SAFE-FACE
Seismic SAFety and Energy efficiency: Integrated technologies and multi-criteria performance-based design for building FACadEs
Building facades are currently designed targeting high levels of energy efficiency, due to the urgent need for more resilient and sustainable communities often driving socio-political decisions. However, environmentally sustainable facades are insufficient to create resilient societies.
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In seismic hazard zones, façade performance and serviceability can be severely impacted by earthquakes. Façade damage can occur even at low seismic intensities, leading to potential life-safety threat, substantial socio-economic losses and market disruption. Safer façade systems are thus urgently needed, and SAFE-FACE project addresses this need.
Damage-control construction details and energy efficiency techniques will be combined to develop earthquake-proof sustainable facades for mid-rise residential/office buildings. The typical façade design procedure will be advanced by integrating the seismic study. Multi-criteria performance-based tools and frameworks, including seismic safety as a decisive criterion, will be developed (or enhanced) to support the design of façade systems: a novel practice-oriented tool; an advanced optimization-based tool; an innovative probabilistic fragility-based approach.
Involving various disciplines and industrial/academic collaboration, the research represents both a scientific problem and a socio-political priority: it aims at the resilient and sustainable development of buildings and timely responds to the safety and socio-economic needs of our modern society.
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Facts
Funder: | European Union |
Programme: | Horizon 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions |
Overall budget: | € |
Grant amount: | € 175.572.48 |
Grant number: | 101029605 |
Role TU Delft: | Lead partner |
Project duration: | July 2021 - July 2023 |
TU Delft researchers: | Prof.Dr.-Ing. Tillmann Klein |
Project partners
Permasteelisa Group
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