International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 9 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Tiago Miguel Ferreira, Romeu da Silva Vicente, Maurizio Indirli

Climate change mitigation: resilience indicators for roof solutions

Paola Lassandro, Teresa Cosola

This paper aims to increase the resilience of building systems, especially roofs, in relation to climate changes. The focus is on Mediterranean cities, where, often, there is no…

Future resilience of cultural heritage buildings – how do residents make sense of public authorities’ sustainability measures?

Åsne Lund Godbolt, Cecilie Flyen, Åshild Lappegard Hauge, Anne-Cathrine Flyen, Louise Leren Moen

This paper aims to analyze climate resilience and adaptation of cultural heritage buildings from the perspectives of both public authorities and residents. From a user-oriented…

Vulnerability and buildings service life applied to preventive conservation in cultural heritage

Rocío Ortiz, Juan Manuel Macias-Bernal, Pilar Ortiz

The purpose of this paper is to present research on vulnerability and service life indexes applied to cultural heritage buildings. The construction and rehabilitation industry is…

Resilient urban planning process in question: Istanbul case

Zeynep Deniz Yaman Galantini, Azime Tezer

This paper aims to describe an updated urban planning process to expose a theoretical model bridging the resilience concept and urban planning, and then it explains this process…

Municipal collaborative planning boosting climate resilience in the built environment

Cecilie Flyen, Åshild Lappegard Hauge, Anders-Johan Almås, Åsne Lund Godbolt

A meta-study covering the past decade maps the development of Norwegian municipal planning, climate adaptation and institutional vulnerability towards climate change. This paper…

An improved model for seismic risk assessment in Portugal

Mário Marques, Ricardo Monteiro, Raimundo Delgado

Portugal experienced very destructive earthquakes in the past, such as the well-known “Lisbon earthquake” in 1755. With such in mind, accurate estimates of human and economic…

Safety assessment of a high-rise dormitory in case of fire

Anass Rahouti, Sélim Datoussaïd, Thierry Descamps

This paper aims to focus on the combination of fire- and agent-based modelling approaches to assess the level of safety of a multi-storeyed building case study.

Maintenance, reconstruction and prevention for the regeneration of historic towns and centers

Maria Paola Gatti

The purpose of this study is for a higer sustainability of the historic towns and centres. The task of the society is to minimize risk and guarantee maximun safety within the…