Forlani: "Training engineers and surveyors prepared in this sense is one of our goals"
Sixteen students from the University of Studies of the Republic of San Marino an opportunity to study in the field, together with academics and operators, the causes of the phenomena, their evolution and emergency management methods, with a particular focus on the viability and for the benefit of the communities involved.
Specifically, on Thursday 15 June those enrolled in the Civil Engineering degree courses, together with colleagues following the three-year course in Construction and Land Management, visited three landslides in the Municipality of Sant'Agata Feltria together with Filippo Forlani, professor of the University of San Marino, and Maurizio Bocca, surveyor of the Road Infrastructure Service of the Province of Rimini.
During the day, which received the recognition of the Mayor Goffredo Polidori, "we focused on the one hand on understanding the gravitational processes in an area dotted with landslides with regard to the activation following events of this magnitude and exceptionality, and on the other , without losing sight of the planning, on the emergency activities involving the managers involved in the entities called to intervene to re-establish connections and functionality”, explains Forlani, who teaches Prospecting of geotechnical systems. "These are operations in which they are called into question, often with urgent deadlines and in the wake of confrontations involving various institutions, technicians on several levels, operators and first aid means".
The experience brought the students into contact with places and people who could, one day, involve their professional career: "The current climate change will lead to extreme events of this type in the future as well, and this translates into the need to figures prepared to deal with landslides both in the preventive aspects, such as for example in the planning of remediation, and in emergency management and monitoring activities. Training engineers and surveyors trained in this sense – concludes Forlani, accompanied by professor Michele Bacciocchi – is one of the objectives of the University of San Marino and is affirming itself as an urgency dictated by the forecast of increasingly frequent and intense phenomena”.
