Projects

LabCUBEegress is an experimental laboratory conceived and designed in order to study people’s movement and behaviour during egress situations. It is composed by several cubes with a flexible layout and this allows designing at small scale horizontal parts of an egress system.  Thanks to its portability LabCUBEegress can be

ASSESS project: Analysis of the Seismic ScEnarios of the School buildings for a definition of retrofitting priorities for Seismic risk reduction. UNESCO defined the ASSESS project as “a very good example for decision making process around the world for assessing and implementing measures leading to school safety”, and it asked

The proposed reclassification seismic territory of the region Friuli Venezia Giulia is aimed at identifying, training and updating of seismic zones of the region as required by the Ordinance 3274/03. The seismic reclassification proposal has been developed jointly by the University of Udine, Trieste and OGS already achievers of

After the May 6, 1976 earthquake in Friuli Venezia Giulia (North-East of Italy), over one hundred villages were almost destroyed. More than 17000 houses, a large number of schools, churches, town halls and factories were ruined. 45 municipalities were declared “destroyed”, 41 “damaged”, 52 “damaged”; the homeless were about 150000.

The regional seismic risk map is a strategic tool in planning interventions on old buildings. In fact, it shows the value in thousands of euro for the seismic retrofitting refers to census tracts of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The risk map has been prepared jointly by the University of Udine, Trieste