Projects
RubbeFREE – Investigating the potential release and toxicity of microplastics from Rubberised Asphalt Mixtures
- Period : 2023 – 2025
- Lead Researcher : Dr Gaspare Giancontieri
- Team: Dr Gaspare Giancontieri, Dr Davide Lo Presti
- Partner : Ecopneus (ITA), University Gustave Eiffel (FRA), University of Milano (ITA), Waste and chemicals (ITA)
- Website : https://rubberfree.unipa.it
RubbeRAP – Investigating the multi-recyclability of rubberised asphalt mixtures
- Period : 2020 – 2023
- Lead Researcher : Dr Gaspare Giancontieri
- Team: Dr Gaspare Giancontieri, Dr Davide Lo Presti
- Partner : Ecopneus (ITA), University Gustave Eiffel (FRA)
- Website : https://rubberap.unipa.it
Rheomix -Enhanced mixing rheometry for highly heterogeneous materials
- Period : 2019 – 2020
- Lead Researcher : Dr Gaspare Giancontieri
- Team: Dr Gaspare Giancontieri, Dr Davide Lo Presti
- Partner : Anton Paar
- Website : https://rheomix.unipa.it
REcircularPAV – Towards circular asphalt mixtures
- Period : 2021 – 2023
- Lead Researcher : Dr Patrícia Hennig Osmari
- Team: Dr Patrícia Hennig Osmari, Dr Davide Lo Presti, Dr Vincenzo Fiore
- Partners :Univeristy of Granada (SPA), Eiffage (FRA)
- Website : https://recircularpav.unipa.it/
PavementLCM – Life cycle management of green asphalt mixtures and road pavement
- Period : 2017 – 2020
- Lead Researcher : Dr D. Lo Presti
- Team: G. Buttitta, K. Mantalovas, D. Lo Presti
- Partner : University of Palermo (ITA), University of Nottingham (UK), The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (SWE), Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research (NL)
- Website : https://www.pavementlcm.eu/
CRAB4OERE – Cold Recycled Asphalt Bases for Optimised Energy & Ressource Efficient Pavements
- Period : 2018 – 2020
- Lead Researcher : Dr Davide Lo Presti
- Team: Dr Davide Lo Presti, Gaspare Giancontieri, Gabriella Buttitta, Konstantinos Mantalovas ,Chiara Mignini
- Partners : Universität Kassel (Coordinator, Germany); IFSTTAR (France); Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (UK); VTI (Sweden), UPdM (Italy
- Website : www.cedr.eu/
SMARTI ETN – Sustainable Multifunctional Automated and Resilient Transport Infrastructures
- Period : 2017 – 2021
- Lead Researcher : Dr Davide Lo Presti
- Team: Dr Davide Lo Presti, Dr Gaspare Giancontieri, Dr Konstantinos Matalovas, Dr Ronald Roberts, Dr Iain Dunn
- Partner : Univeristy of Palermo (ITA), University of Nottinghmam (UK), University of Granada (SPA), University Gustave Eiffel (FRA), University of Denmark (DEN), Eiffage (FRA), Aecom (UK)
- Website : http://www.smartietn.eu/
