazard resilience of our built environment. It will develop innovative decision-support frameworks and easily implementable, low-carbon resilient technologies in a cost-effective yet sustainable manner. The project will create digital tools for assessing, designing and managing multi-hazard resilience across various scales, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions on materials and the development of resilient supply chains, even for cultural heritage buildings.

Objective

The built environment is ill-prepared for more frequent and increasingly intense climate-related extreme events. These cause severe socio-economic losses and adversely affects public health. Recent scientific and technological advances in the construction industry provide timely solutions for improving the resilience of buildings for specific hazards, but these are often not cost effective or eco-friendly. There is a lack of frameworks for assessing the climate resilience, making it challenging to develop optimal solutions for multi-hazard scenarios.
MULTICARE will address this challenge by developing innovative multi-criteria decision-support frameworks and providing plug & play low-carbon resilient technologies for improving the multi-hazard resilience of our built environment in a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable manner. A suite of multi-disciplinary digital services and tools will be developed for multi-hazard resilience assessment, design, operation and management across multiple scales (material, component, building, neighbourhood/district). This will enable stakeholders to make more informed decisions to select materials/solutions and build resilient supply chains, even in case of cultural heritage buildings. We will demonstrate our results in large-scale pilots (3 buildings, 4 neighbourhoods/cities) in different countries with diverse conditions. A user-centred, inclusive and participatory approach will be consistently implemented at all stages of the project for citizens engagement and for extending the durability of MULTICARE impact.
To achieve the project goals, MULTICARE combines 21 partners covering the whole technical value chain required for solutions in resilient and sustainable buildings. The Consortium includes experience in social sciences, user engagement and training. The Consortium will support clustering activities with other projects aimed at sharing knowledge, experience, and raising public awareness of climate resilience.

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-02

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Coordinator

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Net EU contribution

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€ 1 597 022,31
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Participants (20)

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