GNGTS 2023 - Atti del 41° Convegno Nazionale

Session 2.2 GNGTS 2023 Figure 2. a) Map of the historical districts of Timisoara in which historical buildings are identified; b) Damage assessment of the investigated buildings from Iosefin historical districts Conclusions The study on Faenza was finally included in the UBC regulation and in the document named “Seismicity City Plan” (SCP) – enclosed to the UBC as a document of mandatory consultation – becoming the basis for promoting strategies aimed at implementing preventive strengthening interventions on the buildings of the historical centre. The SCP is a valuable tool to guide choices in ordinary land management and affect seismic risk reduction actions and interventions. For example, the studies contained therein support the definition of: indications and rewards for interventions in the historic centre; increased urban planning incentives for the strengthening of buildings facing strategic axes; the definition of public intervention priorities identified by the overlap with ELC and supported by economic assessments (Giuffrida et al., 2020). The study on Timisoara is not part of any local regulations but is part of one national research contract, the “Multidisciplinary seismic risk assessment for heritage buildings in Timisoara, European Capital of Culture 2023”, financed by the Academy of Romanian Scientists. Moreover, another international research contract Ctos Action was proposed considering Timisoara as one of the main case study cities, under the name of “Fostering multi-risk Participatory Planning to enhance resilience and sustainable urban development”. The research work is a multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary work which highlights that besides understanding the structural behaviour of heritage buildings, a series of factors must also be taken into consideration. Only after such a comprehensive analysis, the possible preventing intervention solutions can be structurally evaluated and decisions and strengthening measures, if necessary, taken. The project represents a first tool in the process of seismic vulnerability assessment for the western part of Romania and can be applied by several categories of professionals, and by the owners of the building. The procedure can be easily understood and applied, so anyone can learn it in little time. In the absence of financial funds and limitations of time to conduct detailed technical expertise reports for each building, the proposed methodologies represent a simple way to perform a preliminary yet fast and cost-efficient assessment of a wider array of buildings, enabling to raise the awareness