This report summarises the activities of the JRC institutional work package related to the resilience of the European building stock. It covers the fundamental components of seismic risk assessment studies, namely hazard (national design codes and recent research results), exposure (inventory of...
Composite structures are gaining importance due to economic and versatile applications. A new form of shear transmission – composite dowels – permits to design composite girders without an upper steel flange and with enduring shear connection. The composite dowel is produced by cutting a rolled ...
This report provides an overview on the concepts, processing procedures and examples used to quantify changes in built-up land from optical satellite imagery. This is part of the larger work of the Global Human Settlement (GHS) team from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) that aims to measure the s...
The purpose of this Thematic Issue is to provide an overview of new research on the linkages between energy and resource efficiency to help to inform policymaking in this area. The selection of research presented here offers insight into three key policy-relevant areas: 1) the relationship betwe...
It is important to protect critical buildings (shopping centres, government buildings and embassies), infrastructure and utilities, train and underground stations against being damaged, destroyed or disrupted by deliberate acts of terrorism, criminal activity and malicious behaviour. Normal regu...
In the framework of the SAFECAST Project, a full-scale three-storey precast building was subjected to a series of pseudodynamic (PsD) tests in the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA) at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The mock-up was constructed in such a w...
The SYNER-G project aims at developing a methodology to evaluate the seismic vulnerability to earthquakes of a complex system of interconnected infrastructural systems of regional/urban extension. This report summarizes the application of the SYNER-G methodology and tools to selected case studie...
This study provides the basis for the development of an EU framework for Digital Building Logbooks. The definition of Digital Building Logbook has been created as part of this study, based on a thorough stakeholder consultation, interviews with experts and detailed analysis of 40 existing Buildi...
The construction sector accounts nowadays for around 30 million jobs in the EU. Buildings also represent 40% of energy use and 33% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. The European Economic Recovery Plan, launched a year ago to address the current crisis, includes a new Research Public-Private...
The research project EFIResources: Resource Efficient Construction towards Sustainable Design supports European policies related to the efficient use of resources in construction. Its major goal is the development of a performance based approach for sustainable design, enabling to assess the res...
