SPECIAL SESSION #1
Metrology for Climate Resilient Living Environments
ORGANIZED BY
Serena Serroni
Serena Serroni
University Polytechnic of Marche, Italy
Gian Marco Revel
Gian Marco Revel
University Polytechnic of Marche, Italy
Enrico Quagliarini
Enrico Quagliarini
University Polytechnic of Marche, Italy
Gabriele Bernardini
Gabriele Bernardini
University Polytechnic of Marche, Italy
Stamatia Rizou
Stamatia Rizou
SingularLogic S.A.
Sotirios Aspragkathos
Sotirios Aspragkathos
SingularLogic S.A.
ABSTRACT
This special session focuses on advancing climate resilience in buildings and urban ecosystems through innovative methodologies and stakeholder-driven approaches. As climate risks such as heatwaves, flooding, and earthquakes increase in frequency and severity, CLIMRES takes a leadership role in fostering ‘Leadership for Climate Resilient Buildings.’ The session emphasizes co-creation, integrating cutting-edge scientific research, advanced tools, and proactive stakeholder engagement to identify, assess, and address vulnerabilities in the built environment.
A key discussion point is the development of robust frameworks for assessing and monitoring climate resilience. By leveraging high-quality data, including real-time weather forecasts, hazard warnings, and predictive models, the session will explore methodologies for identifying and categorizing building vulnerabilities. These frameworks are complemented by early-stage tools, such as renovation passports, designed to inform and guide building owners and policymakers in prioritizing and implementing effective climate adaptation strategies. The session will introduce the CLIMRES Hub of Measures, an evolving inventory of innovative design solutions and materials aimed at enhancing building resilience to extreme climatic events. This hub aims to constitute the basis of actionable strategies for geographical and environmental contexts, ensuring solutions feature adaptability and scalability for various types of hazards. A significant focus will be placed on the early development of decision-support services tailored for strategic, tactical, and operational resilience. These tools are intended to assist stakeholders in identifying vulnerabilities, planning effective interventions, and improving preparedness for climate-induced risks. Drawing on insights from the CLIMRES pilot sites in Greece, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain, along with the replication multiplier in France, the session will provide examples that validate the applicability and scalability of the proposed solutions across diverse contexts and hazard types.
Participants are encouraged to contribute research, insights, and case studies on innovative approaches to urban and building resilience. The session will spotlight how data-driven tools, collaborative methodologies, and stakeholder engagement are shaping the foundation for long-term climate adaptation, providing valuable pathways toward safer, more resilient living environments. The discussions during the session will attempt to explore pathways for promoting the improved resilience of buildings through scalable, adaptable techniques that result from the project. This session also serves as a platform to present the CLIMRES project, funded under the Horizon Europe framework (Grant Agreement n. 101147777). By focusing on the early-stage definition of tools, frameworks, and solutions, CLIMRES is setting the stage for actionable and scalable strategies that address climate vulnerabilities while empowering communities and stakeholders to build a more resilient future.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Serena Serroni, is Research Fellow at department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (DIISM) of UNIVPM. She is working on European projects related to different aspects of Indoor Environmental Quality, monitored through IoT system and in supporting the development of measurement techniques and digital services in relation to the construction industry buildings and the built environment. She has a master’s degree in biomedical engineering (UNIVPM) and a PhD in Thermal and Mechanical measurement.
Gian Marco Revel is Full Professor in Mechanical and Thermal Measurement at Università Politecnica delle Marche, where he is Rector Delegate for European Research. He received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical measurements from Università degli Studi di Padova in 1998. His research focuses on sensors and measurement technologies for buildings, health and industrial applications, with a particular focus on comfort and human behaviour and diagnostics.
Enrico Quagliarini is a full professor in “Architectural Engineering” and currently the Head of the Department of Construction and Civil Engineering and Architecture, at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy). His scientific and research activities concern the conservation and retrofitting of existing built environments, as well as their behavioural-based assessment for designing risk reduction and evacuation strategies in single and multi-hazard such as terrorist acts, earthquake, flood, fire and overcrowding. These activities are oriented towards users’ behaviours testing, analysis and modelling, mainly devoted to outdoor and urban scenarios, and also cover the development, validation and application of simulation (i.e. agent-based) tools. He is also principal investigator/research staff member of several funded National and European competitive research projects.
Dr. Gabriele Bernardini is a researcher and lecturer in “Architectural Engineering” at the Università Politecnica delle Marche at Ancona (Italy). His research activity focuses onithe development of methods and tools to include user-cenetered factors in building design, operation, and maintenance. In this context, his work is widely focused on users’ safety in the built environment (i.e. emergency and evacuation), by involving the building, the open space, and the urban scale. He develops methods for the analysis of users’ exposure behaviours in case of different emergencies, simulation models and software for evacuation analyses, including those for flood and earthquake risk, and innovative systems for helping people during an emergency in urban scenarios.
Stamatia Rizou is R&D Manager at SingularLogic, where she leads a multi-disciplinary research team in the areas of data technologies and innovative applications. She holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens and a PhD degree in the field of distributed systems from the University of Stuttgart. Stamatia has more than 10 years’ experience as principal investigator in European funded R&D projects. She has been awarded an MSCA fellowship for her research in the area of Cloud computing and she has been industrial supervisor of more than 5 PhD students. She is currently involved as project coordinator in several EU-funded projects, which develop innovative ICT solutions for energy efficiency and climate resilience in the buildings sector.
Dr. Sotirios Aspragkathos holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Mechanical Aeronautical Engineering Department (MEAD) at the University of Patras and has completed his Ph.D. in Robotics control theory at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). His PhD thesis, “Multi-rotor Real-time Control based on Visual Servoing of Evolving Features,” delved into the development of autonomous control algorithms for mobile robotic platforms, such as UAVs, and the overall field of research in robotic system modeling, analysis, and control. Now he is part of the R&D and Innovation Department at SingularLogic, participating in the design and delivery of advanced technological solutions addressing challenges in data management, data storage and ETL processes. He is also engaging in continuous learning and application of cutting-edge technologies to support project goals and participating in various European Union-funded projects, including Horizon, Life, and Marie-Curie, from the proposal writing till the execution stage.
