Forensic engineering for construction
This work focuses on forensic engineering, linked to the design, construction and management of buildings. Setting in which, with increasing frequency, disputes emerge for the consequences of errors during ideational, realization or management processes. In particular, in the construction field, forensic engineering is responsible for understanding, on the basis of the final result of an event (a fire, a collapse of a building or the loss of functionality of buildings or parts of these), as the error (one or more) that led to this outcome and who can be attributed this responsibility has occurred. The manual, with a practical and application cut, describes the techniques and methods of investigation to be used in situations in which the forensic engineer is called to operate: fires, vices and discrepancy of the building works, collapses and instability. There is no lack of analysis relating to the economic assessments of the assets subject to investigation, the regulatory profiles and responsibility of the forensic engineer. The book also contains a guide for the calculation of fees and, in the appendix, the guidelines to be applied for perital operations in the CTU and a collection of models and support documents for the activity. Marco D’Orazio, full professor of technical architecture at the Polytechnic University of Marche. Engineer, architect and research doctor in building engineering, is pro-pro-report vicar of the Polytechnic University of the Marche. He is president of national technical commissions (UNI) and a member of technical commissions at the European level (CEN). He has gained specific experiences in the field both private and public in the field of litigation in buildings. The chair of forensic engineering at the University of belonging has been held since 2015. Giovanni Zampini, lawyer, is a associate professor of Labor Law at the Polytechnic University of the Marche. Since 2021 he has been delegated by the Rector for the legal aspects of the construction and has gained specific experiences in the field. Gianluca Maracchini, construction engineer-architect and research doctor in civil engineering, building, architecture. Since 2017 he has carried out teaching and research activities at the Polytechnic University of Marche where he has gained specific experiences in the field.
