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This document is the Management Plan for the LIFE IMPETUS project. Its purpose is toestablish the project management organisation, processes and standards to be followedthroughout the project life cycle regarding project management.This project management plan is a deliverable of action E.1 and it is regarded as a livingdocument in nature, to be updated whenever a change in project requirements occurs ora risk or unexpected deviation from the planned course of action is encountered.Although the due date for this plan was April 30th 2016, the final document could only bedelivered in September, after the EASME/EC approval of the Amendment to GrantAgreement (submitted in February) which altered the project consortium. This had noeffect what so ever on the project management effectiveness and efficiency given that itsInitial Draft, as well as the excel files supporting its application, namely the monitoringscheme protocol and the financial report and statement, and the templates (timesheets,deliverable template, etc.) were produced on time.

In the first 9 months of the project, two significant organisational changes were solved (section 3.3), 14 out of the 20 actions were started as planned, the Partnership Agreement was prepared, approved and signed, 5 deliverables were produced and 7 milestones reached. All project management tools are in place and the beneficiary teams are formed. Further, the PhC regular monitoring in the WWTPs has started and the project dissemination far exceeded the objectives for this period, expressing the project interest to the target audiences. 15% of the first pre-financing payment was absorbed so far and 100% of it is expected to be executed in early 2017.Overall, the project in progressing as scheduled, the current delays (explained in section 3.2) being expected to be overcome before the end of the year.

The LIFE IMPETUS project comprises an action (E.4 After-LIFE Plan) aiming to define apost-project exploitation plan, envisaging the valorisation of its results and the lessonslearnt. Since this action is due in June 2019, the consortium decided to start developingfrom the early stages of the project a detailed plan for the replicability and transferability.The current document is integrated in action D.1 Dissemination and will contribute to thefollowing deliverables:- Layman report (action D.1);- After-LIFE Plan (action E.4).This plan was not initially foreseen as a deliverable in the Grant Agreement, but wasasked to be prepared in the EASME letter (September 2016) following the first monitoringvisit to the project.

This report is part of the project

The main objectives of WP4

Ao longo dos anos recentes, a atividade desenvolvida nas áreas de engenharia tem-se apoiado cada vez mais na utilização de ferramentas de software apropriadas. Estas ferramentas são muitas vezes desenvolvidas especificamente para dar resposta a um problema muito bem definido, faltando-lhes a capacidade para resolver de forma eficiente problemas semelhantes computacionalmente mais exigentes. A paralelização destas ferramentas é uma das abordagens existentes para permitir aumentar a sua eficiência e aumentar a complexidade dos problemas admissíveis. Este relatório introduz o programa ParFludan, um programa paralelo para análise estrutural pelo método dos elementos finitos, que surgiu da necessidade de melhorar o desempenho do programa Fludan-RAS. Executado no cluster Medusa do LNEC, este novo programa permite tratar problemas de maior complexidade do que o original, com melhorias significativas ao nível dos tempos de execução. Além da descrição do processo de paralelização do programa original e das tecnologias para tal utilizadas, é também feita a análise do programa desenvolvido e são dadas instruções para a sua utilização, com o objetivo não só de facilitar a utilização do ParFludan como também deprovidenciar algumas linhas de orientação para a paralelização de outros programas em condições semelhantes.

Workpackage 12 deals with modelling MAR solution

This document presents the developments in the first 18 months of activity of LNEC in PIANO project (Policies, Innovation, and Network for Enhancing Opportunities for China-Europe Water Cooperation) financed by the European Union (Horizon 2020) and the Chinese Secretariat of China Water Platform Europe (China-Europe Water Platform, CEWP, http://cewp.org/), as key lessons learned from the Portuguese participation, led by Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC). PIANO project aims to strengthen cooperation in the field of water between Europe and China, promoting the creation of networks of enterprises (including SMEs), entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, regulators and funding agencies to create social opportunities and business. The PIANO project objectives are (1) strengthening and expanding the existing network of the China Europe Water Platform (CEWP) to cover all relevant actors for water research and innovation relevant for China Europe water cooperation; (2) identification of European technological water innovations and areas for joint development of technological solutions that have a potential for implementation in China; (3)identification of drivers and barriers and elaborating strategies for overcoming such barriers and taking advantage of drivers for implementation and replication of technological water innovations; (4) promotion of knowledge exchange and policy dialogue to build an enabling environment for the uptake of technological water innovations with a great potential for implementation, further replication and market uptake in China; (5) consolidation of a shared strategic research and innovation agenda between Europe and China in the water domain; and, (6) effective dissemination and mainstreaming of the project results within China, Europe and worldwide to various target audiences. The priority research areas focus on societal challenges related to Agricultural water management (WP2_1.a), to Municipal water management (WP2_1.b), to Industrial water management (WP2_1.c), to river basin management highlighting the problem of floods (WP2_1.d) and to the Water for energy nexus (WP2_1.e). The project consortium is composed of nine partners of which eight are located in eight different EU Member States and one is based in China. The consortium encompasses partners from high level academic institutions and experienced research institutes to non for profit organizations, from European umbrella associations to a commercial SME and a large international company. The PIANO partners are supported in their activities by many Chinese institutes and research centres. LNEC leads the development of tasks (WP2_1d) and (WP2_1.e). In the case of the task "Water for Energy" LNEC has the support of EDP / Labelec. Within the activities led by LNEC an inventory of about 50 technological water innovative solutions (TWI) was developed in the thematic areas WP2_1.d and WP2_1.e. Later, following several prioritization criteria, 20 TWIs of each of both thematic areas were ranked in descending order of suitability and potential deployment opportunities in China. They are presented for discussion.

The construction and operation of dams, associated with the use of water resources, aim generically at the energy producing, water supplying and, in some cases, flow regulating and flood controlling. Considering the dam dimensions and the potential risks associated with its collapse, due to the occupation of the downstream valley, and to the costs of the construction, maintenance and rehabilitation, the use of probabilistic principles in its design, as it is already performed for other type of structures, is justified. With this thesis work plan, it is intended to establish a methodology for the structural safety analysis of concrete dams based on the definition of safety evaluation criteria, considering the partial safety factors obtained through structural reliability analysis. For that purpose, the uncertainties involved in the safety of concrete dams shall be statistically quantified, through the definition of probabilistic distributions for loads and material properties, using, in addition to the elements found in the literature, the information available at LNEC about those features, resulting from the monitoring of the concrete dam behavior during the construction, first filling and operation periods. Later, the partial safety factors shall be calibrated analysing the outcomes of the structural reliability analysis performed to models of concrete dams, representative of the standard solutions for different design situations. It is expected that this work contributes to the discussion on the design criteria of concrete dams and can be integrated into future revisions of the Portuguese dam safety regulation.