Università Roma Tre

TOPIC 1 - DESIGN: SUSTAINABILITY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Part 1 - SUSTAINABILITY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
- Introduction sustainability in Civil Engineering
- The Triple Bottom Line: Environmental, social and economic pillars
o Brief introduction
o Economic Pillar
o Social Pillar
o Environmental pillar
 Ecological footprint
 Planet Boundary
 Life cycle assessment
- Sustainable strategies
o Recycled content
o Local sourcing and local manufacturing
o Durability and reduced maintenance
o Design for adaptability and deconstruction
o Reuse of buildings, structural components, and non-building structures
o Structural Materials and Toxicity
o Life cycle assessment (in brief)
Part 2 - LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA)
- Theory
- Applications
- Exercises
Part 3 - SUSTAINABILITY OF BUILDING MATERIALS
- Materials introduction
- Masonry
- Steel
- Wood
- Natural building materials and systems
- Concrete

TOPIC 2 - DESIGN: SUSTAINABILITY/DURABILITY OF CONCRETE
Part 1 - CONCRETE MATERIAL
- Concrete: basic theory on composition, mechanical properties of fresh and hardened concrete, classification
- Steel reinforcement in reinforced concrete
Part 2 – SUSTAINABILITY OF CONCRETE
- The sustainability benefits of concrete structures
- Durability and maintenance: general concepts

Part 3 - DURABILITY OF CONCRETE
- Deterioration and durability of reinforced concrete structures
- Degradation phenomena and mechanisms
- Design strategies for durability (part 1): Exposure classes, concrete cover design
- Design strategies for durability (part 2): Mix design of concrete
- Exercises on concrete cover design and concrete mix design
- Inspection, diagnosis and restoration of concrete structures

Part 4 - NEW STRATEGIES FOR CONCRETE DURABILITY
- Coatings and waterproofing, corrosion inhibitors
- Coated steel, stainless steel and FRP reinforcement
- Special concretes:
o (Ultra) High performance concrete (HPC/UHPC)
o Geopolymer concrete
o Fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC)
o Underwater concretes (beSub)
o 3-SC concretes (3-self concrete)
o Self-repairing/self-healing concretes
- Digital concrete (3D printed concrete)
- Concrete structures reinforced with FRP rebars
- Exercises

TOPIC 3 - RETROFITTING: SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE BUILT HERITAGE
Part 1 - FABRIC REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS MATRIX (FRCM) COMPOSITES
- History
- Brief application examples
- Constituent materials
- Mechanical properties
- Acceptance criteria

Part 2 – FRCM-STRENGTHENED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
- Design of flexural and shear FRCM reinforcement: theory
- Design of flexural and shear FRCM reinforcement: exercises

SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURAL DESIGN: Sustainability
- Fundamentals of Sustainability in Civil Engineering - A. Braham
- Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment - R.H. Crawford
- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment -Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
- Sustainable Construction Techniques – Detail Green Books, 2015
SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURAL DESIGN: Sustainability/Durability of Concrete
- Teoria e Tecnica delle Costruzioni Civili – R. Giannini, CittàStudi, 2011
- Il restauro dell’architettura moderna in cemento armato – L. Coppola, A. Buoso, Hoepli, 2015
- Materiali per l’edilizia: Una guida ai materiali strutturali, ausiliari e di rivestimento – G. Frigione, N. Mairo, Hoepli, 2010
- La durabilità del calcestruzzo armato – P. Pedeferri, L. Bertolini, McGraw-Hill, 2000
- Reinforced concrete with FRP bars: mechanics and design – A. Nanni, A. De Luca, H. J. Zadeh, CRC Press, 2014
RETROFITTING
- Consolidamento delle Strutture – M.A. Pisani, S. Cattaneo, T. D’Antino, Hoepli Editore, 2019