Sustainable design of structures: The outcomes of the COST Action C25-WG3

This lecture reports the outcomes of four years of activity carried out within the framework of the COST Action C25 by the members of the Working Group 3 (WG3). After an introduction of the project as a whole, the main results achieved by WG3 are presented and discussed. The main topics covered within WG3 dealt with life-time damage processes, life-time assessment and design, life-time monitoring and condition assessment, maintenance repair and rehabilitation as well as demolition and deconstruction of buildings and bridges. More than 50 scientists and experts coming from all over the world contributed to the work of WG3 with the aim to collect methods and practices in the field of sustainable structural design. The Working Group Members have collaboratively examined theories, methods and tools sharing past acquired knowledge and cooperating for the development of joint case studies within the project.