Resilience and sustainability for educational buildings

Abstract

The COVID pandemic emphasized the prominent role of accessibility to educational infrastructures in societal performance. This identifies educational buildings as a main target of resilience studies. In turn, the word “sustainability” summarizes a societal need gathering momentum in the last few years. It is becoming the focus of several governmental programs.

The two concepts, resilience and sustainability, are first introduced, as a result of their evolution, in a technical context. In this framework, the study narrows its purposes to cover educational buildings. The goal is to emphasize, among the several aspects one has to consider, those that predominate in the design of educational infrastructures.