Webinars
RISKADAPT Platform – Pilot 2 Demonstration
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This webinar presents a demonstration of the RISKADAPT platform within the context of Pilot 2, which focuses on assessing the vulnerability of energy transmission grid in Nordic climate conditions. The platform supports risk-informed decision-making by integrating structural, climatic, environmental and social data. The system is built around different user roles and permissions tailored to specific needs:
- Administrators have full control over system configuration and data management. They can define geographic areas, manage assets, upload BIM models, structural data, and material properties and configure adaptation strategies such as the use of High Strength Steel or FRP stripes.
- End Users include several key stakeholder groups:
- Engineers interested in asset risk and structural performance
- Social scientists focusing on societal impacts of failures
- Climatologists working with hazard data and climate projections
- System operators like FINGRID, who benefit from a comprehensive risk overview
The platform enables collaborative analysis across disciplines, combining technical, environmental, and social dimensions of risk to support more resilient infrastructure planning.
Introduction to RISKADAPT & Climate Challenges
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1. RISKADAPT Project Summary.
Overview of the project, objectives, key findings – This presentation focuses on RISKADAPT that is a Horizon Europe-funded project developing an innovative, modular, interoperable platform (PRISKADAPT). This platform supports systemic, risk-informed decisions on Climate Change adaptation at the asset level. It will explicitly model infrastructures, integrating advanced climate science, structural analysis, and life cycle assessment to assess technical and social climate risks. The platform will provide asset-specific indicators within a Model Information System (MIS), ensuring customizable and scalable adaptation solutions across Europe.
2. RISKADAPT Climate data and climate change (Understanding climate risks and their impact on structures).
This is a short overview of the climate models and data that are utilized in the RISKADAPT project, especially related to the project’s Pilots.
About the Speakers
Apostolos Parasyris is a multidisciplinary researcher and engineer specializing in the integration of AI-driven models into various engineering domains to enhance analytical and predictive capabilities, with extensive experience in EU projects and hands-on technical design. He is a doctoral candidate in EEE at the University of Strathclyde and serves as a Research Scientist and Project Manager at Risa Sicherheitsanalysen GmbH.
Marko Laine is a Research Professor at Meteorological Research Unit of Finnish Meteorological Institute. He has long experience on working with complex models and on the statistical analysis of uncertainties in model-based predictions.
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Material Degradation & Adaptation Options Under Climate Change
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1. RISKADAPT Material degradation under climate change (How climate conditions affect materials over time)
The aim of the presentation is to demonstrate the results of the material degradation estimations for the structures of RISKADAPT pilots at present and future times, considering the climatic and environmental parameters of their locations and any possible effects of climate change, especially in future predictions. To do so, appropriate material degradation models for concrete and steel structures, available in relevant literature and standards are elaborated and applied to each pilot.
2. RISKADAPT Climate change adaptation options (Best practices and strategies to mitigate risks).
This presentation examines climate change adaptation strategies, focusing on best practices for risk mitigation in the precast concrete industry. It explores innovative solutions and case studies that enhance structural resilience. The objective is to provide evidence-based insights into reducing climate-related vulnerabilities through adaptive design and policy frameworks.
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Dimitrios Bilionis is a Civil Engineer, MSc. and PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests focus on risk assessment of structures and the application probabilistic methods in civil engineering problems. He is currently a member of ERRA working as a research associate and project manager.
Alessio Rimoldi, Secretary General of BIBM, has an engineering background and leads the European Federation of the Precast Concrete Industry, advocating for sustainable and innovative construction solutions. Magdalena Herbik, Public Affairs and Communications Manager at BIBM, specialises in EU policy and legislative affairs, ensuring the industry’s voice is heard in Brussels. Together, they cover key regulatory and technical issues impacting precast concrete within the evolving European legislative framework.
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Case Studies & Real-World Applications
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- RISKADAPT Pilot 2 (Findings and insights from Pilot 2).
The presentation demonstrates a framework for assessing the structural risk of power transmission lines under adverse weather events (such as extreme wind and icing) in a Nordic climate. The framework is applied on a power line located in eastern Finland which serves as Pilot 2 of RISKADAPT project. The risk, expressed as in terms of annual probability of failure, of a selected tower of the line is estimated for various versions of the tower: as-built, deteriorated due to steel corrosion, strengthened by fiber-polymer stripes and re-designed with high strength steel profiles, and for different hazard levels based on different climatic models.
2. RISKADAPT Pilot 3 (Findings and insights from Pilot 3).
The focus concerns the structural behaviour of high-rise buildings under horizontal loadings system such as the actions of strong winds. The structural vulnerability of the strategic importance Cattinara Hospital in Trieste exposed to the Bora winds with gusts of more than 50m/sec was presented and discussed.
The presentation reports the results of the study of wind dynamics in RISKADAPT Pilot 1, which is the compound of the public hospital of Cattinara (Trieste, Italy). The results of the climatic analysis of atmospheric conditions is followed by a detailed study of the atmospheric load on the building faces, quantified by means of surface pressure. The study highlights the application of a downscaling methodology to transport climatic and meteorological information to the level of individual buildings, informing very high-resolution simulations that faithfully reproduce realistic atmospheric conditions.
About the Speakers
Dimitrios Bilionis is a Civil Engineer, MSc. and PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His research interests focus on risk assessment of structures and the application probabilistic methods in civil engineering problems. He is currently a member of ERRA working as a research associate and project manager.
Vassilis Kallidromitis, is a senior structural engineer, graduated in the Sapienza 1st University of Rome in 1969, Director of Tecnic Consulting Engineers S.R.L. based in Rome, Designer and Technical Manager of a large number of civil infrastructures.
Carlo Cintolesi is a junior assistant professor at the dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy. He has expertise in computational fluid dynamics, with a focus on high-resolved numerical simulations of turbulent flows and heat transfer processes utilising the large-eddy simulation approach. The physical phenomena investigated include heat exchange mechanisms, turbulent convection, and water evaporation in the low atmosphere.
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