Over the next two years, Building Resilient will collaborate with the companies CALSENS and COTA A COTA in the SENSAT project, which has been funded by the
During the next two years, we will collaborate with the company LIC in the project: “Digitized, Automated and Intelligent Systems for the Shoring of Large Reinforced and
Nirvan Makoond has just received the Special Doctoral Award for his Doctoral Thesis “Structural diagnosis of masonry heritage: contributions to non-destructive testing, structural health monitoring and risk
We have already started work on our new Pont3 project, entitled “Anticipating failure propagation of ageing bridges through a cost-effective interdisciplinary approach”. The aim of the project
The summer season has been a busy one for the Building Resilient team, with presentations of our research in several international conferences. José Adam and Juan José
The 21/22 academic year has been very fruitful for Building Resilient, particularly with the start of the ERC Endure project in January 2022. Last September, the team
On June 7, 8 and 9, the workshop “Preventing structural failure propagation” and one of the meetings with the Advisory Board and collaborators of the European Research
In May and June we have been carrying out tests on a building-specimen for the PREBUST project. In April we were constructing the building-specimen, which was composed
Two new researchers have just joined Building Resilient: Diego Cetina and Lorenzo Marín. Diego Cetina holds a master’s degree in Concrete Engineering from the UPV and joins
In April we have finished the construction works for the PREBUST project. The construction consisted of a building-specimen with 15 x 12 m in plan, and with
Human society is greatly affected when key infrastructures such as bridges and buildings collapse. Why do we see these occurring more often? Despite the undeniable fact that
Two new researchers and a Grants Manager have just joined Building Resilient: Giacomo Caredda, Marina Oliver and Ana Sánchez. Giacomo Caredda holds a master’s degree in Civil
A progressive collapse occurs in a building when a local failure spreads to the rest of the structure. Typically, these collapses lead to severe human and material
Steel truss bridges are particularly vulnerable to progressive collapse, which is understood as the process by which an initial local damage propagates to the rest of the
The PREBUST research project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, aims to evaluate the robustness of precast concrete structures to extreme events such as
