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Greening the Brownfields of Thermal Power Plants in Rural Areas, an Example from Romania, Set in the Context of Developments in the Industrialized Country of Germany
No full textThis paper describes the greening of ash dumps from two thermal power plants located in Romania, in the villages of Mintia and Doicești, two rural areas neighboring middle-sized cities, both with architectural, archaeological and landscape heritage. Currently, the two Romanian villages have different fates in the context of shrinking cities, and solutions from the industrialized country of Germany that are more advanced in closing polluting thermal power plants are examples of this. Thus, the greening of industrial waste is one of the current challenges of the energy shift towards renewable energy. Nature-based solutions such as the proposed use of the biodegradable geo-textile in the greening is one of the current trends. The development of the biodegradable geo-textile was contemporary with the creation of the International Building Exhibition (Internationale Bauaaustellung—IBA) Emscher Park in the ancient industrial coal mining Ruhr area, in Germany; later research, around 10 years ago, explored soil pollution at these two Romanian thermal power plants. A recent research study investigated the conversion of the industrial buildings of the thermal power plant in Doicești, however, these buildings were demolished at the end of last year. Mintia thermal power plant continues to function. This paper explores the current challenges of industrial brownfields, energy shift, ecology, the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris and “Laudato si”, spanning 30 years of history and the legacy of the research over this time
Towards a more resilient garden restoration? Lessons from the past and ways to the future
No full textDissemination of scientific research findings and evidence has been dee-pening our understanding of the multiple (and often conflicting) relation-ships between the historical garden/park space and their users. This makes somehow easier to take into account in the preliminary phases of the restorative design the users‟ expectations, needs and behaviours. In turn, the availability of big data and increasingly sophisticated digital tools helps restore gardens and parks better by adapting both design and pro-gramme to the contemporary needs, expectations, and reactions of its users
Aspects of Architecture and Urbanism in the Reconstruction of Disaster: Comparison of L’ Aquila (Italy) with Kolontar/Devecser (Hungary) and Corbeni (Romania) in the Context of Participative Reconstruction
No full textMap of Impact of Natural Hazards
Get PDFThis paper investigates the mapping of the impact of
natural hazards as included in several databases reviewed or created by the author. These are:
- The database of the contribution of the session series “Natural
hazards’ impact on urban areas and infrastructure”, convened and
co-convened by the first author over 15 years at the European
Geosciences General Assembly.
- A database created from reviews of students supervised by the
authors in frame of the course “Protection of settlements against
risks” at the home university.
- A collection of historical photographs from the 19th century on
different natural and man-made hazards from the Canadian Centre
for Architecture, the archive review of which has been performed by
the first author and which will be subject of a book to be published
about the time of the conference.
-Two reviewed collections, one from the exhibition and book on
“Images of disasters” (German research) and one on the book
“Illustrated history of natural disasters” which include major
disasters from the beginning of the mankind.
In frame of the paper maps of the spread of data will be presented,
created using both arcGIS online and GoogleMaps (see
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zpbbz3WgVMBs.k-3vhGj-
-l1M&usp=sharing), comparing the source and the type of hazard, to see eventual overlappings between the databases
Planning and Designing Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes: Conclusion and Recommendations for Further Work
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Decision Making Based on Benefit-Costs Analysis: Costs of Preventive Retrofit versus Costs of Repair after Earthquake Hazards
No full textThe reduction of seismic risk through the retrofitting of historic buildings serves catastrophe management. In the application of such measures, actors from the spheres of the passive public, experts, as well as active affected people, are involved. The focus of this work is on planning management in the expert area, with a detailed view on the decision space between goals, means, benefits and costs. Buildings of a typology were modelled, and the models translated using a finite elements software with fibre-based modelling of plasticity. The concept of retrofit elements was developed, in order to connect building surveys, construction management, structural simulations, and costs computation based on devices, all related to these retrofit elements. With a view to the general methodology, in order to compare the costs for repairs to buildings after an earthquake with the costs associated with preventive retrofitting of an undamaged building, several cases were considered: damages on a non-retrofitted building, damages on retrofitted building, retrofitting on an undamaged building, retrofitting on a pre-damaged building, and the subsequent damages in an earthquake for the last two. The innovative part of this research lies in the use of the tension-elongation approach to models of building size. Such an analysis allows not only the description of ways of collapsing and the setting of limit states, but also exactly the specific amount and position of the structural members which fail in certain performance criteria. This type of results can form the basis for interdisciplinary studies, such as economic efficiency studies. The method was applied for early reinforced concrete buildings, which are common in Bucharest, Romania, in a deterministic method which takes into account recorded earthquakes. In conclusion, depending on the size of an earthquake, the timing and extent of the retrofit to be applied differ, if we are to obtain cost savings in preventive retrofitting compared to post-earthquake repair. This is presented through a range of costs curves
Book review: Wieczorek A., Schenk G. J., Juneja M., Lind C. (Eds.) (2014), Human. Nature. Disaster. From Atlantis till today [in German], Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, Germany
Get PDFThe present article is a review of the book: Wieczorek A., Schenk G. J., Juneja M., Lind C. (Eds.) (2014), Human. Nature. Disaster. From Atlantis till today [in German], Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, Germany, ISBN 978-3-7954-2880-8, 280 pages
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