Full Professor of Building Production, chair professor of Design and Technological Innovation, Acting Chancellor for the Far East Polytechnic University of Milan. Member of the sustainability commission of the Steel Promotion Foundation - (Photo by A. Avezzù)
Dry construction
The world of construction has recently experienced a rapid evolution which is an actual “Copernican revolution” thanks to Building Information Modeling (BIM). This change in paradigm concerns every aspect of building production: Project, Product and Process, and is increasingly replacing, in an...
Façades, Sandwich Panel
The building envelope, also known as the building skin, is the barrier that separates us from the "micro-cosmos" of the indoor, residential core, and the "macro-cosmos" of the outdoor environment, nature or the city that surrounds us.
This limes is crucial because it defines and controls a multiple...
Dry construction
A building’s façade plays a very important role in the entire construction organism. It defines the border between the layers or the innermost membranes and the outdoor environment with all its climatic forces: wind, ice, sun, etc.
Dry construction
The cities that we live in today are the result of town planning that is the mirror of post-industrial and mechanical society, where “zoning” (the division of the city into the historical centre, residential suburbs, tertiary zones, production zones, etc.) reflects its economic principle much like...
Until just recently, “cognitive buildings” that can provide users with information and data seemed science fiction or linked to complex home automation systems and high costs, available only to a select group of people. In truth, nowadays we can see that these “communication and information”...
