On April 25, 2015, a M7.8 earthquake rattled central Nepal; ground motion recorded in Kantipath, Kathmandu, 76.86 km east of the epicenter suggested that the low-frequency component was dominant. We consider data from eight aftershocks following the Gorkha earthquake and analyze ground motion characteristics; we found that most of the ground motion records are dominated by low frequencies for e...

This paper retraces some research activities and application of 3D survey techniques and Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the environment of Cultural Heritage. It describes the diffusion of as-built BIM approach in the last years in Heritage Assets management, the socalled Built Heritage Information Modelling/Management (BHIMM or HBIM), that is nowadays an important and sustainable persp...

The cooperative energy management of aggregated buildings has recently received a great deal of interest due to substantial potential energy savings. These gains are mainly obtained in two ways: (i) Exploiting the load shifting capabilities of the cooperative buildings; (ii) Utilizing the expensive but energy efficient equipment that is commonly shared by the building community (e.g., heat pump...

In recent years cosmic rays have been suggested for civil applications. In this work a specific simulation to asses the feasibility of a muon based monitoring system for historical buildings static stability is presented. In particular the monitoring of the wooden vaulted roof of the “Palazzo della Loggia” of the City of Brescia will be described and the corresponding results will be presented.

The history of public library buildings in Finland from 1945 to the present is analyzed by examining the Finnish architectural and librarianship discourses on library planning and design. Two Finnish journals were chosen as the main research material: Arkkitehti, the main national publication for Finnish architects, and Kirjastolehti, the major publication for Finnish librarians. The key histor...

Seismic assessments of historical masonry buildings are affected by several sources epistemic uncertainty. These mainly the material and modelling parameters displacement capacity elements. Additional uncertainty lie in non-linear connections, such as wall-to-wall floor-to-wall connections. Latin Hypercube Sampling was performed to create 400 sets 11 parameters. The proposed approach is applied...