Buildings, both critical and conventional ones, are often among the main facilities damaged in either a natural or a manmade disaster. In the unfortunate events of an earthquake or an explosion the above facilities may exceed their functional or structural limits and this can be visible. On the other hand, they can also suffer enormous damage to their capacity without producing any apparent visible signs. Such damage, for instance, in the case of an earthquake, can render the facility incapable of surviving consecutive aftershocks. These aftershocks take place within few hours of the earthquake and can have an intensity of up to 90% of the original earthquake intensity. The post-crisis damage assessment process for constructed facilities is based mainly on on-site inspection by experienced engineers. When the visible signs of damage are not of the kind that points to a definitive damage or non-damage state, further analysis is necessary. The problem is compounded by the shortage of experienced inspectors and the inevitable time delay caused by an in-depth structural analysis during which time a conservative position has to be taken and the facility stays closed. This is extremely painful in the case of critical buildings, such as, for instance, buildings necessary for the disaster planning and management (e.g., the Ministry of the Interior or civil protection agencies), or building that serve the affected population such as hospitals, police and fire stations, schools, etc.
The objective of this workshop is to discuss the importance and trends of structural and non-structural assessment techniques and methods (civil structural health monitoring) applied in critical or conventional buildings as a means to avoid partial and total collapses when disastrous incidents take place (e.g. earthquakes, explosions, etc.). Such assessments include - but not limited to – the deployment of novel monitoring sensor networks (in-building, environmental and aerial sensors) in conjunction to information and disaster management systems that provide the stakeholders rapidly with an evaluation of the magnitude of the disaster. Additionally, the assessment reports generated drive response, reconstruction and recovery planning efforts towards saving lives, restoring functionalities and building back better.
We invite submissions in the form of research and position papers, related to the workshop topics listed below. Papers should be formatted using the same template as ISCRAM short papers (available from the Call for Papers).
Submissions deadlines: April 7th, 2017
Acceptance notification: April 14th, 2017
The workshop is driven by the following projects:
Project’s Goal: This work provides a monitoring system for constructed facilities that produces a near real time, reliable, and continuously updated assessment of the structural condition of the monitored facilities after a disaster, with enough detail to be useful for early and full recovery planning. The above assessment is seamlessly integrated with automated, near real-time and continuously updated assessment of physical damage, loss of functionality, direct economic loss and needs of the monitored facilities and provides the required input for the prioritization of their repair.
Consortium: RECONASS Project consortium is comprised of 10 partners (4 SMEs, 1 Civil Protection Agency and 5 research/academic) from 7 EU countries. The Project also features a wide end user group of >50 members including civil protection agencies, insurance companies, damage map and monitoring system providers and assessment experts.
Project’s Goal: INACHUS aims to achieve a significant time reduction related to Urban Search and Rescue (USaR) phase by providing wide-area situation awareness solutions for improved detection and localisation of the trapped victims assisted by simulation tools for predicting structural failures and a holistic decision support mechanism incorporating operational procedures and resources of relevant actors.
Consortium: INACHUS partnership has been carefully selected to form a balanced consortium regarding all aspects including R&D (8), public entities (3), large companies (3) and SMEs (6) from 9 EU member states and 2 associated countries.
08:00-09:00 | Registration |
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09:00-09:10 |
Welcome & Introduction to the Workshop
(Dr. Angelos Amditis, ICCS, INACHUS and RECONASS Project Coordinator, Workshop Chair) |
09:10-09:30 |
“JRC+IFB Field Reporting Tool applied to Middle Italy earthquake event”
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09:30-09:50 |
“Using technology and the power of the crowd to improve emergency response”
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09:50-10:10 |
“Civil Protection Operations – Gaps and Future Trends”
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10:10-10:30 |
“Earthquake Nepal, 2015 – A structural
assessment: Examples & lessons learnt towards
resilient buildings”
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10:30-11:00 | Break |
11:00-11:20 |
“RECONASS Monitoring System & the Damage Assessment Platform”
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11:20-11:40 |
“HOT - Crowdsourced area based damage
assessments and comparative damage rankings”
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11:40-12:00 |
“The INACHUS System for Buildings Assessment
and SAR Operations”
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12:00-12:20 |
“3D laser imaging techniques to improve USaR
operations for wide-area surveillance and monitoring
of collapsed buildings”
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12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-14:20 |
“A Common Operational Picture for wide-area
situational awareness and emergency response
planning”
Anita Schilling, 3D-R&D Software Engineer, DIGINEXT This presentation will demonstrate how a Common Operational Picture can aid wide-area situational awareness by presenting on-going developments on situation and environment monitoring from the ZONeSEC European project and emergency response management from the INACHUS European project. |
14:20-15:20 |
Panel Session – RECONASS Evaluation
Civil Protection community needs for resilient buildings (part A) Moderators: Michael Markus (THW), Evangelos Sdongos (ICCS) |
15:20-16:00 | Break |
16:00-17:00 |
Panel Session – RECONASS Evaluation
Civil Protection community needs for resilient buildings (part B) Moderators: Michael Markus (THW), Evangelos Sdongos (ICCS) |
17:00-17:15 | Meeting Closure - Conclusions |
The workshop committee will be structured as follows:
Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication & Computer Systems (ICCS) & National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), A.Amditis@iccs.gr
Evangelos Sdongos, Institute of Communication & Computer Systems (ICCS) and National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), esdongos@iccs.gr
George Athanasiou, Institute of Communication & Computer Systems (ICCS) and National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), george.athanasiou@iccs.gr
Stephanos Camarinopoulos, RISA Sicherheitsanalysen GmbH, s.camarinopoulos@risa.de
He is Research Director in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), and member of its Board of Directors. He is the founder and the Head of the I-SENSE Group (http://i-sense.iccs.gr). Dr. Amditis received his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Telecommunications) in 1997 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and has been teaching in various courses (communication and computer networks, communication theory) of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of NTUA, of ICCS and of the Hellenic Naval Academy. He acted as an EU evaluation expert and as reviewer in a number of scientific journals. He is the writer of several peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and many conference papers. He has participated in more than 60 projects in the last 10 years and he is currently the coordinator of the following projects: SAFERtec, NeMo, AutoNet2030, FABRIC, SENSKIN, RECONASS, ROBO-SPECT and INACHUS.
He holds a MSc. in Telecommunications and Information Technology from the ECE Dpt. of Patras University and has extensive experience in the design, implementation and integration of mobile communication networks, embedded systems and sensors, security and emergency communication systems. Moreover, his recent research activities include automation capabilities of complex sensor networks for security applications. He has worked in several industrial projects and is actively participating in several FP7 and H2020 projects, such as PPDR-TC, eVACUATE, NEXES, PASSME and RECONASS as project/technical and quality manager. He has obtained an MBA from Hellenic Open University (2016) and he is currently PhD candidate at National Technical University of Athens. He has published several articles in conference proceedings and journals.
He received the diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Thessaly in 2005. In 2010 he obtained his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same University. He spent several years working as a researcher in Academia (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Information Technologies Institute at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Electrical Engineering School at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and University of Piraeus Research Centre) and in Industry (Telefonica Research and Intracom Telecom). He was also co-founder and CTO of Aukoti AB, a Swedish startup on sensor networking and building automation. He has authored more than 50 publications in international journals and refereed conferences. Since September 2014 he is with the ICCS/I-SENSE group working as a Technical Manager in EU research projects.