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Beyond Lessons Learned: Opportunities and Challenges for Interplay Between Knowledge Management, Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age
No full textThe sustainability report in the the NPOs. An innovative model
No full textThe growing attention toward sustainability report pushed companies, private and public as well, to adopt instruments able to rate sustainability and environmental impact. Many tools can be used to evaluate social communication but the sustainability report is the most complete to explore, measure, understand and communicate the results under this aspect. Through the sustainability report is possible to supply a balanced vision of the sustainability performance of an organization and to understand all the positive and negative effects generated running the activity. To report the activity NPOs as well, has to disclose results and their connection with the surrounding community as social, environmental and economic impact. The voluntary disclosure of Triple Bottom Line information through proper tools, as the sustainability report, The sector vision of the environmental and social report, differently from the sustainability report, does not allow a complete disclosure on social and environmental activity carried on by the companies. Consequently is not fully represented the impact of these activities on the community. Nowadays NPOs use framework, which partially represent the sustainability activities. NPOs as well as for profit organizations have to introduce new reports keen to fill the information necessity of the stakeholder
Overcoming Organizational Tensions in a Knowledge Way: The Experience of Smart Working in the Public Sector - A New Way of Conceiving and Using Technology
No full textTowards a Heritage Digital Guidelines in Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM)
No full textThe requirements of building sustainability and the use of information technologies have led to the new vision of continuum building design that considers each stage of a building’s life cycle, including the recovery and up-cycling of materials and building components according to the circular economy models. Continuum building design promotes planned preventive maintenance (PPM) and moves away from the current emergency acting on assets compromised by serious pathologies. It allows the optimisation of time and resources and the durability of interventions through sustainable and effective practices. The paper presents the preliminary results of a research activity aimed at identifying and validating guidelines for architectural heritage conservation through the development of an open knowledge platform to dissemination of the best practices currently available. The main goals are promoting preventive and planned maintenance as the main strategy of conservation of the building heritage and overcoming the fragmentation and scarcity of reliable information of scientific and technical literature for diagnostics, interventions and durability monitoring. The guidelines will cover all stagesof the conservation process, from the preliminary phase of knowledge of the building. Moreover, type, extent and cause of degradation will be identified, including their resolution or at least their decrease according to the criterion of minimum intervention and maximum effectiveness with the lowest cost and the lowest environmental impact using sustainable and compatible products. The guidelines of the open digital platform will be identified through the study and critical analysis of interventions on monuments belonging to Italian historical heritage. The monuments chosen as case studies have been affected by various forms of degradation, in many cases triggered by the presence of rising damp. This latter one has been stopped using an already verified economical and sustainable device that uses charge neutralization technology CNT-Domodry®. The research provides for the initial activity of identification of digital standardization protocol, information cataloguing and metadata in order to achieve the final comparison of interventions and the consequent identification of best practices. The cataloguing rules of the ICCD and the digital platform for risk assessment of heritage of the ICR have been taken as a reference. Future developments of the research project will consist in the acquisition and critical processing of information on relevant number of case studies in order to have scientific evidence to proceed toward a Heritage Digital Guidelines in PPM
The Role of Social Impact Evaluation in Megaprojects: Reviewing Literature and Analysing Implications from a Managerial Perspective
No full textNew scenarios of integration between building circular design and heritage materials valorisation
No full textDurability, adaptability, and reduction and valorization of waste are the main goal of the European guidelines on circular design of building. These objectives impose a real paradigm shift in design from the current on-ff logic to a continuum building design that includes preventive and planned maintenance, deconstruction design, selective demolition and up-cycling of materials and building components. In circular design, building is conceived as an organic whole of functional parts, which in turn can be broken down into construction materials. The integrated methodology of BIM and the Material Passport (BIM-MP) is the emerging digital tool both in the perspective of circular design and in the context of the sustainability of heritage conservation interventions.
The digitalization of information with the support of BIM-MP tool enables the creation a digital passport for the construction and for single materials. It allows the construction modelling at different scales of detail, from individual components down to materials. The digital passport reports as generalities the initial performance characteristics and updates them during the whole life cycle by making "visas" that indicate transformations and variations of functions and performances. It gives an identity to each component of the construction, which at the end of its life becomes a repository of materials, opening urban mining scenarios that safeguard natural resources and reduce the amount of demolition waste. The provision of a compulsory Digital Product Passport in the European Union for building materials according to the recent Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulation will foster the development and adoption of the BIM-MP methodology
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