ERCOLANO – VILLA DEI PAPIRI Ist Convention

PREMISE

The Soprintendenza appointed CIBeC to carry out a geotechnical study on the stability of the scarps, a feasibility study of a pedestrian walkway halfway up the existing scarp and a study in view of planning and carrying out the archaeological excavation of the first floor of Villa dei Papiri

CLIENT

Soprintendenza Archaeologica di Pompei

OBJECTIVES

• Evaluation of the security of the scarps
• Project and implementation of programmed archaeological excavation of the first floor of Villa dei Papiri
• Geotechnical-construction feasibility study of a walkway halfway up the existing scarp in the Villa area

PHASES

• Geological report on the site of Ercolano
• Geotechnical investigation at Ercolano, with stratigraphies and probes
• Geotechnical laboratory tests
• Triaxial stress tests on samples of grey tuff from Villa dei Papiri
• Geotechnical report on stability of scarps
• Note on securisation of area affected by a falling block
• Report on design and implementation of archaeological excavation and lay-out of the first floorof Villa dei Papiri
• Report on geotechnical and construction feasibility of a walkway halfway up the existing scarp in the Villa dei Papiri area, Ercolano.

PERIOD: January 2004 – July 2006