Learning from the past: sustainably produced bricks, better earthquake resilience
CORDIS - Eu research results
08.11.2021
What can the brickmakers and architects of the past teach us about the sustainable production of bricks and how buildings can be made more quake-resilient?
Italy, home to some of the most spectacular ancient brick-built edifices in Europe, is seismically active. Two recent earthquakes, in 2017 and 2016, caused widespread damage in central Italy. So Elena Mercedes Pérez-Monserrat, a researcher based at the Geosciences Department, University of Padua, set out to establish what building materials and styles of the country’s ancient past were more likely to withstand the impact, and why.
