Scientific & Industrial motivations
Ongoing climatic changes have increased the frequency and magnitude of wind storms along coastal regions in extra tropical regions, Europe included. Such events impact on both building environment and human activities (e.g. transport infrastructures, buildings, urban areas), and coastal ecological system (e.g. tall trees, coastal dunes).
Objectives
The PROTEECT project aims at reducing the physical vulnerability of the exposed elements through the conceptual design and development of eco friendly mitigation measures (PNR, research field ‘area of intervention ‘Climate change, mitigation and adaptation’, breakdown 7 ‘Development of strategies and actions for climate adaption’), and their performance assessment by means of computational simulations, wind tunnel tests and in situ measurements (breakdown 8 ‘Methods and tools for knowledge, measure and monitoring of measures for climate adaption’) Politecnico di Torino, together with the foreign hosting institution and company, ensure the complementary, interdisciplinary and intersectoral skills needed to achieve the objectives in an international dimension.
The project is grounded on the past and ongoing European projects SMaRT (H2020/MSCA/ITN/EID) and HyPer SMM (H2020/MSCA/IF) recently celebrated by EU, focused on consistent and preparatory green topics.