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The relationship between architectural expressiveness and structural design is a fundamental topic of the Postwar Italian debate. As part of this topic, the bay is the conceptual device that regulates the relationship between constructive elements. In this sense, the paper investigates Glauco Gresleri’s design for the OM complex in San Lazzaro di Savena (1962–65). In the concept this hangar Gresleri deals with the typological-structural issue, concerning the construction of the “hall”. The architectural challenge is to cover a structural span of 60 metres through the structural type of the reinforced concrete portal frame with a prestressed rafter. This paper investigates this architectural work focusing on two aspects. Firstly, it tackles the innovation used by Gresleri’s design through a comparison with the theory behind the so-called “concezione strutturale”, with particular reference to the authors who deal with the issue of the construction of a “hall” type applied to industrial architectures. Secondly, it focuses on the tendency to transform the constructive mechanism of the bay to an integrated device that tackles the issue of the skylight, water drainage and ventilation system. This double reading has the goal to understand Gresleri’s important innovation, to prove the significant progress embodied by the architect’s work to the technological and architectural culture of Postwar Italy.

The paper analyses the debate in Sicily on the construction of the monumental colonnaded porticoes that characterise the facades of public edifices built on the island from the post- Unification period to the Fascist regime. The pronao of the Massimo Theatre in Palermo (from 1875) marks the climax of a cultural movement, which, for almost a century, was to associate the neo-Greek style with public buildings and the material of choice of Sicily’s church building tradition in a deterministic manner. Calcarenite was used to build the peristyles of the temples of the archaic and classical age, with imposing, tapered and grooved columns consisting of overlapping sections. In the Fascist period, and in the age of reinforced concrete buildings, the construction of the Court House in Messina (from 1923) became a topic of discussion in the debate at national level. The subsequent use of local materials, some of which of more recent extraction and processing, together with reinforced concrete, contributed to distorting the “archaeological” style of the initial projects sponsored by local authorities, towards modern and abstract compositions, as in the case of the construction of the Post Office Building in Palermo (from 1933), or towards compromise solutions, as in the case of the Court House in Catania (from 1937). The solutions investigated in any case required engineering and technological advances to allow the buildings to achieve a new monumental scale.

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Project management standards are gradually moving to the direction where increasingly attention is put on cooperation and collaboration methods between different players involved in construction operation. Construction professionals and other experts i.e. in academia agree widely that this is essential. Construction business and its operations in general have not been isolated from the long term developments in different sectors such as outsourcing where core businesses is valued high and other operations are cut away. This has resulted in high number of specialized companies that on the other hand has increased the total number of partners in any kind of construction project.From the management viewpoint this is a different challenge and it has naturally provided the starting point for new kind of managerial tools and solutions. This paper provides discussion of the characteristics of modern construction and those as starting points for the development of new kind of construction management methods and tools.

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