Eucentre is a non-profit private law foundation whose mission is to conduct research and provide training and services in earthquake and safety engineering 
Eucentre promotes science, research and innovation for the benefit of the community, offering targeted methodologies and concrete solutions for prevention, safety and resilience. It collaborates with institutions and companies to disseminate competencies for the common good.
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Eucentre carries out research activities in earthquake engineering and risk reduction through laboratory testing and numerical analysis, aiming to improve the seismic performance of structures and soils and to develop innovative seismic retrofitting techniques.
The Foundation promotes diverse and high-quality training activities aimed at academic and professional contexts, with constantly updated and innovative programs and initiatives designed to meet the evolving needs of the sector and society 
Eucentre ensures communication aimed at informing institutions, professionals, and citizens about ongoing activities and projects, with the goal of disseminating useful and accessible content and knowledge. It contributes to promoting a shared and informed culture of prevention and resilience.
A decisive aspect of risk assessment is the usability of the results obtained from the analysis. When there are extensive production sites rather than several production plants under the jurisdiction of the same entity, unified, real-time system management becomes an important added value, and this can be achieved through the implementation of a WebGIS system.
Eucentre develops web platforms with a geographical interface that allow the representation of geo-referenced databases (WebGIS) for vulnerability, risk and damage scenario assessments in real time in the event of a seismic event. These platforms facilitate the management of seismic hazard data and the calculation of shaking scenarios at the site, as well as the management of stratigraphic and topographic data for assessing local amplification effects, structural data for calculating seismic vulnerability and assessing toxic releases, and data and models for estimating environmental and health risks due to the diffusion and assimilation of toxic substances. By combining all these elements, Eucentre platforms can produce damage and risk maps (seismic, environmental and health, and/or NaTech), graphically identifying the most critical conditions.
Today, Eucentre has a substantial background in this field, built up over the years through multi-hazard analysis and the study and implementation of various WebGIS systems developed based on the needs of the Civil Protection Department and individual infrastructure operators. Thanks to this experience, Eucentre can implement such systems to evaluate and manage the results of individual plants and large-scale networks in real time.
Residential Buildings WebGIS
The Residential Building WebGIS platform is a tool that aims to assess the seismic risk and damage scenario, in real time, of the building stock of Italian municipalities. Within the platform, the building stock of Italian municipalities is classified according to the structural types and floor classes and is defined on the basis of the 2011 ISTAT census. In addition to estimating the risk and the damage scenario in real time, the Residential Building WebGIS allows to calculate the damage scenarios generated by induced seismic events. All the calculation results, as well as the data on exposure, seismic hazard and vulnerability of buildings are made available in tabular form and visible on a map once the interested municipal area has been selected.
School Buildings WebGIS
The School Buildings WebGIS platform allows the real time assessment of the seismic risk and the damage scenario of the Italian schools. Within the platform, there are three databases: the first, and broadest, is the School Registry Office, which collects the data sheets compiled in all the Italian regions. The second is the database of level II GNDT data sheets, compiled only in some regions of the country but with a greater level of detail than the data sheets of the Registry Office with regard to the identification of the structural capacity of the building. Finally, there are the summary data sheets of “level 1” or “level 2” seismic assessment for the strategic buildings for civil protection purposes or relevant in case of collapse following a seismic event, collected for about 4000 Italian school buildings.
Hospitals WebGIS
The Hospital WebGIS platform allows viewing the data relating to hospital buildings collected with different types of data sheet and the associated seismic risk. The data sheets on the platform are the “level 0”, “level 1” and “level 2” summary sheets of the seismic assessment for strategic buildings for civil protection purposes or relevant in the event of collapse following of seismic event. Furthermore, there are data sheets specially developed for the hospitals of the Lombardy Region, collected within an agreement between the Region itself and Eucentre.
Infrastructures WebGIS
The Infrastructure WebGIS is a platform that allows calculating the seismic risk and damage scenarios in real time for the infrastructures present on the Italian territory. The infrastructures taken into consideration are those of the road system, in particular bridges, tunnels and retaining structures, together with port systems and airports. The Infrastructure WebGIS platform allows also taking into account any co-seismic effects, such as landslides and, with particular reference to port areas, susceptibility to liquefaction. Downstream of a scenario calculation, the platform also allows defining alternative roads to the shorter and generally used ones, when the latter are no longer accessible due to one or more infrastructure damaged by an earthquake of a certain intensity. Finally, the Infrastructure WebGIS shows the operational level following a seismic event of ports and airports, which represent privileged entry points in case of emergency. These features are particularly useful for decision-making bodies to quickly identify the safest paths to be taken by the first responders in case of emergency.
Dams WebGIS
Eucentre has developed a WebGIS platform of the dams present on the national territory and of the seismic risk associated with the earth dams. An automatic calculation code can be used on the platform for “real-time” or “quasi-real” fast assessments of the seismic response of earth dams following a real or scenario earthquake. In the immediately subsequent stages to the earthquake, this fast assessment is useful to understand if the earthquake may have induced significant damage to a dam using a quick and binary response (i.e., whether or not there is a potential problem). More complex analysis for more precise results would require longer calculation times and a considerable amount of information and data.
