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BIM and the construction sector have long been an inseparable pair: in many European Countries it is a consolidated practice while in others there is a big debate about it but. Although there are important signs of a turning point, it still does not seem to be really feasible. In Italy, the leverage for transformation is certainly the public works sector, but this is not enough: to really talk about a whole digitization of the AEC sector, it is necessary to “attract” the private sector, where more than 50% of investments are invested. The chapter will attempt, starting from an Italian framework overview, to assess the main perceived obstacles of the applicability of a BIM model for facility management. The tool chosen by the authors as a preliminary approach to the problem, the SWOT analysis, allows an effective synthesis of the strengths and weaknesses resulting from such implementation.
Umberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo. Digital Twin for Maintenance Information Management. Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering 2021, 575 -601.
AMA StyleUmberto Mecca, Giuseppe Moglia, Francesco Prizzon, Manuela Rebaudengo. Digital Twin for Maintenance Information Management. Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering. 2021; ():575-601.
Chicago/Turabian StyleUmberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo. 2021. "Digital Twin for Maintenance Information Management." Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering , no. : 575-601.
By now, it is clear the built environment could play an important role in fighting climate change, since it accounts for around 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions. Generally speaking, Italian residential stock is over 50 years old and around 16% of that needs large interventions due to its poor maintenance condition. So, the maintenance in this context can play a pivotal role in acheiving both energy efficiency and asset valorization. Introduced by a reference framework for the question in the title, this paper presents the case study: a portion of a working-class neighborhoods near the metropolitan city of Turin, marked by very recurrent typologies for the period (early seventies). The local real estate market is discussed to investigate the extraordinary maintenance impact on the property values: the paper considers the market value increase due to the energy class upgrade and the external look improvement. Individual owners putting money on this group of works get a very cost-effective investment and take advantage of Italian legislation supporting these kinds of interventions: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and in turn greater than the cost assumed for the renovation work.
Umberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Paolo Piantanida; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo; Antonio Vottari. How Energy Retrofit Maintenance Affects Residential Buildings Market Value? Sustainability 2020, 12, 5213 .
AMA StyleUmberto Mecca, Giuseppe Moglia, Paolo Piantanida, Francesco Prizzon, Manuela Rebaudengo, Antonio Vottari. How Energy Retrofit Maintenance Affects Residential Buildings Market Value? Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5213.
Chicago/Turabian StyleUmberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Paolo Piantanida; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo; Antonio Vottari. 2020. "How Energy Retrofit Maintenance Affects Residential Buildings Market Value?" Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5213.
The Italian way of thinking about maintenance is too often one-sided. Indeed, it is considered not so much as a useful practice to prevent the occurrence of a fault (ex ante), but as an intervention to solve it (ex post). Analyzing the legislation relating to the construction sector, it can be seen that it does not clearly define the responsibilities, timescales and methods in which maintenance interventions must be planned and carried out. For this reason, this practice is still very weak compared, for example, to the industrial sector, where it is an established practice. Currently, the complexity of reading the maintenance plans drawn up by designers and the considerable costs associated with maintenance operations discourage owners and managers from even carrying out preliminary inspection operations. This research aims to stimulate these stakeholders to carry out inspection operations regularly, highlighting their costs and benefits. In particular, working on a case study in Piedmont, the costs of visual inspections carried out in the traditional way are compared with those that would be incurred if unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were used. Finally, the collateral benefits of inspections carried out with UAVs are highlighted.
Rachele Grosso; Umberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo. Collecting Built Environment Information Using UAVs: Time and Applicability in Building Inspection Activities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4731 .
AMA StyleRachele Grosso, Umberto Mecca, Giuseppe Moglia, Francesco Prizzon, Manuela Rebaudengo. Collecting Built Environment Information Using UAVs: Time and Applicability in Building Inspection Activities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (11):4731.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRachele Grosso; Umberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo. 2020. "Collecting Built Environment Information Using UAVs: Time and Applicability in Building Inspection Activities." Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4731.
The decentralization of the production sector crisis following industries in the suburbs have generated a multitude of empty containers in the medium-large Italian cities, which are abandoned, unsafe, and often dangerous for the community. From this arises the need to recover them and transform them into something else. This is not always possible or interesting for the subjects involved in the transformation. When the abandoned space is (even if only partially) polluted, then any hypothesis of transformation is stopped due to the high impact of decontamination costs, which greatly compromise the profitability of the investment. This paper deals with this issue focusing on a complex case study involving the abandoned area and the buildings of a former paint mill in the center of a typical city in the Turin metropolitan area. The suggested hypothesis is to act only on building components and external areas without any ground modification because of its contamination. Moreover, the new planned use (energy production from renewable sources to supply part of the public administration’s needs) does not foresee neither a stable presence of people nor a further consumption of land. The technical analysis of community energy needs and the subsequent economic and financial study lead to a financial sustainability over a period of about 25 years.
Umberto Mecca; Paolo Piantanida; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo. Impact of Brownfield Sites on Local Energy Production as Resilient Response to Land Contamination: A Case Study in Italy. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2328 .
AMA StyleUmberto Mecca, Paolo Piantanida, Francesco Prizzon, Manuela Rebaudengo. Impact of Brownfield Sites on Local Energy Production as Resilient Response to Land Contamination: A Case Study in Italy. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (8):2328.
Chicago/Turabian StyleUmberto Mecca; Paolo Piantanida; Francesco Prizzon; Manuela Rebaudengo. 2019. "Impact of Brownfield Sites on Local Energy Production as Resilient Response to Land Contamination: A Case Study in Italy." Sustainability 11, no. 8: 2328.
The New Code of Contracts and the new Programming Ministerial Decree state that all unfinished public works must be included by the contracting authorities in their three-year Programme to complete, even downsizing or transforming them by changing their destination, provided that they do not remain unfinished. While the request certainly seems to be acceptable, having committed (for now) public money in an unsuccessful way, one might wonder how credible it is to complete it. First of all for the lack of funds, which for most of them was the reason that interrupted the implementation process; then for the consistency between needs and interventions, for the condition of abandonment and for the period of construction. Can public-private partnerships, even in the new forms provided for by the Code, be a (at least partial) solution to the problem? The paper presents the first results of an ongoing search aiming to define the national situation after the last census in July 2017, to identify the categories of works that are largely “not completed” on national areas and classifies them in hot/cold/ones, and to measure, with a first wide mesh sieve, the suitability and applicability of the PPP instrument.
Manuela Rebaudengo; Giuseppe Innocente; Angelica Crisafulli. PPPs Palatability to Complete Unfinished Public Works in Italy. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 635 -642.
AMA StyleManuela Rebaudengo, Giuseppe Innocente, Angelica Crisafulli. PPPs Palatability to Complete Unfinished Public Works in Italy. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():635-642.
Chicago/Turabian StyleManuela Rebaudengo; Giuseppe Innocente; Angelica Crisafulli. 2018. "PPPs Palatability to Complete Unfinished Public Works in Italy." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 635-642.
In recent years, drawing up the maintenance plan for a building has proved to be a theoretical practice, which has been expressed in the indication of a multiplicity of interventions more for caution reasons than for real needs. In this way, the document (mandatory by the Italian law both for public and private works) has been interpreted as a formal requirement: it must be part of the project, without any particular operational interest. So, the maintenance plans are more often "standard plans", not directing the user towards a specific maintenance strategy and thus consolidating the common thesis that reality is different. The paper compares, with reference to two xxx of study (offices and residence), the planned maintenance actions and those carried out, with an indication of the difference between expected and incurred costs.
Manuela Rebaudengo; Paolo Piantanida. Maintenance of buildings: Italian examples of deviations between planned and incurred costs. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2018, 351, 012013 .
AMA StyleManuela Rebaudengo, Paolo Piantanida. Maintenance of buildings: Italian examples of deviations between planned and incurred costs. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2018; 351 (1):012013.
Chicago/Turabian StyleManuela Rebaudengo; Paolo Piantanida. 2018. "Maintenance of buildings: Italian examples of deviations between planned and incurred costs." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 351, no. 1: 012013.
The new Code on Contracts regulations reaffirmed the central role of assessment in procedures for public works construction. However, it has significantly distorted the sense of the previous rules where the preliminary investment assessment was essential and was implemented through the feasibility study. What happened, then, to the feasibility studies? Maybe the intentions of Legislative Decree no. 50/2016 were mixed, but the preliminary project and the feasibility study was erased, now at least formally. Why has the legislature felt the need to eliminate such an important study? So far was the feasibility study to identify the most proper management aspects, not the preliminary project, not the final draft or the executive project. The Italian tradition has unfortunately too often led to the creation of works with no real requirement to be satisfied without worrying about the sustainability of the operating costs. The only thought is on allocated resources available for construction. This has generated works partially unused, slightly used, and/or often obsolescent because the contracting authorities try to confirm that the asset portion is actually used while decreasing resources. This paper focuses on multi-annual programming, which has seen the most relevant changes while investigating the economic and procedural implications consequential to the new Code.
Manuela Rebaudengo; Francesco Prizzon. Assessing the Investments Sustainability After the New Code on Public Contracts. Computer Vision 2017, 10409, 473 -484.
AMA StyleManuela Rebaudengo, Francesco Prizzon. Assessing the Investments Sustainability After the New Code on Public Contracts. Computer Vision. 2017; 10409 ():473-484.
Chicago/Turabian StyleManuela Rebaudengo; Francesco Prizzon. 2017. "Assessing the Investments Sustainability After the New Code on Public Contracts." Computer Vision 10409, no. : 473-484.