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Modeling and map** solar energy production with photovoltaic panels on Politecnico di Torino university campus
Educational institutions have significant impacts on the society and environment they are inhabiting, and they can have a big role in influencing...
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Leonardo Drone Contest Autonomous Drone Competition: Overview, Results, and Lessons Learned from Politecnico di Milano Team
In this paper, the Politecnico di Milano solutions proposed for the Leonardo Drone Contest (LDC) are presented. The Leonardo Drone Contest is an...
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Tangible Tools in Mathematics for Engineering Students: Experimental Activity at Politecnico di Torino
In the article, we present the tasks of the Maths lab at Politecnico di Torino that we tested for the first time in the academic year 2018–19, which...
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Castello di Mirafiori: Reconstructive Modelling and WebAR
The project is born from a research agreement between the Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino and the Municipality of...
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Energy Audit and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to Identify Sustainable Strategies in the University Campuses: Application to Politecnico di Torino
Universities play a headship role among entities that invest in technological progress and intend to increase education in sustainable culture...
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Glass–Ceramic Sealants for Solid Oxide Cells Research at Politecnico di Torino: An Overview on Design, Sinter-Crystallization, Integration and Interfacial Issues
Solid oxide cells (SOCs) devices are of great interest for effective power generation and for highly efficient conversion of electricity to hydrogen,...
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Sustainable Development Goals and Current Sustainability Actions at Politecnico di Torino
Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, the agenda of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents a new coherent way of thinking about...
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Teaching Appropriate Technologies with the Applied Mechanics Approach to Sensitize Students to Their Future Role in Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
Historically, the engineering courses tend to emphasize the purely technical aspects, reinforcing in students the idea of the duality between...
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Introduction: Risks and Opportunities for the Valtellina Mountain Region in the Face of the Olympic Perspective
This introductory chapter depicts the goals, structure and contents of the edited book Beyond the 2026 Winter Olympic Games: Sustainable Scenarios...
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Residual Structural Performance of Existing PC Bridges: Recent Advances of the BRIDGE|50 Research Project
BRIDGE|50 is a research project aimed at investigating the residual structural performance of a 50-year-old concrete bridge recently dismantled in...
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Integrated Assessments and Energy Retrofit: The Contribution of the Energy Center Lab of the Politecnico di Torino
Traditionally, local energy planning has been carried out following a sectorial approach, neglecting the long-term effects of energy policies, not...
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MiraMap: A Digital Tool for Civic Engagement in Urban Regeneration
MiraMap is a project carried out by the authors in a multidisciplinary research team at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). It aims to examine both the...
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Architectures for Rapid Prototy** of Model-Based Robot Controllers
Rapid Prototy** (RP) in control design can be defined as a computerassisted process aimed at recursively validating dynamic models of complex...
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BACK TO THE PAST. Narrative and Storytelling Learning in a Digital Modeling Reconstruction Process
This essay describes the most recent and novel results of the fruitful collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and Fondazione Museo delle...
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From Knowledge to Land-Use Planning: Local Resilient Experience in the Territory of the Municipality of Mappano
The chapter illustrates the result of the analysis on the municipality of Mappano, located in northern Turin (Italy). The studies were carried out as...
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A heuristic approach based on Leiden rankings to identify outliers: evidence from Italian universities in the European landscape
We propose an innovative use of the Leiden Rankings (LR) in institutional management. Although LR only consider research output of major universities...
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The PoliTO–UniRoma1 database of cyclic and dynamic laboratory tests: assessment of empirical predictive models
The soil nonlinear hysteretic behaviour is usually described, in the moderate strain range, through the shear modulus reduction and material dam**...
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Final Remarks on the Implementation of the Post-pandemic City and the Role of Technology
This final chapter of the book highlights some major results of the Post Un-Lock research project conducted inside the SDG11Lab and the Responsible...
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Enhancing the accountability and comparability of different campuses’ energy profiles through an energy cluster approach
International sustainability ranking systems generally set criteria in order to monitor global achievement of universities in terms of...
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Quantitative assessment of environmental impacts at the urban scale: the ecological footprint of a university campus
This paper explores the consumption-based ecological footprint method and its application aiming at a quantitative assessment of the sustainability...
