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New Integrated Knowledge based approachs to the protection of cultural heritage from Earthquake-induced Risk
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Disaster Risk Reduction


International Seminar on Assessment and Improvement of Stractural Safety under Seismic Actions of Existing Structures, 2015

An International Workshop for Engineers on Earthquake Risks to Historic Buildings, 2012

Historical Buildings and Earthquakes, 2011

Second UNESCO World Heritage workshop on 'Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage', 2009
International Workshop on Risk Preparedness for Earthquakes at Cultural Heritage Sites, 2014
Michael Cohen*

 
Third International Workshop
Tower of David Museum
January 19-20, 2014

Until 2009 conservation activity of cultural sites in Israel was characterized by a disregard for the risks of earthquakes. It seems that this inattention stemmed from a lack of awareness, an absence of knowledge that is acquired for the most part by experience and an unfamiliarity with tools and actions with which it is possible to prepare for earthquakes and minimize their damage to cultural sites, such as a ‘risk map’.
 
The government of Israel’s current efforts in earthquake preparedness began with the establishment of the Interministerial Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness in 1999.
 
A decade later, in 2009, in the wake of activity by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Israel National Commission for UNESCO – Israel World Heritage Committee, the second international UNESCO workshop on risk preparedness at cultural heritage sites in the world took place in ‘Akko. This was followed by the creation of a national steering committee to address this issue and promote activity in Israel.
The international workshop to be held in January will discuss numerous aspects of earthquake preparedness at cultural heritage sites. It is intended for professionals engaged in heritage conservation: engineers, planners, conservation architects and conservators.
 
The Objectives of the Workshop:

· To raise awareness of the need for earthquake preparedness at cultural heritage sites in Israel.
· To share existing knowledge about technologies for dealing with anticipated damage and for minimizing damage to cultural heritage assets during an earthquake.
· To learn from the Italian experience in dealing with earthquakes.
· To promote cooperation with academic institutions in Italy in the field of cultural heritage protection.
 
This is the third workshop to be held in Israel, prior to which two workshops were convened in 2011 and 2012, and it will take place under the auspices of the Interministerial Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness, the Italian Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the University of Padua, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Society for the Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites.
 
Guest lecturers:
 
Ing. Caterina Rubino, Gen. Secretariat of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
Prof. Mauro Dolce, DPC - Department of Civil Protection, Italy
Prof. Donatella Fiorani, University of Roma "La Sapienza"
Ing. Luca Ponticelli, the Italian National Firefighters Agency
Prof. Claudio Modena, University of Padova, Department of Civil Engineering
Prof. Francesca da Porto, University of Padova, Department of Civil Engineering 
 
In addition to the Italian experts, Israeli professionals will present related activities in the country.
 
Workshop Steering Committee:
 
Dr. Avi Shapira, Chairman of the Interministerial Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness, Ministry of Home Front Defense
Professor Claudio Modena, University of Padova
Ing. Yaacov Schaffer
Michael Cohen, Conservation Administration, Israel Antiquities Authority
 
Workshop Presentations:
Dr. F. Carapezza and Ing. C. Rubino
Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
 
Prof. Mauro Dolce
Italian Department of Civil Protection
 
Adv. Gideon Koren
ICOMOS
 
Ing. Luca Ponticelli
Italian National Firefighters Agency
 
Prof. Claudio Modena
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Prof. Donatella Fiorani
University of Roma "La Sapienza"
 
COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY and CH MINISTRY: EMERGENCY ACTIVITIES and RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
Prof. Francesca da Porto
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
RISK MAPS of ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES in ISRAEL
Michael Cohen
Israel Antiquities Authority, Conservation Department
 
SEISMIC RISK PREVENTION of ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE PROMOTED by the ITALIAN CIVIL PROTECTION
Prof. Mauro Dolce
Italian Department of Civil Protectio
Prof. Francesca da Porto and Prof. Claudio Modena
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES- MONITORING: the CASE of the DAVID TOWER
Dr. Ing. Filippo Lorenzoni
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
LEGAL ASPECTS of CONSERVATION
Adv. Yoram Barsela
Legal Advisor to the IAA
Prof. Claudio Modena
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
NIKER PROJECT: MAIN OBJECTIVES, ACHIEVMENTS, and DATA BASE of INTERVENTIONS
Prof. Francesca da Porto
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
SEISMIC RETROFITTING of BUILDINGS USING ENERGY DISSIPATION DEVICES
Ass. Prof. Oren Lavan
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
POST- EARTHQUAKE EMERGENCY INTERVENTIONS for the SAFEGUARD of CH
Ing. Luca Ponticelli
Italian National Firefighters Agency
 
RECONSTRUCTION PLANS: CASE STUDIES in ITALY
Ing. Claudia Marson and Ing. Sabrina Taffarel
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
ANALYSIS and INTERVENTION on AGGREGATES of HISTORICAL CENTERS: a CASE STUDY in L'AQUILA
Prof. Francesca da Porto
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering 
Dr. Ing. Filippo Lorenzoni
University of Padova
Dpt. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
 
ASSESSMENT of HISTORIC EARTHQUAKES from BACK ANALYSIS of OLD MASONRY STRUCTURES
Prof. Yossef Hatzor and Dr. Ronnie Kamai
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva
 
DYNAMIC ANALYZES in HISTORICAL BUILDINGS- VARIES CASE STUDIES
Ing. Yaacov Schaffer

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* Risk Map Project Manager, Israel Antiquities Authority, Conservation Department
 
 
 
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