The funding proposal for the project entitled “Collapse risk categorization of the building stock in the Valencian Community to assess its robustness (ENFORCE)” has been approved.
The project will be funded by the Universitat Politècnica de València through grants from the Vice-Rectorate for Research (PAID-06-24), with a total budget of €9,000 and a duration of 18 months. The Principal Investigator (PI) of the project is Lisbel Rueda García (UPV).
Among the numerous existing buildings in a region, robustness varies significantly. Currently, there are no well-established methodologies to assess the collapse risk of buildings in a region and to prioritize retrofitting actions, as seen in other fields of knowledge such as seismic engineering and hydrology, through risk maps.
The Enforce project tackles this challenge, starting at the regional level and developing a methodology that could be extended to other areas in the future. The objective is to provide a user-friendly tool for assessing the collapse risk of existing buildings in the Valencian Community, supporting decision-making on robustness improvement.
