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Amelioration and retrofitting of educational buildings

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Following a seismic event that occurred years ago in Central Italy, the public opinion was growing and growing a concern on the adequacy of educational buildings all across Italy. This activated several political decisions and a consequent technical effort is in progress. Technically speaking one has to manage the classical problem of retrofitting existing buildings. However, the legal environment goes across national codes, targeted guidelines and the professional need of achieving pragmatic solutions based on ethical and social acceptation schemes.This paper introduces the topic in its worldwide exception and focuses then on some operative aspects in the Italian situation. It outlines the consolidated steps along this technical process and emphasizes the weak aspects one meets when going across the designers’ reports.

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  1. DICAR, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 3, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Fabio Casciati

  2. DICAR, University of Catania, Piazza Federico di Svevia, 96100, Siracusa, Italy

    Sara Casciati

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Casciati, F., Casciati, S. Amelioration and retrofitting of educational buildings. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 17, 47–51 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-018-0424-2

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