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Strengthening climate Resilience: Progress in MULTICLIMACT’s Italian Pilot at Le Carmelitane 

17. November 2025 | News

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At the Le Carmelitane building in Camerino, MULTICLIMACT partners are advancing preparations to validate innovative materials, sensors, and digital solutions. These technologies will help monitor structural health, improve indoor air quality, and assess comfort and well-being, paving the way for a more resilient built environment.

by Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM)

The MULTICLIMACT project is making significant strides in the Italian pilot, hosted at the Le Carmelitane building in Camerino, central Italy. This site will serve as a key testbed for technologies developed within the MULTICLIMACT project, showcasing how advanced solutions can strengthen resilience at the building scale by integrating both structural, environmental, and human factors.

A multidomain sensor network is being deployed to provide near real-time insights into three core areas:

  • Structural health of the building
  • Indoor environmental conditions
  • Physiological well-being of occupants

Building on the design phase completed in the first project year, partners have now installed and tested several innovative technologies:

  • Sensorised structural blocks – A sensorised element prepared with a self-sensing cement-based mortar and related measurement system developed by UNIVPM for structural health monitoring.
  • Multifunctional mortar – Designed to enhance indoor air quality, applied in one pilot room for comparison with a traditional finishing applied in an adjacent twin room.
  • Holistic comfort framework – Combining environmental and physiological sensors with a surveying methodology developed in collaboration with UKA to assess personalized indoor comfort.
  • A monitoring campaign by ENEA – through a network of sensors for the continuous monitoring of the health status of structures and indoor comfort or discomfort in close relation to climatic conditions.

The first experimental campaign to assess indoor comfort will take place in early autumn, followed by a second in winter, and a possible further one during spring, to capture seasonal variations. Data will be analysed using both standard statistical methods and machine learning algorithms to define new indices that reflect the overall physiological status of occupants.

All activities are integrated into the LIS platform, which collects, stores, and pre-processes sensors and surveys data. Once validated, the synthetic indices will also serve as early warning indicators, since the pilot is located in the seismic area of the central Italy. Importantly, the platform is being designed to interoperate with RINA’s CREMA tool, enabling synergies for a more climate-resilient built environment, particularly relevant for addressing seismic events and heat waves that may affect the region.

MULTICLIMACT is an EU-funded project aimed at safeguarding Europe’s built environment against the increasing threats of natural and climatic hazards. By uniting 25 leading European organisations, MULTICLIMACT aims to enhance resilience, sustainability, and safety for communities across the continent. Through innovative strategies, including a toolkit of 20 reliable methods and digital solutions, the project targets the urgent need for adaptive measures against floods, earthquakes, extreme weather conditions and heatwaves. Tested across four pilot sites with diverse climatic conditions, MULTICLIMACT embodies a shared vision for a safer, more resilient future, focusing on actions to reduce the impact of climate change on the built environment. For more information, please visit www.multiclimact.eu

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