Resilient Vertical Forest Renovation of Reinforced Concrete Structures in Seismic prone areas

GREENERGY goes beyond the leading state of the art concepts in the area that aim mainly to produce nearly zero energy consumption and neutral carbon footprint within built environment in urban areas in order to promote the “green deal” while the real green nature itself is suppressed. Such an approach may satisfy merely mathematical indices and goals. However, it fails to revive natural growth in areas forests were once dominating, i.e. before urbanization. It holds down the decisive, that is natural mechanisms for sustainable environment of high air quality, controlled humidity, satisfaction and comfort for habitants.!

GREENERGY conducts basic research at building level in order to review barriers in existing renovation approaches that lead to exclusion of forests from cities and detrimental incompatibility with built environment and revolutionize vertical forest (VF) concepts. It gathers and coordinates approaches and develops the fundamental structural and energy related drivers in order to allow for harmonic VF growth inside smart cities and interconnection of urban forests in a unified high-quality living environment for citizens. It defines critical parameters and suitable concepts in order to optimize resilient and safe ecosystem that combines existing concrete buildings/infrastructure and VF. A physical model structure is tested in lab to set proof of a) innovative concept as well as real time data collection to interact with digital twin (hybrid), b) suitable carbon neutral contributing structure renovation with green materials and c) suitable green-corrosion-resistant building envelopes to act as a compatible structural interface with VF and allow its growth and advanced energy savings and high quality micro-climate.
Digital twin model is developed to incorporate and enable real time assessment from a combined structural-energy-human ‘health monitoring’ aspect and allow for future optimization scenarios. The tested GREENERGY building is designed in detail and evaluates parameters and concepts in terms of structural (corrosion, seismic strengthening and joints, monitoring), energy as well as management and mitigation of the associated risks. It will achieve increased share of green reusable and /or recyclable and/or biosourced construction materials / products used in building renovation to contribute to circular economy.
GREENERGY envisions forest diffusion to alleviate extreme weather conditions impacts in coastal seismic urban regions and to optimize inclusive people-centric social engagement towards habitant comfort and satisfaction through high-density urban forestation.