The civil engineering sector operates within a complex ecosystem of stakeholders, requiring efficient management and maintenance of structural and infrastructural assets. In this context, there is an increasing need for robust tools to track critical events (e.g., alerts, unusual behaviors) and support decision-making processes related to maintenance and interventions. At the same time, ensuring secure and prompt payments is essential for timely and effective responses. This paper investigated the potential of smart contracts, integrated with blockchain technology, to automate and optimize asset management and maintenance processes. The proposed framework examines how these technologies can enhance operational efficiency, security, and event traceability, providing a structured approach for both routine operations and emergency interventions. Although smart contracts have been widely applied in the construction phase of infrastructure projects, their use in long-term asset management remains largely unexplored. As a conceptual study, this work does not present a quantitative analysis but instead lays the groundwork for future research and real-world applications of blockchain-based smart contracts in infrastructure management and safety procedures.

The potential of Virtual Heritage, with particular attention to the field of knowledge dissemination, not only in the educational and scientific field, of museum collections, which are very often not accessible, have long been at the centre of the digitisation policies of major national and international institutions. Within this framework, the proposed research is part of a broader research, involving scientific figures from different disciplinary fields for the definition of a workflow for the 3D acquisition, digitisation and creation of a virtual model of miniatures of architectural artefacts kept at the Polytechnic of Turin. The paper describes part of the experimentation conducted for the creation of 3D surveys carried out using different tools, such as a portable LIDAR, Mantis F6, a low cost LIDAR, iPhone 13 Pro, and a digital camera, Nikon Z5, evaluating their performance not only from a metric point of view, but also from a methodological point of view and the subsequent sharing of models in accessible digital environments. The conducted study therefore initiates a process of memory digitisation in order to create a digital platform in which to insert, in an organised and digitised manner, models, data, historical morphological information, material, documentary, etc., in order to make interaction with the virtual reconstructions possible, promoting a new accessibility, all this to test, standardise and define a possible working protocol for massive low-cost 3D artefacts acquisition.

In recent years, the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) is undertaking actions to promote and disseminate its historical archival and material heritage, both with onsite events and with digital tools and platforms dedicated to its digital museum. One of its most important collections is the Curioni’s one (1860–1887). It preserves reproductions of building structures used as teaching aids in the teaching of Construction Science. We are now working on the digitisation project of those artefacts, and we propose a study on the data management protocol structured to satisfy the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-Usable). In fact, with the purpose of sharing and enhancing its materials, the Politecnico promotes the digitisation of its entire collection of Curioni’s models, to create a new section of its virtual museum. To this extent, one goal of our research is to foster the accessibility of this tangible heritage in the digital domain. In accordance with the Italian national digitisation plan, PND, we defined a Digital Management Plan for the cultural heritage products, DMP, to guarantee FAIR principles in sharing 3D digital artefacts of the Curioni’s collection. The DMP originated as public administration data management, but the result of this study demonstrates its usefulness also for digital cultural data management.