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In Italy, a frequent approach to building maintenance is—for evident cost reasons—to operate following an occurred fault; from this point of view, the opportunity to design a database containing structured information on building's state of conservation is still a long way off. The paper focuses on an application to a real case study and leads to a methodological proposal for the construction of a spatialized model that shows the maintenance condition on an urban scale. The model is implemented in several steps, from a visual investigation (perception) and subsequent in-depth studies (surveys), to the definition of a spatialised synthetic data. After explaining the methodology, i.e. the definition of indicators, parameters and weights, the paper focuses on the specific case study to achieve a result as replicable as possible, highlighting any critical areas of the process.
Matteo Del Giudice; Rachele Grosso; Umberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Francesco Prizzon; Manuala Rebaudengo. The Maintenance Representation: Research and Applications, Mixing UAV and Digital Models. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 707 -735.
AMA StyleMatteo Del Giudice, Rachele Grosso, Umberto Mecca, Giuseppe Moglia, Francesco Prizzon, Manuala Rebaudengo. The Maintenance Representation: Research and Applications, Mixing UAV and Digital Models. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():707-735.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMatteo Del Giudice; Rachele Grosso; Umberto Mecca; Giuseppe Moglia; Francesco Prizzon; Manuala Rebaudengo. 2021. "The Maintenance Representation: Research and Applications, Mixing UAV and Digital Models." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 707-735.
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.