DURASOFT project
Programme: INTERREG ITALY-SLOVENIA
Priority: 1 Promoting innovation capacities for a more competitive area
Project title: Innovative technologies to improve the durability of traditional wooden structures in socio-ecologically sensitive environments
Acronym: DURASOFT
Duration: 2020 - 2022
Total budget: EUR 882.333
ISMAR budget: EUR 165.920
Web site: at work
Summary:
Fishing and agro-pastoral activities, in the Italian lagoons and in the Slovenian highlands , have produced, in the course of millennia unique types of housing in which the use of wood is predominant. They are associated with wooden service infrastructures such as piers, moorings, piling and fences. The existence of these structures and the associated cultural heritage, however, depends on constant maintenance that is no longer economically sustainable in humid and coastal environments where the degradation of wood is massive and fast. To overcome this, over the last century, impacting protection techniques and unsuitable materials have been used. Hence, the project will test some innovative techniques developed and produced by the partners aimed to increase the durability of traditional wood species and products, with special focus on soft wood. The treated wood can be used, structures in socio-ecologically sensitive environments within the Adriatic-Alpine area, in traditional buildings and service, making them economically and environmentally sustainable. The environmental compatibility of these techniques will be assessed in the light of the most recent scientific knowledge subject to protocols developed by the partners and transferable to the entire program area
Contact person in ISMAR: davide.tagliapietra@ve.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine
- Università di Lubiana
- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
- Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Primorska Gospordarska Zbornica
- Silvaprodukt
- Agriteco SC
