Management protocol in the building reconstruction process: the case study of the 16th Century Castle in L'Aquila

In recent years, the construction industry has witnessed a substantial re-evaluation of the way in which all phases of the building process are managed and controlled, particularly the executive phase, thanks in part to the development of innovative technological and computerised tools, in response to the needs of increasingly demanding clients, both public and private, and to the rapid evolution of regulations, which are linked to increasingly evolved concepts of comfort and safety in buildings. This has an impact on the need for designers and contractors to innovate their modus operandi, through better organisation of the work carried out and the adoption of procedures to ensure the quality of the services provided, where there is less and less chance of making mistakes, which would entail losses of an economic and time-related nature. In the case of the construction process, since the construction site is a unicum in terms of both production and organisation, which escapes any simplistic standardisation, the operational control of management, understood as production efficiency, organisation and management of the construction site, can be validly conducted in parallel with the implementation of BIM methodologies and tools to support Construction Management. These concepts find concrete application in the post-earthquake consolidation and restoration site of a portion of the 16th-century castle in L'Aquila, for which the planning and control process in the digital environment was developed in parallel with the actual execution of the work, since the site was started in the traditional way, with the aim of verifying the deviations between the ideal and actual construction process.