Abstract
Nowadays, the management of existing historical military buildings has acquired paramount importance since, assessing the complexity and the significance of its inheritance, military strategies and standards have been changed, and structures have to be updated to meet current safety, energy, and functional needs. In Sardinia (Italy), an island characterized by a high number of historical military buildings and highly affected by the negative aspects of insularity, such as high costs for the supply of materials and energy, the development of sustainable strategies for the management of these buildings, not rarely underutilized or even abandoned, can represent an opportunity to meet current military standards and needs containing public expenses and reducing the environmental impact and additional use of land. The paper proposes an interdisciplinary approach specifically designed for the sustainable management and reuse of this historical military heritage. The proposed methodology emphasizes the aspect of structural safety, combining it with aspects related to conservation and restoration. Starting from the study of indirect sources and the acquisition of geometric/material/structural data using direct analysis and surveys, the protocol identifies a set of descriptors that defines the current condition of the building from both safety and conservation views. At the end of the process of knowledge, the index of priority of intervention is defined considering the overall state of conservation, use, and structural efficiency, to highlight the degree of urgency of the conservation or transformation/reuse processes and allow the sustainable planning of interventions on military real estate assets. The application to a case study is presented and discussed. The interdisciplinary approach has been developed within the research project IMASS-CHAIN (Infrastructure Management Support System CHAIN).
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Notes
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The project has been developed and co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Defence, with resources from the National Military Research Plan 2020. See the acknowledgements for more info.
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Infrastructure management involves three hierarchical levels, summarised in the directive GEN G-001 as follows: Responsible Apex Commands, Technical bodies of Armed Force, Engineer executive bodies.
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The analysis is based on the cases study investigated and from some publications specifically concerning the national Armed Forces (Donesana 1875; Rocchi 1908, Rocchi 2010; Melis 1939; Geniodife 1991; Cassi 1996; FStorelliFTurri2014; Fiorino & Vargiu 2023) and Armed Force directives such as the Direttiva S.M.E. Ispettorato dell'Arma del Genio, Pub. n. 6252 D.T. n.1 - Direttive per la Progettazione di accasermamenti, Roma, 26.11.1980.
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The project has been developed and co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Defence, with resources from the National Military Research Plan 2020. See the acknowledgements for more info.
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Pursuant to art. 333, c. 8 of the Code of Military Order.
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The research is included in the three-year research project entitled IMASS- CHAIN - Infrastructure Management Support System Chain, co-funded at 50% under the National Military Research Plan 2020 (CIG: 884399685F - CUP: D84H22001380001) by the General Secretariat of the Difesa/DNA and contract execution mandate to the Directorate of Works and State Property (GENIODIFE). The leader partner is the University of Cagliari with coordination of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR) (PI. Prof. Donatella Rita Fiorino), in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (DMI). Partner: Fosslab S.r.l./Leonardo S.p.A. Start of the project 01.12.2022. Moreover, the study is included in the framework of the Collaboration Agreement between the University of Cagliari and the Italian Ministry of Defence, specifically dedicated to the cooperation in the field of the redevelopment of military areas, signed on 19.09.2023 and still in force (scientific coordinator Donatella Rita Fiorino for the University of Cagliari and col. Pasqualino Iannotti for the Ministry of Defence - GENIODIFE).
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Pilia, E., Concu, G., Fiorino, D.R., Reccia, E., Meloni, D. (2024). Relevance of Structural Conditions in the Sustainable Management and Reuse of Historical Military Buildings: An Interdisciplinary Approach. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Taniar, D., C. Rocha, A.M.A., Faginas Lago, M.N. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14822. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65318-6_28
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