Research Project Goals

By working alongside industry partners on real-life issues, highly qualified personnel (HQP) will gain valuable insights and advance innovative research solutions that can be adopted by practitioners. HQP will benefit from the involvement of academic partners from three universities, and will have access to the research facilities and equipment at all three participating institutions. The research will include a broad spectrum of questions directed at understanding the structural issues in historic structures within the context of climate adaptation.

The objectives of the research project are as follows:  

• Leveraging the experimental testing findings and computational simulations supports the adaptation of historic buildings to changing climatic conditions for their conservation.

• Use experimental testing and digital recording strategies to identify material properties and investigate the performance of unreinforced masonry and timber assemblies under imposed environmental and structural loading conditions.  

• Use computational modelling and digital recording strategies to simulate the performance of historic masonry and timber assemblies under forecasted climatic and extreme conditions.