Project Title:
Complex Engineering Systems Performance Amelioration in Environmental, Energy and Resilience Aspects
Project duration: July 1, 2021 – November 30, 2022
Type of action(s) proposed:
- Exploratory research: Component 1a Environmental Aspects + Component 1b Energy Aspects,
- Europeanization: Component 2 methodological studies, setting up of degree or certificate training courses, capacity-building, joint publications, applications for project/financing tenders;
Partners:
- French Team at Univ. Tech. Compiegne-Alliance Sorbonne Univ. (UTC-SU):
– Components leaders: MM les Profs. Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Florian De Vuyst, Abdellatif Ouashine
(participants: Mme Adela Mejia-Nava, Mme Simona Dobrilla, M. Cong Nguyen, M. Ivan Rukavina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina Team at University of Sarajevo (UNSA):
– Components leaders: Mme les Profs. Naida Ademović, Emina Hadžalić, Emina Hajdo
(participants: M. Ismar Imamović, M. Emir Karavelić, M. Suljo Ljukovac, M. Samir Suljević)
Project manager: M. Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Prof. Classe Exceptionnelle & IUF Senior / Mme Emina Hajdo, Assistant Professor
Project description:
Component 1a Environmental Aspect (Exploration): Improving environment and energy balance efficiency of high-rise buildings in reducing the air pollution in Sarajevo Canton: feasibility
study of repair by adding external facades for better ventilation, ‘double’ ceilings for better heating, and roof wind turbines for environmental cleaning and energy production. This part of the project belongs within the strategic goals of Sarajevo Canton, and it especially concerns the following: responsibly manage the environment, space, natural and infrastructural resources,
especially in relation to electricity consumption or energy balance of business and residential tall buildings in the Sarajevo Canton, as well as reducing air pollution inside buildings and outdoor areas. The main subject of research in this part of the project is the problem of energy balance efficiency of high-rise buildings and the computation of their contribution to reducing air pollution in the Sarajevo Canton.
Component 1b Energy Aspect (Exploration): Global safety assessment of dams of capital importance for the energy system of Bosnia and Herzegovina: deterministic and probabilistic approach with taking into account damages in concrete occurred during the exploitation period. This part of the project falls within the strategic goals of Canton Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which
pertain to responsible infrastructure resources management in relation to the energy resources in the country. Hydraulic power plant count for more than 80% of the power supply in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Yet, with many dams constructed decades ago (during the period of ex-Yugoslavia), and since exposed to environmental and man-made extreme solicitations, there is pressing issue of verifying their safety and durability.
Component 2 “Europeanization”: One way for extending this project to “Europeanization” is through jointly focusing by two teams upon building resilient engineering systems. The topic of resilience is currently of utmost important for many complex systems (Ademović, Ibrahimbegovic 2020), as the ability of the system to react to perturbations, internal failures, and environmental events by absorbing the disturbance and/or reorganizing to quickly recover maintain its functionality. In the last 40 years, resilience has spread across different fields and domains, it is a multidisciplinary topic crossing natural science, social sciences, and engineering (Carhvalo 2021, Cumming 2005, Fraccascia 2017). In this specific case resilience is connected to the complex problems (engineering, environmental science, ecology) aforementioned, but as well to organizational and knowledge transfer resilience in the frame of academic institutions.