MIMESIS

Materiali smart sensorizzati e sostenibili per il costruito storico

Principal Investigator: Michele Macchiarola
Involved personnel: Sabrina Gualtieri, Francesca d’Aniello, Francesca Gambino,

Starting date:  05/07/2019
Duration: 24 months
Total funding: 1,180,929.95 €
Action: POR FESR 2014 2020 ASSE 1 AZIONE 1.2.2
Project Coordinator: Luca Laghi (Certimac Soc. Cons. A.R.L.)
Consortium: Certimac; CNR-ISTEC; CIRI-EC; Centro Ceramico; SIS-TER S.r.l.
Official website: https://www.mimesis-project.eu/
Involved companies: Kerakoll S.p.A.; Litokol S.p.A.; Sgubbi Italiana S.r.l.; Gattelli Laterizi S.p.A.; Tenenga S.r.l.; Sestosensor S.r.l.; Banca della Calce S.r.l.; Leonardo S.r.l.

The project intends to provide concrete answers to the problem of improving the performance of the historical built heritage by improving the effectiveness of recovery interventions and allowing an easier control of their effectiveness over time. The introduction of innovative smart systems will allow to optimize costs and management of the building system during operation.

The building heritage considered is mainly characterized by masonry buildings, with building technology consolidated over the centuries and consisting mainly of traditional materials: bricks, mortars and lime-based plasters, ceramic materials. The efficiency, performance and durability of these materials and of the entire building heritage depend on the ability of targeted interventions to slow down the degradation and natural aging, intrinsic in every material.

The MIMESIS project aims to improve the performance of the existing building heritage through the use of eco-sustainable smart technologies that provide for the integration between traditional materials and sensors.
Thanks to this integration it will be possible to identify the phenomena of degradation in the walls in a preventive and predictive manner so as to intervene promptly, avoiding damage and improving the indoor well-being and energy efficiency of the building as a whole.

It the specific objectives of the project are:
• the development of “sensor-based” materials capable of continuously monitoring specific predictive parameters of the degradation taking place in the walls;
• the redefinition of products commonly used in construction in order to prepare them for the integration of specific sensors;
• experimental validation both in the laboratory and in situ of the functionality, effectiveness and durability of these smart systems.

Expected results :
• Development of sensor solutions and the relative measurement chain, one per type of material tested (plasters, mortars, bricks, adhesives, reinforcements)
• Realization of sensorized masonry prototypes
• Development of an experimental validation protocol for SMART systems
• Implementation of guidelines for the installation and maintenance of sensor solutions
• Preparation of a demonstration laboratory (both virtual and real) as a tool to accelerate the technological transfer of the developed solutions.