2020

Dealing with maintenance activities in complex systems often configures the so-called management ...of change (MoC). MoC is a process for evaluating and controlling modifications to facility design, operation, organization, or activities—prior to implementation—to be sure no new hazards are introduced. Traditionally, MoC is related to technical changes. Safety implications from organizational changes have recently led to proposed integrated management of both types.

The production, storage and transportation of hydrocarbons involve risks of environmental polluti...on. The goal was to characterize the pollution by hydrocarbons, caused by the operations of the Fuel Commercializing Company of Villa Clara (ECCVC, in advanced), on the different environmental recipients. Four comprehensively geographical strata were established on the research area.

This work presents a project of hi-tech and supergreen ‘nZEB casale’ in Italy. The ‘nZEB casale’ ...is located in Matera, in the south of Italy. The project concerns the renovation of a medieval ‘casale’, a group of rural houses for residential use.

The Paris Agreement on climate change signed during the recent XXI United Nations Convention gener...ates further incentives towards sustainable development.

Building geometry, urban morphology and local climate are crucial aspects to optimize the energy ...performance of buildings at neighborhoods scale. In addition, urban form is a key parameter in modifying solar availability in densely built-up areas.

For many years, the European Union has been designing and constantly reformulating various energy... policies for the reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions in order to contain the effects of climate change.

With a growing awareness around the importance of the optimization of building efficiency, being ...able to make accurate predictions of building energy demand is an invalu¬able asset for practitioners and designers.

The contribution is part of a broader research aimed at defining analysis tools and languages bas...ed on codes of representation capable of describing the quality and well-being of cities, particularly within the current declensions and definitions of the term "resilience". Here are presented considerations on urban surveying and the preparation of a complex information system for graphic analysis in particular unconsolidated contexts of the city.

The concept of resilience applied to the city cannot ignore the specificities of places, a deep knowledge of the urban context, not only in its environmental, microclimatic and structural aspects, but also in its morphological and morphogenetic ones. The places of resilience are those places that in continuous change admit a rethinking.

Il saggio discute il ruolo dell'architettura nei processi di trasformazione dello spazio politico... sabaudo da comitato a ducato (1416), con particolare attenzione alle strutture nei territori a sud delle Alpi: vengono sviluppati approfondimenti sul rilievo geopolitico dei cantieri, sulla selezione dei modelli (castrali e palaziali, nel quadro della dimensione europea del problema) e sulle eventuali prerogative "ducali" degli interventi di inizio Quattrocento.