Professor Fabio Biondini, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is
the inaugural recipient of the ASCE Dan M. Frangopol Medal for Life-Cycle
Engineering of Civil Structures.
Officially established by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2023
to honor Professor Dan Frangopol, this medal is a recognition for those who have
made outstanding contributions in life-cycle engineering, in aspects such as
design, assessment, inspection, maintenance, and cost optimization of civil
structures and infrastructure systems.
The award is made biennially and is given for the first time in 2025 to
Professor Fabio Biondini with the following motivation:
“For distinguished achievements in the broad area of life-cycle engineering of
civil structures and infrastructure systems and outstanding contributions to
life-cycle of bridges and bridge networks“
The ASCE Frangopol Medal will be presented to Professor Fabio Biondini at the
Award Ceremony of the ASCE/SEI Structures Congress in Phoenix, Arizona, April
11, 2025.
For more information:
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L'articolo Inaugural ASCE Dan M. Frangopol Medal for Life-Cycle Engineering of
Civil Structures proviene da DICA - Polimi.
Building stories for the second life of modern architecture
MaaSAI project, coordinated by M4D Group, aims to revolutionise manufacturing
and remanufacturing processes by facilitating access to flexible and
decentralised capacities, through the Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) business
model, that extends the principles of the service-oriented economy to the
manufacturing industry.
MaaSAI aims to reduce the heavy investments that manufacturers have
traditionally had to make to set up and maintain their operations. With an
emphasis on production flexibility, agility and responsiveness, the MaaSAI
project enables on-demand manufacturing, reducing waste and optimising resource
utilisation, facilitating the transition towards more sustainable and circular
facilities, and promoting better integration of the value chain.
The MaaSAI project leverages Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) in
autonomous agents to negotiate the use of manufacturing capacities between
providers and consumers in a dynamic MaaS ecosystem. The incorporation of secure
and real-time data exchange between participating companies ensures fast
response times and improves collaboration. The kick-off meeting of the MaaSAI
project took place on 18 & 19 of December 2024, at the facilities of CERTH.
MaaSAI Consortium at CERTH Premices
Chiara Recalcati has been awarded the Prix de la Faculté des Geosciences et de
l’Environnement (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) for outstanding PhD Thesis
(PhD Thesis: Stochastic characterization of reactive processes in porous media).
Chiara has just completed her Double PhD path obtaining a PhD in Environmental
and Infrastructure Engineering (Politecnico di Milano) and a PhD in Earth
Sciences (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland).
Laudatio: In recognition of her seminal and synergistic experimental and
theoretical studies leading to quantitative understanding of nano-scale patterns
of heterogeneous geochemical reactions taking place at mineral-fluid interfaces
and driving chemical weathering of the Earth interior.
The prize has been awarded during the official ceremony in Lausanne on December
06, 2024.
L'articolo Chiara Recalcati has been awarded the Prix de la Faculté des
Geosciences et de l’Environnement proviene da DICA - Polimi.
On November 8, at the United Nations, the team composed of Maria Cristina Rulli
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo D’Odorico (University of California,
Berkeley, USA) was awarded the prestigious Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz
International Prize for Water (PSIPW).
The award was granted with the following motivation: “They spearheaded novel
analyzes of the water-energy-food nexus, describing how numerous, complex
factors interact, providing managers and policymakers better ways to be stewards
of freshwater in a changing, globalized world.”
This award celebrates the researchers’ innovative contribution to the analysis
of the water-energy-food nexus, providing valuable tools for sustainable water
resource management in a transforming world.
L'articolo Maria Cristina Rulli receives the ‘Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz
International Prize for Water’ proviene da DICA - Polimi.
Luca Iorio has been selected to participate in the upcoming ‘Global Young
Scientists Summit 2025‘, organized by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and
taking place from January 6–10 in Singapore.
The GYSS gathers outstanding young researchers and leading scientific minds from
around the world for a week to discuss scientific and technological trends,
future developments, and how research can address major global challenges.
Participants will have the opportunity to attend seminars led by highly esteemed
scientists, including Nobel laureates and similar distinguished figures.
L'articolo Luca Iorio selected to participate in the upcoming ‘Global Young
Scientists Summit 2025’ proviene da DICA - Website.
Vietnam is one of the world’s most captivating countries, but also one of the
most environmentally vulnerable. Its geographical location makes it highly
susceptible to natural disasters and weather-related losses, with climate change
likely to further aggravate this situation. In this context, the CADEO Project
(Climate change Adaptation using Digital geospatial twins and Earth
Observation), under the leadership of Professor Maria Antonia Brovelli, plays a
crucial role.
From October 9 to 13, 2024, the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering (DICA) at Politecnico di Milano, represented by Ludovico Biagi,
Daniele Oxoli, Vasil Yordanov, and Emanuela Zonca, carried out an outreach
mission in Vietnam as part of this Erasmus+-funded project. During the mission,
seminars were held at four universities across Ho Chi Minh City, Hue, and Hanoi,
with a special event hosted at the Italian Embassy in Hanoi.
The primary goal of the CADEO Project is to enhance Vietnam’s capacity to tackle
climate-related challenges through the use of geospatial data and innovative
technologies. These tools enable the monitoring, analysis, and prediction of
environmental changes, providing essential resources for sustainable resilience
strategies.
Key Objectives and Achievements:
* The development of 4 innovative courses focused on Earth Observation,
Geospatial Intelligence, Web Geospatial Applications, and Digital Twins of
the Earth.
* Training for university faculty in Vietnam to strengthen local expertise in
these technologies.
* The establishment of a blended learning model and the creation of an
eLearning system within Vietnamese universities, in collaboration with
European universities.
Through this collaboration, over 300 Vietnamese students will participate in the
coming five years, contributing to the nation’s strengthened capacity for
natural resource management and sustainable development.
CADEO Project Partners:
* Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) – Italia
* Lund University (LU) – Svezia
* Hanoi University of Mining and Geology (HUMG)
* Hue University (HU)
* Vietnamese-German University (VGU)
* Phenikaa University (PU)
* VidaGIS (VG)
The success of this mission marks a significant step forward in promoting
sustainability in Vietnam—a country experiencing rapid economic growth that
urgently needs sustainable solutions for its future.
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L'articolo CADEO: The Outreach Mission in Vietnam to Promote Sustainability and
Innovation proviene da DICA - Website.
The Call for Extended Abstracts is officially open for the seventh edition of
the Historic Mortars Conference (HMC 2025), which will take place from September
2-4, 2025, at the University of Padua.
HMC 2025 will focus on research concerning technology and characterization of
historic mortars, conservation and restoration issues in historic masonry
structures and archaeological sites, development of heritage-inspired building
materials for sustainable architecture, design of repair materials, and test
methods for historic and repair mortars. HMC 2025 will constitute a gateway of
interaction between the academic and professional worlds involved in the fields
of study of historic mortars and formulation, application and testing of
restoration materials for built heritage, linking advanced scientific research
to state-of-the-art industrial production and development.
HMC 2025 is co-organized by the University of Padova, the Politecnico di Milano,
the Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and Technologies for Energy of the
Italian National Research Council (CNR-ICMATE), and the Associazione Italiana di
Archeometria (AIAr), and co-sponsored by the International Union of Laboratories
and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM).
Call for Extended Abstracts is now open and will close on March 15th, 2025. You
can submit your contribution through the dedicated platform accessible from HMC
2025 website, https://hmc2025.com.
All accepted Extended Abstracts will be published in a Special Issue of the
bookseries “Costruire nel mondo antico”, published by Edizioni Quasar.
Furthermore, a selection of the best contributions presented to HMC 2025 will be
considered for publication in a Special Issue of Journal of Cultural Heritage
(Elsevier, 2023 Impact Factor: 3.5).
Please feel free to check the conference website https://hmc2025.com for details
and important dates, and do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail at
info@hmc2025.com for more information.
The flyer and poster of the event can be viewed at the following links.
L'articolo 7th Historic Mortars Conference (HMC 2025): Call for Extended
Abstracts Now Open proviene da DICA - Website.
The event was successfully held on Friday, September 27th at the Thessaloniki
Concert Hall. Many educational organizations and institutes participated while
M4D Group made a strong presence at the Researchers’ Night in Greece!
The team brought the colors of tradition with them! The Project Chromata
(ΧΡΩΜΑΤΑ) shared a new perspective on the preservation and reuse of our
traditional values, through a digital world where cultural heritage is
transcribed and projected through 3D virtual spaces.
The platform combines artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and
computer vision techniques to create virtual environments. Through the 3D
virtual spaces of the platform, the visitors explored a new digital world where
the cultural heritage is transcribed and displayed traditional customs, such as
the “Anastenaria”, the “Kodonofori” and the Thracian wedding.
We put on our VR glasses and transformed into inspectors in the Law Game
Project. A complete gamified training system for Law Enforcement Agencies to
assist them in developing core competencies required for intelligence crime
analysis and illegal acts prediction. The system uses the latest advances in
Virtual Reality Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Human Modelling, Emotional
Intelligence in Human-Artificial Agent Interaction, Social and Secure Cloud
Systems.
CDXi Solutions, a spin-off by M4D Group, demonstrated the PathoSAT solution.
PathoSAT is a water quality monitoring system which offers an efficient system
that utilizes multispectral satellite data and enables regular monitoring of
inland water bodies. Satellite data ensures water purity and provides alerts
when concentrations exceed normal levels. Visitors participated in a simulation
of the process through a camera that monitored a tank of water, detecting
contaminants on its surface.
We walked through all the dimensions of the construction sector with the ASHVIN
Project! An automated system for vision-based 3D inspection for maintenance
activities, integrated into a VR environment. Users could remotely navigate the
space and identify detected defects in real time.
The highlight of the night was our little visitors breaking the dance floor!
On September 30, 2024, the official Induction Ceremony for the 2024 Class of
elected Members of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) took place at
the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Among the newly elected
international members is Professor Alberto Guadagnini, professor of Hydraulic
and Water Engineering and Vice Rector for Research at Politecnico di Milano.
Guadagnini was recognized for his pioneering contributions to stochastic
hydrogeology and contaminant transport in aquifers, which have led to
improvements in water resource management and water quality.
The mission of the NAE and further details on the event can be found on the
official NAE website.
L'articolo Alberto Guadagnini Elected International Member of the US National
Academy of Engineering proviene da DICA - Website.