Experiments is a service maintained and developed by the University of Pavia in collaboration with the EUCENTRE Foundation, IUSS Pavia and with technical support from the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation to provide open access to experimental test data on the performance of buildings and infrastructure. This data has been generated by many experimental tests in Europe and can be used for the validation and calibration of numerical models required to assess the vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure. The web service offers a taxonomy-based search engine for seamless and efficient exploration of datasets. Users can not only access data through a user-friendly interface but also programmatically, ensuring flexibility in integration. Emphasising community collaboration, our platform welcomes open experimental data contributions, assigning each dataset a Creative Commons CC-BY licence with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for proper attribution and recognition.

The RESSLab-hub, which was developed by the Resilient Steel Structures Laboratory (RESSLab) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), provides open-access structural performance databases along with state-of-the-art interative component modeling and fragility functions with the overarching goal to advance knowledge for minimizing the earthquake risk of steel structures. The available data can facilitate studies to benchmark the seismic performance of infrastructure systems, to develop standardized predictive models for maintenance and life-cycle assessment of our built environment and to further develop our codes and standards.

The Design service implements a collaborative framework to perform the simulated design of buildings following the past and current seismic design procedures in Europe. It utilises open-source software and data to allow the engineering community in Europe to contribute to the database of design codes already implemented. The framework generates a Building Class Information Model (BCIM) for a given taxonomy to represent several possible building realisations and reflect the building-to-building variability. Each realisation is processed with an iterative simulated design procedure, and the final building design details (e.g., reinforcement, dimensions of columns and beams) are stored in the Building Design Information Model (BDIM). Numerical models are created in OpenSees .tcl and .py. They can be used to perform non-linear analyses of the designed buildings and obtain probabilistic seismic demand models, which will ultimately support the development of fragility functions and vulnerability models for residential buildings in Europe.

Embodied Carbon is a service maintained and developed by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation that provides access to data and maps of the embodied carbon associated with the replacement of residential, commercial and industrial buildings around the world. This service can be used in various studies on the built environment, such as: i) to provide benchmark data on the embodied carbon of different building typologies; ii) to assess the environmental impact of natural hazards on the built environment; and iii) to assess the impact on the global carbon budget of different forecasts of urbanisation.