PRESERVATION, ENHANCEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Research activities related to the preservation of cultural heritage, ranging in a broad sense from the individual “monument” to the architectural and urban heritage, to smaller town centres, to archeological sites and areas of landscape interest. Research activities concern in particular the critical and historical knowledge of structures, preservation interventions, problems related to the degradation of materials and structures, different implementations of compatible interventions, valorisation and sustainable use of cultural heritage, risks which endanger cultural heritage. The ITC Institute has recently suggested considering the town centre of L’Aquila among the global sites endangered by the seismic risk of of the “2014 Watch”; this suggestion was accepted by the World Monuments Fund on October 2013.